A waste container never sits still. It gets loaded by excavator, dragged, pulled onto a truck, tipped and set down again, hundreds of times a year. What makes it last is not plate thickness alone, but where each stiffener goes and how well it fits the truck that lifts it.
At Indumor we build the three types used by waste collection and environmental service companies: roll-off containers for hook-lift or cable hoist trucks, skips for chain skip loaders and 1 m³ wheeled bins. With our steel or yours, one at a time or in series.
Quote containersThe big box, 14 to 30 m³, for building sites, plants and drop-off points. The truck pulls it up on rails: a hook-lift arm grabs a bar at the front, or a cable hoist winches it onto the bed. The body can be the same; the front and the coupling change. Heavy floor, side posts and a two-leaf rear door.
The tapered 3 to 10 m³ bin seen outside building sites. A skip loader lifts it with four chains hooked to side pins and tips it over the end. The 5 m³ is the standard size in Argentina: about 3.3 m long at the top, 1.7 m wide and 1.07 m high, in 1/8" plate with a stiffened rim.
The street or plant bin on four castors, emptied by rear-loading refuse trucks. The truck takes it by two trunnion pins and tips it with its lifter or a cable winch. 2.1 mm ribbed plate, 1/2" flat bar rim and a lid.
| Container | Capacity | Approximate inside dimensions | Plate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roll-off | 14 m³ | 6,000 × 2,300 × 1,000 mm | Floor 4 to 4.75 mm, sides 3.2 mm |
| Roll-off | 20 m³ | 6,000 × 2,300 × 1,450 mm | Floor 4.75 mm, sides 3.2 mm |
| Roll-off | 28 to 30 m³ | 6,000 to 6,100 × 2,300 to 2,400 × 2,000 mm | Floor 4.75 to 6.35 mm, sides 3.2 to 4.75 mm |
| Skip | 5 m³ | Top 3,340 × 1,690, floor 1,850 × 1,500, height 1,070 mm | 3.2 mm, rim 4.75 to 6.35 mm |
| Skip | 8 m³ | Top 3,970 × 1,760, height 1,540 mm | 3.2 to 4.75 mm |
| Wheeled bin | 1 m³ | Top 1,730 × 940, body 920 mm | 2.1 mm ribbed |
These are the sizes that keep coming up in the Argentine market. We also build to order: for a shorter truck, a lower box for heavy waste, a lid, a tailgate or a thicker floor.
To try sizes, plates and weights first, use the container calculator in our Engineering Suite (in Spanish): it checks plate, posts, floor and lifting pins against the waste you plan to carry.
Fit to the truck
Hook bar height, rail spacing and roller size come from the truck that will lift it. We take them from the truck before building, not from a catalogue.
The floor
It takes the most punishment: bucket loading, tipping and dragging. It goes one plate size thicker than the sides, with cross members close together.
Side posts
Waste pushes the walls outwards. Posts every 600 mm and a tubular top rail keep the box straight even when it is filled to the brim.
Continuous welds
Full-length welds on the floor and corners, so water does not get between plates and liquids do not drip out. Lifting pins in SAE 1045 steel.
We quote each container finished, with steel and paint, ready to work. For large fleets we also offer fabrication per kilo with your own materials: you supply plate, sections, castors and paint, and we cut, fit, weld and paint them, with an agreed monthly minimum.
To quote, tell us which truck will lift them, what waste they will carry and how many you need per month.
Roll-off containers, skips and 1 m³ bins, per unit or per kilo with your steel.
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