Shipping containers allow businesses and individuals around the world to store, move and otherwise manage their goods and belongings securely. Standard shipping containers are designed to be fairly modular, highly portable and robustly secure, making them a great fit for most item-handling purposes. However, some projects request far greater flexibility than a normal shipping container can provide. Flat pack shipping containers can help when standard storage containers become too cumbersome to use. The five major advantages that flat pack shipping containers bring to the table are covered below in detail to help you decide if they can meet your requirements: 1. Highly Portable These types of containers are extremely easy to handle. Although flat pack shipping containers are not necessarily designed to meet ISO international shipping standards, they are still exceptionally strong and sturdy once assembled. However, they weigh substantially less overall. This makes flat pack containers a great option for building sites and terrain with low weight tolerances. Flat pack containers come disassembled as parts that can later be put together in the place you want them. This makes it possible to take flat pack containers to sites that are otherwise inaccessible by the types of vehicles needed to deliver standard shipping containers. Owing to their ability to be broken down for transport, flat pack containers take up considerably less space while in transit. This translates to significantly reduced transportation fees and drastically improved flexibility in delivery choices. You can potentially deliver a small flat pack container to its destination using your own utility vehicle as the disassembled parts are usually reasonably sized to improve portability. 2. Easy to Assemble Putting a flat pack container together can take as little as an hour for two people to complete, depending on its assembled size. Placing your flat pack container's parts as close to its intended build site as possible can help you to put it together even faster. The actual assembly process involves first erecting the frame of the container and then slotting the panels in place for the container's walls and ceiling. Bolts join the container's frame and panels together to form a sturdy structure capable of standing up to the elements and protecting whatever you choose to keep inside. 3. Very Versatile Thanks to their inherent simplicity where transportation, assembly and utility are concerned, flat pack containers can be produced for a wide variety of purposes. The walls and fittings can be designed to better fit housing needs, combined structures and more. Flat pack containers can be joined to form much larger structures and compounds fit for long-term storage and housing purposes. The modularity of each individual container makes it possible to develop large structural designs of considerable complexity relatively easily. Linking kits can even make it possible to join multiple flat pack containers into a single unit, allowing you to make use of large spaces where full-sized container delivery is not possible. 4. Easy to Take Apart Ease of assembly takes center stage with flat pack containers, but ease of disassembly is just as important and useful. The same simple construction process you must follow to put your flat pack container together can be followed in reverse to disassemble it and prepare it for extraction from its current location. This simplifies the process of cleaning up temporary installations once work on a construction site has been completed and can come in handy for many other scenarios as well. 5. Works for Both Commercial and Domestic Projects Businesses looking to provide quick, stable and effective housing for multiple on-site laborers can turn to the use of flat pack containers to do so. These types of containers work very well for such projects, owing to their lower price points and standardised dimensions. Flat pack containers also grant organizations the freedom to configure and then reconfigure structural layouts on the fly. This makes it much easier for complex, dynamic project requirements to be met without much hassle or manpower. When used by businesses as secure, extendable storage solutions, these types of containers make it possible to keep storage structures on site, yet broken down and kept out of the way when not in use. For domestic users, flat pack containers offer both short-term and long-term utility for multiple purposes. Used as domestic storage space, these containers can be assembled quickly in a favorable position, serving the same purpose as a shed in your backyard or even functioning as an extension for your garage. These containers can also be transported once they have been filled up, making moving projects a possibility at far less expense than full-sized ISO-configuration shipping containers. Flat pack shipping containers differ quite a bit from standard storage containers, but they offer many of the same benefits to those who use them, with the added bonuses of extended portability and heightened adaptability. If you or your business are considering going the flat pack route with your next project, reach out to our team here at Topindus to learn how we can help.

