Canberra based engineering company Sea Box International, known for creating purpose-built deployable habitats based on shipping containers, has used its 10th anniversary to rebrand to the new name of ECLIPS.
As Sea Box International, ECLIPS has provided logistics platforms and shipping container-based modular buildings tailored for a variety of roles from emergency accommodation to training facilities and cyclone shelters since 2007, including 150 containers fitted for Army’s Townsville urban operations training village facility and deployable generator training containers for Navy.
The company has engineered container-based observation posts, laboratory buildings and a “roll-out” design which expands to three times its original width when deployed in the field.
It has also created deployable logistics storage and warehousing equipment, including flat-racks, intelligent load handling systems and the “CROWS” (Container Roll-Out Warehousing System), an inter-connectable steel cargo-carrying platform and field warehousing system that can be rolled in and out of standard ISO shipping containers for transport. ECLIPS recently completed delivery of 2157 logistics flat-racks for Army under Land 121.
ECLIPS has also partnered with Australian digital technologies company ABB to offer a shipping container-based microgrid deployable power system that can use renewable power generation such as deployable solar power arrays. The ABB/ECLIPS system can be deployed with minimal site preparation and can be producing power within hours of arrival at site.
ECLIPS managing director Shaun Moore said that with the company’s recent 10th anniversary, it was time to differentiate its specialised, Australian designed products from the US-derived Sea Box shipping container company with which it originally partnered.
“When we first branded as Sea Box, part of the view was that we would sell a lot of the Sea Box products,” he said. “But 10 years later we haven’t sold a single Sea Box product: everything we’ve ever done has been designed by Australian engineers.
“People were viewing us as merely a shopfront for an American company, which is not the case, so that’s the catalyst. After 10 years it’s time to rebrand and make sure that people see us as an Australian company.”
Look for a profile of ECLIPS in the forthcoming December-January issue of ADM.