About Staxxon
Staxxon is a funded development stage start-up headquartered in Montclair, NJ, USA. George Kochanowski is the founder and CEO of Staxxon LLC. Since mid-2010, the Staxxon team has been developing dynamic space/slot optimization technology for empty shipping containers. The technology targets cost reduction for moving empty intermodal shipping containers by allowing up to 5 empty containers to be moved, lifted, stowed and stored in the same space, at the same cost and in the same time as 1 container.
Visit Staxxon’s YouTube channel to see how Staxxon’s vertical folding and nesting technology works and watch a Staxxon prototype being folded.
Visit Staxxon’s Vimeo channel to see how Staxxon’s technology will be applied at terminals, depots and on ships, rail and truck.
Staxxon’s top design objectives for its folding/nesting technology platform are:
Honor existing IMO, ISO and CSC shipping container standards; and,
Preserve and enhance the basic structural integrity of today’s steel shipping containers using existing supply chains; and,
Honor existing shipping container fleet owner, operator and vendor supply chain relationships; and,
Honor existing shipping container workflow and standards for booking freight and moving containers at ports, terminals, distribution centers and depots.
Staxxon’s top technical objective is to implement a folding and nesting method with an associated scalable, integrated workflow system for empty shipping containers that removes the most expensive container commodity – air – and replaces air with folded and nested empty containers that meet current dimensional, structural, mechanical and weathertight standards for shipping containers.
Staxxon’s top business objective is to license shipping container folding and nesting technology and products where the incremental cost of adding the folding/nesting technology is recovered rapidly from operational cost savings based on improved utilization (fewer lifts/touches/moves), enhanced agility (faster ship/truck/rail load/unload time) and improved densification (more containers occupy less terminal/depot/ship/rail/truck space.)
Staxxon’s top sustainability objective is to reduce the number of container moves at terminals as well as “dray” (short-haul)
truck moves at ports and terminals involving empty containers. While some competitors have focused their sustainability objectives around the use of alternative materials to replace steel, Staxxon has focused on the larger environmental challenge of reducing the carbon footprint associated with terminal moves and gate entries/exits involving empty containers.
US patent 7,703,632 was issued on 27 April 2010 covering the core Staxxon container technology. Additional patents have issued and are pending. A CSC Certificate was issued in April 2012 for Staxxon’s first 20′ prototype. Staxxon’s BIC registration code for its prototype containers is STXU. In 2011 Staxxon raised $1M USD in a private “seed” offering. Staxxon is currently completing a “Series A” investment round to support field tests and trials for its technology and products.
If you would like more information about Staxxon’s technology or would like to discuss test and trial opportunities:
email: Tom Stitt – tstitt@staxxon.com | tel or text: +1 650.523.4944
