Turning “Rock‑Hard”Palm Oil into “Flowing Gold”

LET Flexitank + Open type Steam Heating Pad – Solving Global Bulk Transport Challenges

Imagine this: you have just shipped a container of palm oil to a port in a temperate country. Your customer goes to unload it – only to find the entire mass of oil as hard as a rock. It won’t pump, it won’t flow. The options are either to heat the whole container on site or send it back to a warehouse for thawing. Time, money, and reputation all melt away.

This is the nightmare that palm oil exporters face every day. Palm oil is solid at room temperature. Traditional packaging – steel drums, IBCs – is not only slow and expensive, but also fails to solve the fundamental problem: “how to make it flow at the last mile.” What you really need is not another type of container, but an integrated transport solution that keeps palm oil worry‑free from solid to liquid, from origin to destination.

LET Flexitank + Open type Steam Heating Pad is exactly that solution. A standard 20ft container, fitted with a food‑grade flexitank and a steam heating pad beneath it – you can safely load 20–24 tonnes of palm oil. Upon arrival, connect to the discharge point’s steam station, and the solid oil is gently heated at 2°C per hour until it becomes a clear, pump-able liquid. Lower cost, simpler operation, excellent adaptability, and fully compliant with the latest regulations for edible oil bulk transport. Hundreds of oil exporters worldwide are already using this system to turn “solid headaches” into “liquid profits.”

Can Palm Oil Be Transported Using LET Flexitank + Open type Steam Heating Pad?

Yes, absolutely. The combination of LET Flexitank and an Open type Steam Heating Pad is specifically designed for bulk transport of fats and oils that tend to solidify at ambient temperatures – palm oil being a prime example.

- LET Flexitank: A single-use liquid transport bag installed inside a standard 20ft container. Made from food‑grade PE and a robust outer layer, it holds 20–26 m³ (approx. 20–24 tonnes) of palm oil. It has been widely used for palm oil, soybean oil, and other vegetable oils in global trade.

- Open type Steam Heating Pad: Designed to solve the solidification problem. It is placed under the flexitank. At destination, simply connect it to the site’s steam station; low‑pressure steam gently and evenly heats the solid palm oil, turning it back into a liquid for smooth discharge.

Technical Core: Specifications of the Open type Steam Heating Pad

To ensure safe and controllable heating, the LET open steam heating pad uses the following parameters:

Why 2°C/h?

At this rate, raising palm oil from a typical solid state (e.g. 20°C) to above its melting point (approx. 27°C) takes about 3–4 hours. This gentle heating avoids local overheating that could damage the flexitank or degrade oil quality, while still fitting well within normal port or warehouse discharge schedules.

Why steam pressure ≤ 0.2 MPa?  

Low‑pressure steam is readily available at most port steam stations. It keeps equipment costs low, is inherently safer, and does not require high‑pressure piping or special operating licenses – greatly reducing the entry barrier.

Why Choose LET Flexitank + Open type Steam Heating Pad?

For palm oil exporters, the core logistics challenge is no longer just capacity or freight cost – it is how to reliably deliver solid fats in different climates and facility conditions around the world. The combination of LET Flexitank and an open steam heating pad provides a proven industrial solution:

- Use standard 20ft containers for high‑volume loading.

- Use a flexitank to cut packaging and return logistics costs.

- Use a steam station (≤0.2 MPa) and a 2°C/h gentle heating rate to turn solid palm oil back into a liquid “oil spring” at destination.

This solution is economical, dependable, and fully compliant with the latest bulk edible oil transport regulations. If you are looking for a way to truly solve the “last‑mile solidification” headache, LET Flexitank + Open Steam Heating Pad is the answer.