Handling Methyl Iodide safely

Methyl Iodide is used as an intermediate in the manufacture of some pharmaceuticals and pesticides, in methylation processes, and in the field of microscopy.

It ranks amongst the chemicals highly toxic to humans and is normally handled only with the most extreme personal protective equipment (PPE). If you manufacture or handle this chemical the cost of keeping your workforce safe, as well as conscientiously disposing of containers is huge, unless a solution can be found to increase worker safety and use returnable containers.

IPI brings you the safest solutions for the packaging, dispensing, transfer and storage of the most hazardous chemicals, including Methyl Iodide. We supply many of the market leading producers of this chemical with a closed transfer pack comprising of stainless steel KEG container and stainless steel MAV closed transfer system, acknowledged as the industry standard.

Vinyl Kft in Hungary are the only manufacturers of Methyl Iodide in Europe and they have been using the IPI closed loop transfer pack for 10 years. Mr. Ferenc Bajusz, Managing Director of the company, told us “The KEG and MAV system supplied by IPI Global Ltd. is applied in the production and logistics of Methyl Iodide manufactured by Vinyl Kft for several years without any issues. The closed system allows us to meet the SCC prescription and safety, and environmental protection rules at manufacturing, logistic and customer’s end use, too. The application of multi-way containers is the right way to keep environmental effects like waste container disposal as low as possible.”

By implementing the IPI closed transfer pack, Vinyl have been able to meet all their required safety standards, as well as providing a more cost-effective and environmentally sustainable solution for their customers. To learn more about how Vinyl use our closed loop transfer pack, see this video or contact us for more information.