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Ultra-pure & high-purity HDPE drum packaging — engineered and manufactured in Maumee, Ohio 419-897-9110
The Company

Employee-owned. Purpose-built. Maumee, Ohio.

U.S. COEXCELL Inc. is an employee-owned manufacturer of ultra-pure and high-purity HDPE drums. Everything we ship is molded, finished, tested, and documented in one purpose-built facility — by people who own the company that makes it.

COEXCELL manufacturing facility exterior in Maumee, Ohio, with the U.S. flag at the entrance
640 Mingo Dr — Maumee, OH
At a Glance

Four facts about the company.

2021

Purpose-built facility

55 gal

Drum capacity (208 L)

ISO 9001

Certified QMS

Since 1993

Engineering drums for critical applications

What We Make

Drums for the chemistries that punish shortcuts.

COEXCELL blow-molds tri-layer 55 gal (208 L) HDPE drums for semiconductor and electronic wet chemicals, specialty and industrial chemistries, and food and beverage processing. Five models, each certified with its exact markings and documented per configuration.

Full specifications live on each model page.

Employee Ownership

The person testing your drum owns the company.

Employee ownership isn't a slogan on our logo — it's how the plant runs. The technicians running particle counts, the operators on the molding line, and the team loading your trailer hold a stake in whether every drum leaves here right. Accountability isn't assigned; it's owned.

What it looks like for customers

Consistent quality checks, people who stay long enough to know your requirements, and a plant where "good enough" has no constituency.

Part of a wider group

COEXCELL is part of an employee-owned group of American packaging manufacturers.

Gowned technician drawing a liquid particle count sample from a drum
An owner, testing your drum — Maumee, OH
Our History

Company History

1993

COEXCELL begins producing engineered tri-layer HDPE drums

How
The company builds its early reputation on coextrusion blow molding — isolating colorants and stabilizers away from the product-contact layer.
1996

First high-purity drum for the electronic wet chemical market

How
COEXCELL introduces its first high-purity tri-layer drum for semiconductor and electronic wet chemical service — the beginning of the IC55UP and C55UP product lines.
2021

A facility purpose-built for purity

How
Coexcell adds a new blow-molding machine and introduces the K55 model. Updated blow-molding controls offer several advantages: continuous extrusion and monitoring allow for more precise parison control, less variation from drum to drum, and better layer control.
Today

Five models, one standard

How
An ISO 9001-certified, employee-owned operation shipping ultra-pure, high-purity, and nestable drums — every certification stated per model and configuration.
The Plant

Built so nothing critical leaves the building.

Resin arrives by rail; finished, tested, documented drums leave by trailer. Everything between happens under one roof.

Railcars of HDPE resin at COEXCELL's dedicated unloading stations
Rail-Served Resin

HDPE resin arrives at dedicated unloading stations in our railyard and transfers to storage.

Overhead view of the automated blow-molding line
Automated Molding

Tri-layer coextrusion on automated blow-molding lines with robotic drum handling.

Drums moving through the enclosed Class 1000 clean-room finishing area
Clean-Room Finishing

Post-forming finishing in a Class 1000 clean-room environment with recorded air-quality readings.

Liquid particle count verification in the Class 100 laboratory
In-House Testing

Class 100 LPC laboratory, UN drop testing, hydrostatic and leak checks, wall-thickness verification.

Sustainability

Sustainability you can weigh and count.

No slogans here — practices with numbers and documents behind them.

Environmental Policy

A published Sustainability & Environmental Policy governs how we operate.

Recyclable Products

Recyclable HDPE construction across the drum lineup — stated as a material fact, not a marketing claim.

Reusable Packaging

The N55 system is designed for multiple reuse cycles, lowering per-trip cost and per-trip footprint together.

Transportation Efficiency

Conical nesting fits approximately 728 empty N55 drums in a 53-ft trailer — fewer trucks moving air.

Read the full sustainability story

How We Talk About Our Drums

We publish what we can prove.

Buyers in our markets write qualification paperwork for a living. So our documentation standard is built to match theirs:

Exact markings, never generalizations.

A certification is stated with its embossed marking, per model and configuration — an approval for one is never extended to another.

Evidence per configuration.

Certification documents, technical data sheets, and test summaries accompany the specific drum you qualify, not the product line in general.

Plain measurements.

U.S. units first with metric in parentheses, named test methods, and specifications published as page text your team — and your tools — can read directly.

Work With Us

Build drums. Own the company that makes them.

We hire people who want a stake in the quality of their own work — on the molding line, in the lab, and in the office.

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