2010. Rotainer Number 1. An Industry Game Changer
IMX Resources, an Australian Iron Ore Miner was the first company to take up this new technology with the initial Rotainer® H.D being installed at D.P.W’s container terminal, South Australia. This was a big ask at the time as only 1 Rotainer® H.D was order to cater to handimax vessels of 70,000 DWT. As the industry watched, the Rotainer delivered, it proved to be highly successful in this pilot programme with other opportunities in the pipeline to follow not long after once the first Rotainer proved it worth in strength and reliability.
Furthermore, around this time Oz Minerals, an Australian premier copper concentrate mining company offered interested in this new technology. Their requirements was to use fully sealed containers with some form of automated lid opening mechanism.
During and independent compliance review to meet latest environmental guidelines it was discovered that Generic, ‘off the self’, open top containers did not meet the mechanical dynamics required at the D.P.W site, it became evident that their was a need for a purpose design, heavy duty, open top rotatable container.
It was at this time, the Australian company Container Rotation Systems Pty Ltd was establish to fully focus on and developing this market segment.