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Why use shipping containers as retail units?

Shipping containers are strong, secure, easily converted and above all transportable and, if you remove one or both sides and infill with glass panels, you have the ideal shop front!

Folding canopies can be fitted as well as ramps. The interior of the shipping container can also be insulated and lined with plywood, melamine or plasterboard or/and painted and it’s transformed!

Shipping containers are easily connected to power via mains electricity and, once connected, the possibilities are endless. Shipping containers are actually perfect for any festivals, exhibitions and open air events.

May 2, 2012 at 2:41 am | Shipping Container |
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Shipping Containers could provide a bar at your festival

With festival season fast approaching, the final touches are being put together for the various events.

One area to look at is refreshments for those in attendance. So, with this in mind, it may be worth looking into container hire.

Shipping containers can be converted into a mobile bar for festivals, exhibitions and events.

Conversions like these have been used to serve food and drinks up and down the country for years.

May 1, 2012 at 3:50 am | Shipping Container |
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Container hire security

When it comes to hiring a container, it is important to know that it is safe and secure to prevent theft.

When using a container for self storage or static use, a padlock is generally seen as the most secure and user friendly way of keeping the container safe.

A small padlock can be fitted through the TIR catch, however, most storage units will have been fitted with a lockbox or cowl.

The lock box is a steel shroud that is welded to the right hand door and, when both doors are closed together, a lug in the left hand door fits through a slit on the back. This allows a larger padlock to be fitted which helps prevent any tampering to the padlock by thieves. Lock boxes can be bought as a separate item and fitted to any container.

April 30, 2012 at 1:43 am | Container Hire |
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Container hire is used in many industries and has many different uses

Nowadays, the uses of shipping containers are wide and varied, which is completely different to their original use of shipping of cargo.

These days containers can be seen across the country in business premises, recreational areas and even in back gardens.

With the containers being extremely strong and secure, they make ideal storage units. They can also be transported easily and by many different means.

Container hire is very popular because there are so many industries who have a need for it such as shipping, cold storage, general, construction site and warehouse storage. Additionally some containers can be modified for site accommodation units, housing, exhibition stands and a whole host of other things!

April 27, 2012 at 1:30 am | Container Hire |
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Shipping Container hire used for business storage needs

Whatever business you are involved in, offices will generate an enormous amount of paperwork.

Quite often, much of this needs to be stored for years due to Government regulations, as well as good housekeeping.

Filing cabinets and disused offices can only hold so much and, once at full capacity, this is where an archive container storage can come in handy.

If space is an issue then container hire is the answer for your businesses storage needs.

April 26, 2012 at 7:50 am | Shipping Container |
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Shipping Containers used as “playpod” in school playground

An old shipping container in the playground of St Keyna School in Keynsham, Somerset has turned into a must-have item for pupils.

The school have used shipping containers to convert into a “playpod” for the young children at the school.

Rob Sandel, deputy headteacher of St Keyna Primary School, said: “The introduction of the PlayPod has been a tremendously positive development for our school. Our children have really enjoyed the opportunities it has given them to get involved in a very wide variety of imaginative and creative play activities.

The brightly painted Playpod, which contains fun and colourful materials designed to encourage children to play outside, is on loan from Bath and North East Somerset Council.

April 25, 2012 at 12:23 pm | Shipping Container |
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