In many countries, shipping container homes are quite popular among homebuyers for a sustainable lifestyle. These homes have now become the trendiest living space across the world. Thanks to modern architecture and design! Homes in some countries have been built with shipping containers as they are eco-friendlier and more affordable than traditional buildings. The concept is mostly preferred in Western countries and port cities where container homes are popular include, Cape Town, China, New York, and Tokyo. However, prefab container homes are making a strong presence in India as well. In India, such homes are established in a few places like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Jodhpur. There are multiple benefits if you go for a shipping container house. One of its most important key benefits is that it already comes with floors, walls, and a roof. You just need a good architect or a designer who will help you to customize your container home as per your requirement and combine multiple containers into a single dwelling. Due to increasing prices of building material, land shortages and environmental concerns, many people across the globe are looking for an alternative to the traditional bricks and mortar houses. And container homes are the most considerable housing concept they could ever have. Here are 5 reasons why container homes are so great: 1. Eco-friendly: Most of the people are yet unaware that the method used to manufacture cement, bricks and concrete is quite toxic to the environment. The structure of shipping container homes is made up of materials such as aluminum and steel, that can be easily recycled and does not harm the environment. If you build a container home, it needs very less concrete and that too just for its foundation. A major way to reduce the carbon footprint and save the mother Earth is through recycling. There are many things, including paper, glass, metals and plastic that can be easily recycled. However, when it comes to the shipping containers, the material used in its making could be recycled and is the best way to save the environment. In addition, these shipping container homes are movable and can be placed anywhere without harming nature and uprooting the trees. As compared to traditional buildings, it needs very less resources such as water and electricity for living. To turn the container home into an enviable eco-friendly home, one can do rainwater harvesting vegetable gardening. The shipping container homes are an answer to many of the problems related with home building and offer an eco-friendly approach to reusing existing materials. 2.Affordable: One of the major perks of buying container homes is that they are quite affordable. Depending on the requirements and material used, a container home will cost you less as compared to traditional homes. The elements used in making a shipping container home include a metal roof, exterior walls, and a metal frame that are cost savings. Buying a shipping container home will not only save your money but the time as well because these are built faster. On an average, the cost of constructing each unit in India is around Rs 5 lakhs. Moreover, if a person still wishes to build a traditional house, he needs to hire subcontractors for plumbing, painting, electrical and other works, ending up paying everyone separately for its construction. It is pertinent to mention that due to its less cost, many international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have used the concept of shipping container homes to provide such houses to the homeless poor. 3.Movable: The shipping container homes are portable and can be moved easily anywhere. This is a major advantage that no other housing concept enjoys. It is built off-site in a factory environment and assembled on the final destination where one wishes to live. If you love travelling and want to explore different places and seasons, these homes with modern architecture are perfect for you. The container homes are designed in such a way that resists harsh climatic conditions. A container house can last long up to 25 years and even more if maintained properly. If it is well fabricated and finalized at a factory then the time of its construction at site will be lesser and economical. 4.Safe: These high-end container homes are as safe as traditional homes. Due to their structural stability, they can bear heavy load and deal with extreme weather conditions and natural disasters such as earthquakes and storms. The shipping containers can resist high winds even when they are not bolted. A container house can handle strong winds having speed up to 100 mph, which makes it a better choice for people living in areas with extreme weather conditions. In the past, some countries had built such shipping container homes at times of natural disasters for the homeless and poor people.

Shipping container homes have been steadily becoming more and more popular as alternatives to traditional housing. They may look unappealing at first due to their hard, right angles lacking any trace of creativity on the part of the manufacturer, but they offer a lot more beyond their seemingly plain rectangular appearance. Here are just three advantages that you could get from what some people see as nothing more than an enormous steel box. Shipping container homes are built to last Shipping containers were originally designed to keep cargo intact while being transported over great distances. For this to become possible, cargo must always be protected from extreme weather and the other unforgiving conditions that are likely to be encountered during transit, such as bumpy roads and vehicular accidents. Containers therefore required the use of steel walls that are as much as four inches thick to make sure that whatever they held inside would be kept safe no matter how punishing the outside conditions were. The decision to use such thick, strong walls proved to be a sound one. Around the world today, thousands of shipping containers that have been discarded after they have spent years serving their original purpose are now fulfilling entirely new functions in various applications. This should leave no doubt in your mind that a home that began life as a shipping container, or even a container that has been used as a home after being delivered straight from the factory, is sure to be around for a very long time regardless of the climate in your area. A container home costs less than a traditional house Being plain and simple in appearance has one obvious benefit: lower cost. Because the main structure of what will constitute the house is already available, it will cost less overall than brick, steel, and all the other materials you will need to build a typical single-story home. There's no need for you to put the roof/ceiling, the walls, and the floor together because all these are delivered to you in one piece and essentially ready for occupancy. It is also because of that same simplicity that shipping containers present fewer problems for anyone looking to buy a new house. Because they are lower in price compared to traditional houses, the accompanying mortgage is lower as well, enabling homeowners to be debt-free much sooner. Finally, maintenance will also cost less compared to that of a traditional home. As typical shipping containers are designed to withstand the most punishing conditions, you will find yourself worrying less about factors that could put your home's structure at risk such as flooding and termites. They allow you to be creative This is especially true if you manage to acquire more than one container to serve as your home. If you have two or more containers, you can stack them one on top of the other to have a multistory dwelling, side by side for increased floor area, or just about any way you want whenever you want (for as long as you do not violate the local building code or impinge on other people’s land, of course). Thus, if you started out with two containers side by side but decided after a few months that stacking them vertically like building blocks is a better idea, you could easily pursue that option if you wish. You won't be able to enjoy such freedom with a house that is readily available or one that still needs to be built from scratch. Even if you feel you have the resources to build a new home from the ground up, the time you spend putting everything together could easily stretch into months, usually no less than five for a standard single-family dwelling. That is time you could have been spending actually living in and benefitting from a shipping container home. Also, because these containers were originally designed to be easily moved from one place to another, you may opt to move your container home by as little as a few feet in any direction or even just change its orientation while remaining in the same parcel of land (However, either option will require you to hire the services of a forklift operator or any similar business.). With benefits like these, it becomes easy to see why a growing number of people around the world have opted for shipping containers that will serve as their homes. Perhaps it's time you started thinking about getting one for yourself and for your family.