Shipping Container Swimming Pools Make a Splash as Sales Soar for Canadian Company
From intricate urban marketplaces to offices and affordable housing solutions, shipping containers across the country have been given a new lease on life lately.
And, as heat waves have become more common, they’ve even become appreciated swimming pools.
Since 2017, Abbotsford, British Columbia-based Modpools has helped the cooling down cause of customers across North America with its sleek shipping container backyard pools.
It was during a trip to Palm Springs back in 2016 that sparked the modular pool concept for Modpools owner and CEO Paul Rathnam.
“Paul has a company called Modpro which has been modifying shipping containers into various industrial enclosures, offices, and bathrooms for years,” says Modpools’ marketing manager Brad Fontaine. “He thought why not try and make them into a pool as well, and worst-case scenario he will end up with a pool in his backyard.”
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