Whatever you require some additional storage for; you should be able to find a storage container that is appropriate. Whether you are storing food and drink, household items or all of your worldly possessions, there are many different storage containers available for hire and for purchase.

Storage containers are made from reinforced steel so they are completely secure and very hardwearing. You won’t need to worry about your items being damaged when they are inside a storage container. Equally, should you need to ship your storage container anywhere; you will be able to move it without any of the items inside the container becoming damaged because it the container is so secure.

Each storage container can be personalised to handle whatever you need to hold inside. If you are holding food and drink, you will need to keep the storage container at a particular temperature. Similarly, you can also sub divide your storage container so that you can keep each type of food separate from each other.

Once you have finished your storage container, you can either give it back or you can use it for another purpose. You will need to determine how often you are going to be using it before you decide to buy or rent it.

If you have been looking into hiring a refrigerated container or as they are sometimes more commonly referred to as portable cold storage units then you have come to the right place. Whatever reason you are hiring a portable cold storage unit for whether it is for a catering company, a festival that you are working at or for transporting a large amount of goods that needs to be kept cold, you will find that there is a wide range available to you.

Refrigerated containers come in both chilled and frozen models so you can hire whichever kind you require. They are perfectly suited and come up the standards expected for transporting food goods which is why so many food companies are choosing to use refrigerated containers to transport their produce far and wide.

You can either hire or purchase a refrigerated container, depending on how many times you are going to use and it and where you are going to store it as well as they are rather large containers. Your goods will be perfectly safe once they have been stored in side and the container is kept cool using electricity and can be kept at varying temperatures between +25 and -25 degrees Celsius.

Shipping containers are very useful as they help to transport goods from one location to another. They are large containers and can be made from a variety of different materials. There are many types of shipping containers and they are also designed differently to suit and accommodate different products. They are available in different weights and sizes as well. The length of a shipping container can vary from 10 feet to 40 feet. Their width is usually 8 feet and height varies from anywhere between 8.5 feet to 9.5 feet.

There are three things to be considered before selecting a shipping container. The first thing to be considered is the container’s rating. Rating simply means the maximum weight permitted for the container. The second thing to be considered is the container’s tare weight or tare mass. This implies the empty weight of the container. Finally, payload – that implies the total weight that the container can carry. Usually, you would find stickers on a shipping container that informs you of its tare weight, rating and payload.

A shipping container can also be classified into one of two groups. The first group is the general purpose and dry cargo container. They are the most commonly used containers in industry. They are strong and waterproof. The second group are special cargo containers. They are containers used for transporting different chemicals and also thermal containers that are usually used for transporting goods like fruit, meat etc.

Scientific research has been put to commercial use which has made our life better in many ways. Refrigeration alone has been put to use in several different ways by people throughout the world. We often think refrigeration is limited to our fridges and air conditioners. But the fact is that refrigeration is used by industry to meet several demands.

One largely unknown use of refrigeration is the use of refrigerated containers for transporting food materials. Have you ever thought about how you get the food items that are not grown in your part of the country? Today vegetables and meat of every variety is available at a store near your home.

The food items are brought to the stores from different parts of the world. Refrigerated containers have made it possible to make everything available to you irrespective of your location. Refrigerated containers are used not only for transporting goods from one location to another but also for keeping the food items in good shape.

Thus you can find a type of summer vegetable at your local shop any time of the year. Refrigerated containers are available in different dimensions, with the standard size being 40 feet by 20 feet. The refrigerated containers allow the internal temperature to be kept anywhere between +25 degree to -25 degrees which allows storing of any material, be it ice cream or beans.

When considering where to place you storage container there are many issues which you will have to consider before the actual structure can be positioned. Here at Boxtainer we are dedicated to providing you with the best possible advise to enable you to get the positioning and layout exactly right.

One question which is raised time and time again is whether or not you should place anything below the storage container for it to rest on and how that will affect the functionality of it.

The first thing to mention whilst answering this is to state a fairly obvious fact, and that is that ideally the container must be placed on a level surface. There are numerous reasons for this, the most important however is that if this does not occur then you may experience problems opening and closing the doors of the container. This potentially could cause untold amount of frustration and therefore it is advisable that this is avoided by making sure that the surface on which the container will rest is level.

Paving slabs or sleepers are excellent at solving the problem of an uneven surface, these are ideal for placing below the structure and will eradicate the problems highlighted above.

Although it is the customers responsibility to ensure that the surface is flat, we are of course always available to listen to any of your container related queries, and will provide sound advice to ensure that you have every eventuality covered.