The family behind the steel.
We're A&A Containers, a family business based in Honeydew, Gauteng, with roots in the UK and work right across South Africa and the rest of Africa. For 35+ years we've sold, rented and converted shipping containers. Here's the family behind it.
The yard · Honeydew, GautengAndrew Spenceley, 1951–2021.
Andy started A&A Containers in 1991 and was one of the pioneers of the container industry here in South Africa. He put God first and loved his family dearly: his wife, his four daughters and his fourteen grandchildren.
He was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, friend and businessman who poured his heart into this company, into the work, the people, and every supplier and customer he dealt with. Andy was loyal, generous, honest and hardworking, a man of real integrity, and he passed that on to everyone who worked alongside him.
“Andy was a man of integrity passed to all who worked closely with him.”
We carry that on. We still put God first, and we still run on loyalty and integrity in everything we do.
- 1991
The start
Andy Spenceley starts A&A Containers in Honeydew, Gauteng, as one of the pioneers of the container industry in South Africa.
- 1991–2021
The decades of work
Three decades of container sales, rentals and conversions, including containerised clinics and labs sent out across Africa.
- 2021
Andy passes away
He leaves a business built the way he lived: on loyalty, honesty and hard work.
- Today
The next generation
His family carries it on from the same Honeydew yard, serving South Africa and the rest of Africa.
Containers, turned into something more.
We turn shipping containers into clinics, labs, offices and accommodation, and we've been doing it longer than most. We're the market leader in container conversions, and we helped pioneer containerised clinics and labs right across Africa.
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One team, the whole job
We look after you from the first call to the day your container lands. No run-around. The same people carry your job from brief to handover.
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Two conversion depots
Three and a half decades in, with two dedicated conversion depots in Johannesburg, we still treat every job like it matters, because it does.
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Built to last
Quality workmanship and quick lead times. Solid conversions, done properly, made to take a beating.