Today, the majority of the market share of modified shipping container units industry is supplied from manufactures from China. With the rising manufacturing costs, low product quality and the cultural understanding and perception of quality, opportunities have become available for manufacturing and production from new Asian countries to compete and supply more effectively than the Chinese. The sc
ope to expand the customer base given multiple product applications is the strength and electivity of the industry. The strength and durability of shipping containers enables both standardised applications and customised modifications to suit customer’s needs. Standardised applications include general and simple modifications of shipping containers for the general public. Customised solutions include containerised offices, containerised accommodations camps, housing, and villages and retail point of purchase with speciality designs for diverse customers. The high barriers to market enhances Aalps as an established company and propels the business into a market leadership position to provide shipping containers for modified housing, living and customised units for any application the end user requires to meet their applications. Aalps is the only shipping container company in Australia with a production factory in the Philippines with the facilities, capabilities and experience to produce higher end modified shipping container units and significantly lower overheads compared to other companies in the industry. Having a production factory enables Aalps to expand into different containerised directions and production, along with greater potential and capabilities than any other competitor. In Australia now, the usage of shipping container for affordable housing units is an accepted social and economical solution for living. Aalps is a producer of an economical and eco – green friendly construction, as all of our modified housing units are energy efficient.