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Regardless of your industry, HOSO is an ideal packaging partner if your product requires unique or unusual packaging needs.

  • Custom Packaging for Energy Equipment 
  •  Electrical Equipment Packaging
  • Custom Industrial Packaging for Heavy Duty Materials
  • Aerospace and Defence Packaging
  • Engine & Component Packaging
  • Industrial Paper/Fabrics/Film Packaging

Wooden Drums

Nailed drums are intended as packaging material for wire, cable,
rope, and other similar products. Flange thickness, Arbor hole, cable
slot (start hole), and drive pin hole can be tailored to meet your
specific requirements.

Wooden drum heads are laminated lumber of two- to four- ply.
Barrel staves are machine-cut to the required curvature and

thickness. Drums are bored to customers’ specifications for drive, tie-
off and start holes.

Flange

Softwood

  • Spruce, Pine
  • Thickness: 1” to 5”
  • Diameter: 24” to 100” or larger (others as requested)

Hardwood

  • Jungle wood, Babool, Neem (As per demand)
  • Thickness: 1” to 5”
  • Diameter: 24” to 100” or larger (others as requested)

Barrels

Softwood

  • Moulded to provide maximum strength
    and surface smoothness
  • Diameter: from 8” to 90”
  • Length: any length from 6” traverse to 60”
    traverse (others as requested)

Hardwood

  • Made of three-ply hardwood plywood for
    weights up to 500 Kgs

Fastners

  • Hex-head bolts and nuts: 5/16” diameter
    to 3⁄4 “diameter
  • Flat washers are standard above 50” flange diameter

  • Cup-washers are standard up to 50”
    flange diameter

Arbor Reinforcements

Available in most standard arbor hole sizes

  • Tubular ferrules
  • Lightweight bolted extruded plates
  • Heavy-duty welded plates

Center supports and drum heads

  • One or more center supports can be located along the traverse to support the center of the traverse.
  • Drum heads are nailed to the flanges to support the stave ends and add support for heavy loads

Nails

  • Flanges are nailed in uniform patterns with heads recessed
    below the product-bearing surface. Nail points are clinched
    back into the wood to achieve a mechanical lock.

Ideal For

  • Power transmission, control and distribution
  • Telecommunications (wired, wireless, satellite and CATV)
  • Commercial and industrial buildings
  • Elevator cables
  • Infrastructure (wire rope, cable and conduit)
  • Oil, gas and marine