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Smart Store by Hammarplast

Designer: Jörgen Hjördie

Type

box

Purpose

Storage

of small objects

Properties

Dustfree_keeper

Many plastic storage boxes have holes in them for holding them. But through the holes dust also enters and this makes the storage not dustfree. The Smart Store is completely closed and so ensures dustfree storage. Still they are easy to hold by the large upper rim.

Water_protector

The Smart Store provides some protection against water. As the lid is not waterprovely closed, water should not stand over the lid, and it will also not protect against high humidity, but it does protect against water drops falling on or against the box and a layer of water flowing around the box.

Cleanable

Accessable

Plastic storageboxes can not be made of flat plastic, as that would be not stiff enough or it would have to be very thick which would make it heavy and expensive. Therefor, the plastic has to be curved, that makes it stiffer. Most desigers make the curves such that it becomes unneccessarily difficult to reach all places for cleaning. Often, the outside, which is what gets dusty, is very difficult to clean. The Smart Store does not have this problem.

Smoothsurface

Stackinside

When empty, Smart Store boxes of the same size can be stack inside each other to save space. This can be useful when you don't need it, but also makes the box affordable, because it reduces cost of transport significantly.

Spacesaver

Plastic storageboxes that can be put inside each other must be wider at the top than at the bottom. So there will be some space next to the box that can not be used. For the Smart Store this lost space is kept to a minimum.

Freezeproof

mintemp=-40 C

Boilproof

maxtemp=+120 C

Foodsave

Affordable

European_product

Sizes

Many sizes are available. I have experience with only the following, because our local store has no other:

liter

8

liter

15

liter

31

liter

50

Materials

pp

pp is the abreviation for polypropylene. Polypropylene only consists of carbon and hydrogen atoms which give when completely combusted only carbondioxide and water, which are not poisenous. When not completely burned, carbonmonoxide will result, which is poisenous, but that problem occurs with any organic material and can not be prevented. Polypropylene is the most save plastic there is.