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Modular underground tanks.

A stackable tank assembled from identical injection-molded modules — for collecting, accumulating and storing liquids and wastewater below ground.

AquaBox modular underground tank installed below ground, cutaway AQUABOX · BURIED TO 3 M
What it is

A tank you build from identical parts.

AquaBox is a modular underground tank built from identical elements, injection-molded from safe mineral-filled polypropylene. It collects, accumulates and stores liquids and wastewater below ground — freeing the surface, improving safety, and letting the soil add protection. Injection molding makes it far faster to produce than fibreglass or rotomolded tanks, and because the geometry is modular, the achievable volume is effectively unlimited.

Effectively unlimited volume
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People to install — no crane
0kg
Heaviest module — installs by hand
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Per standard 40′ container
decades
Service life, easy to clean
Advantages

Eight things a tank you can’t lift will never do.

Every advantage below comes from the same decision — build the reservoir out of identical injection-moulded parts instead of casting it as one heavy object.

Inside an assembled AquaBox tank — repeating moulded ribs receding into the body, water below
One part, repeated. The whole tank is a small set of elements joined below ground. Change the count, change the volume — nothing else about the build changes.
01

Made fast, held in stock

Injection moulding runs to a cycle time, not a cure time — so tanks come off the line at a rate a hand-laid process can’t match.

150 modules / day · 360 m³
02

Volume has no ceiling

A composite body of complex geometry grows by adding sections. There is no largest size on a price list to design around.

10 → 120 m³ and beyond
03

Two people carry it in

No element is heavier than a washing machine, so the tank reaches sites with no crane access, no wide road and no lift plan.

115 kg heaviest module
04

Ships as ordinary freight

Half-shells nest into each other. A container of tank clears customs like any other pallet load — no permits, no project cargo, no escort.

120 m³ per 40′ container
05

Buries to three metres

Deep enough to sit below frost and services, and to hand the whole surface back to parking, landscaping or road.

3 m burial depth
06

You can get back inside

Necks, manholes and a ladder stay part of the body. Internals are inspected, serviced and replaced without excavating the tank.

Serviceable for life
07

Chemistry doesn’t touch it

Mineral-filled polypropylene shrugs off what corrodes steel and cracks concrete — which is why it handles wastewater, not just rain.

Alkalis · acids · oils · bacteria · fungi
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Recyclable, and made from recycled

Polypropylene goes back into the stream at end of life — where fibreglass goes to landfill and concrete stays where it was poured.

PP · secondary raw material
How it works

Complex geometry from simple modules.

Exploded view of AquaBox components — sectors, side walls, supporting grids and covers EXPLODED VIEW

Each AquaBox is a composite tank assembled below ground from a small set of repeating elements — sectors, side walls, supporting grids and end covers — joined into a reinforced yet lightweight body. Necks, manholes and ventilation bring it to the surface; the internal fit-out changes the tank's job without changing the shell.

  • Ventilation
  • Manhole
  • Neck
  • Sector SE
  • Pipe connection unit
  • Cover KE
  • Sorption cassettes SK
  • Coalescent modules
  • Dividing partition
  • Ladder
  • Side wall SW
  • Supporting grid S
Configuration

What ships in the set.

  • Body components — sectors, side walls, supporting grids, covers
  • Service well DN 1000 / 800
  • Manhole cover
  • PVC ventilation
  • Stainless-steel ladder
  • Tie-down straps
Curtain-side truck loaded with nested stacks of AquaBox half-shells ready for delivery 120 m³ PER 40′ CONTAINER STANDARD CURTAIN-SIDER — NO PERMITS
Versions

Three certified configurations.

The same modular body is fitted out for three jobs — sealed storage, multi-stage stormwater treatment, or pumping.

AquaBox sealed accumulator tank, cutaway showing stored water
Sealed body
Tank / accumulator

A fully sealed underground reservoir — an accumulator — that fills over time and is pumped out as needed.

Used wherever wastewater or liquid simply has to be collected and held before disposal, reuse or discharge.

  • Discharge of any type of wastewater
  • Accumulation in quicksand regions where a soakaway is impossible
  • Irrigation fields with soil post-treatment
  • On-site water accumulation and storage
AquaBox local treatment facility, multi-compartment stormwater treatment line
LTF · PN · NS
Local treatment (LTF)

A three-compartment treatment train for stormwater drainage — collect, treat, store — in one buried line.

Runoff passes through three stages, then into storage reservoirs, cleaned to discharge standard:

  • Collection through channels and filtering elements
  • Mechanical treatment of large contaminants
  • Fine treatment of small-dispersed contaminants
  • Model codes: LTF (sand + oil + sorption) · PN (sand + oil) · NS (oil + sorption)
AquaBox sewage pumping station — vertical cutaway, pumps lifting water from the low inlet to the high outlet
Ready to install
Pumping station (SPS)

A complete, factory-assembled pumping station for sites where gravity drainage isn't possible.

Where terrain or space won't allow the fall a gravity sewer needs, the SPS lifts flow into a pressurised main.

  • Sites where the required sewer slope can't be maintained
  • Pumping of stormwater and sewage under pressure
  • Ships ready to install — a drop-in for concrete pump chambers
Installation

Two men, no crane, one day.

Because no element weighs more than ~115 kg, an AquaBox tank is carried into the pit and assembled by hand — no crane, no lifting gear, no wide access road. The reservoir goes together on site and the surface above is handed straight back.

Excavate & prepare the base

Dig the pit and lay the base plate — length = tank length + 600 mm — on a compacted, levelled bed.

Carry the modules in

Elements of 85–115 kg are moved into the pit by two people. No crane, no forklift in the hole.

Assemble the body

Join sectors, side walls, supporting grids and end covers into the reinforced body; fit necks, manhole and ventilation to the surface.

Seal & fit out

Seal the joints and add the internal fit-out for the job — storage, LTF treatment cassettes, or the pumping set.

Anchor with the straps

Secure the tank with the supplied tie-down straps against buoyancy before backfilling.

Backfill & hand back the surface

Backfill around the body (burial depth to 3 m) and return the ground above to landscaping, parking or road.

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Full specifications

Sizes & performance.

Body diameter ≈ 2.32 m · end sections 1242 mm · intermediate sections 1328 mm · base plate 600 mm longer than the tank.

DIMENSIONS AquaBox dimensional drawing — end view showing body height H, neck height h and base-plate width B1; side elevation showing 1242 mm end sections and 1328 mm intermediate sections on a base plate 600 mm longer than the tank
Volume, m³Body length, mEmpty weight, kg
120316180
110295680
110265180
90234680
80214180
70183680
60163180
50132680
40102180
3081680
2051180

Larger volumes calculated on request — modular geometry has no fixed ceiling.

Performance, m³/hLTF (sand + oil + sorption), mSand + oil sep, mOil sep + sorption, m
up to 104.262.932.93
up to 206.924.264.26
up to 358.245.595.59
up to 5012.238.248.24
up to 7013.569.578.24
up to 8517.5412.2310.90
up to 10021.5214.8813.56
up to 14018.8716.21
up to 18022.8521.52

Model codes: AQUABOX-LTF-10 (sand + oil separator + sorption) · AQUABOX-PN-10 (sand + oil separator) · AQUABOX-NS-10 (oil separator + sorption). >180 m³/h calculated on request.

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