Folding boxes stack up

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Holland Container Innovations (HCI) is making progress with its 4FOLD folding container. With the 4FOLD design, four folded containers can b...

Waterborne coatings start to flow

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The past 12 months have seen considerable progress in efforts to introduce environment-friendly waterborne coatings into the container manuf...

Box builders face new reality

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On the face of it, business is virtually back to normal for the box building industry. Container demand is at a high level and manufacturers...

Container lessors bridging the gap

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Box demand has picked up strongly this year. With shipping lines severely cash-strapped, leasing companies are rushing to fill the gap....

Box builders take a break

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The production of standard dry freight boxes has come to a virtual halt in China as the global economic slowdown has seen orders dry up in t...

Enter Lotus Containers

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A new container leasing company, Lotus Containers Ltd, has been set up by Willem Dous, former marketing director of Capital Lease....

45ft SeaCell2 launched

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UK-based Container Group Technology (CGT) has unveiled a 45ft version of the SeaCell2 cellcompatible, palletwide container and licensed a se...

High utilisation rates buoy tank lessors

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While margins are still under pressure, a perennial problem faced by tank container leasing companies - poor fleet utilisation - has disappe...

CXIC adds tanks

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China will get its fifth volume tank container manufacturer at the end of this year when the CXIC Group launches production at a new plant i...

Box builders under the cosh

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Dry freight container production dropped by over 20 per cent last year and with even more capacity coming on stream, builders could have an ...

Dry freight box builders face new slump

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The dry freight container manufacturing industry is bracing itself for tougher times. Output has fallen sharply in recent months and pricing...

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