Poly Trolley
Innovative Operator: Daniel Wos, CEO of Polyworld at Clontarf, came up with the idea of recycling old plastic water tanks into cheap, lightweight trolleys and containers for industries such as hospitals, and is now on his way to exporting them.
Clontarf-based business Polyworld has been making water tanks for more than 16 years, but Chief Executive Officer Daniel Wos said it recently faced its biggest challenge.
“When the government started offering rebates, a lot of dodgy operators opened up to make some quick money and once the rebates were gone, they were gone too.” Mr Wos said, adding that many customers came to him with faulty tanks from other companies, wanting help to fix splits or holes.
When they couldn’t be repaired, he would replace them with Polyworld products and ended up wth a yard full of scraps.
“I came up with this solution to recycle the plastic and make trolleys for different industries, such as hospitals for their linen and that kind of thing,” Mr Wos said.
And the industries benefited from his innovative idea.
“The trolleys they were using in the hospital were made of stainless steel so they were heavy, rattly and took 10 times the energy needed to make the plastic ones,” he said.
The plastic trolleys were also half the cost of the metal ones and Mr Wos is preparing to export them.
“The economy is tough at the moment but there is a light at the end of the tunnel,” he said.
“We just had to diversify to get back on top.”
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Article published in the Redcliffe and Bayside Herald, June 16, 2010
Note: View some of the poly trolley range, now given the name Polytroly by Polyworld.
