Storing huge amounts of chemicals in
factories has become the norm nowadays. As products are not only being
sold within the country but a majority of them is exported, the demand
is pressurizing factories to run round the clock. To meet the huge
demand of products it has become necessary to produce in thousands per
day, which is impossible without the availability of a huge stock of
supplies. But the news that rocked 2008 about a factory that caught fire
and took three lives in Wisconsin, United States clearly showed the
damages that can be done without proper storage facilities. The chemical
explosion in the Packaging Corporation took place in the chemical
storage area due to a leaking storage tank.
Storage tanks holding
sensitive chemicals are reported to leak very often because of the
chemical properties of the liquid it holds. Since the incident took
place and shocked the entire world because no one can dream of such an
inciden
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