A Brief History Of Stackable Storage Containers

In the event and catering industry an awful lot of the equipment that is used is breakable. Some of it, such as glassware, is not just breakable, but fragile. There are plates, cups, saucers, cooking utensils, Pyrex dishes, and more, and all of these have to be stored, and when attending an outside event, transported. What’s more, there are an awful lot of them too.

A good few years ago, the only way you could store and transport all this equipment was in cardboard boxes – no doubt cadged from Safeway or Tesco who would have been only too happy to get rid of them. However, it meant that there were still a huge amount of breakages as the equipment was transported and the items inside the boxes moved around, despite being separated with newspaper, teacloths, or whatever.

Then it happened that someone had the idea of manufacturing boxes for the specific purpose of storing and carrying catering items, and better still started to manufacture inserts to go inside the boxes to keep individual items apart. That was a whole lot better and reduced the number of breakages, but the boxes were all different sizes to accommodate different sized items. That meant that they were difficult to store because they wouldn’t fit on top of one another, or if they did, they might be top-heavy.

Then came the solution: STACKABLE storage containers. Boxes and cartons the same size that would fit neatly on top of one another. Stackable storage containers really are the answer. Things have also got a lot better with the advent of boxes and crates in different heights but the same length and width, and with inserts that today come in a huge range of different formats. Now you can measure the width and height of your champagne glasses or whatever, and then you can buy stackable storage containers that have inserts supplied that exactly fit the items you need to store and transport.

Today, it is even better because we have containers in Euro sizes which were originally designed for the German auto industry but are now in daily use everywhere.