Fusion Bonded Epoxy steel containment for water and wastewater treatment systems — the engineered vessel inside the plant, for communities, estates and mines that can't afford a failing pond.
Wastewater is the most aggressive duty a tank will ever see. Ponds seep. Plastic liners shrink, puncture and cook in the sun. And every failure means honeysuckers, penalties, and a treatment system that stops treating.
Lined earth ponds seep into the ground you live on — and into the compliance file.
Plastic-lined tanks fail in aggressive effluent: chemicals, heat and abrasion find the liner first.
Every failure is a callout: honeysuckers, pump-outs, emergency tanker cycles — paid for forever.
Non-compliance means penalties, licence risk, and downstream contamination on your name.
Fusion Bonded Epoxy is fused to the steel at 200 °C — the barrier is part of the panel, not a bag inside it.
Chemical, abrasion and UV resistant, inside and out. Rated −30 °C to +85 °C.
No liner to shrink, puncture or replace. Damage is repairable on site — no rebuild.
An engineered, inspectable, compliant vessel — with 40+ years of service in it.
Cheap containment isn't cheap. It's just billed later.
Each panel is grit-blasted, pre-heated and electrostatically coated, then cured at 200 °C. The epoxy doesn't cover the steel — it becomes its surface.
No plastic bag to shrink, fold, puncture or swap out every few years. No liner replacement line item, ever.
Chemical, abrasion and UV resistant. Bolted carbon-steel panels engineered to 11.8 million litres, tested past 3 000 hours of salt spray.
FBE is repairable on site. The tank is bolted, inspectable and maintainable — infrastructure, not a consumable.
The same FBE bolted-steel system we build for municipal, mining and industrial duty — because water and wastewater containment is infrastructure, whether it serves a mine, an estate or a village.
| Tank capacity | Up to 11 800 kL (11.8 ML) net per vessel |
| Diameter | Ø 2.96 – 37.0 m (4 – 50 panels per ring) |
| Wall height | 1.15 – 11.5 m (1 – 10 bolted rings) |
| Panels | Carbon steel, 2 450 × 1 200 mm, precision-punched bolted panels |
| Plate thickness | 1.6 – 12.0 mm, heaviest at the base (AWWA D103-97 shell design) |
| Structure | External stiffener columns, 6 mm plate profile — FBE coated with the shell |
| Coating | Fusion Bonded Epoxy (FBE) — inside & outside, factory-applied |
| Coating thickness | 250 – 400 µm (typical) |
| Adhesion | ASTM D4541 Class 1 |
| Corrosion resistance | > 3 000 hrs salt-spray (ASTM B117) |
| Temperature range | −30 °C to +85 °C |
| Sealant system | Industrial mastic joint sealant |
| Foundation | Reinforced concrete floor slab — engineer-specified per site |
| Compliance | AWWA D103-97 · AS/NZS 4020 · ISO 12944-9 · SANS 10160 |
| Finishes | Matte black · industrial grey · charcoal |
| Assembly | Flat-packed, bolted & modular — transportable anywhere in Africa |
Indicative ranges for planning. Every Rhino Tank is sized, load-checked and signed off by a professional engineer for its duty, contents, site and wind zone before fabrication. Size your tank in the tool →
Not imported in a container. Punched, blasted and FBE-coated in our own factory — so panels fit, spares are close, and the engineering answers to us.
Your Rhino Tank is raised by trained, certified installer teams close to your site — not a crew flown in from far away and billed to you.
A treatment plant is only as good as the vessels it runs in. Rhino Tanks are the engineered containment inside water and wastewater systems — for treatment partners, estates, mines and communities.
Raw inflow balancing, buffer and emergency holding — aggressive contents in a bonded vessel that doesn't seep, bulge or leak into the ground.
Reactor, clarifier and sludge-holding duty for package-plant and treatment-system partners. We supply the engineered vessel; your process runs inside it.
Hold treated effluent for irrigation, dust suppression, process re-use or compliant discharge — closing the loop on the same bolted platform.
We size and engineer the containment. Your treatment specialist or plant OEM designs the process. Together, the system serves an estate, a mine village or a whole community — permanently.
A pond seeps. A liner fails. Bonded steel stays.
Wastewater doesn't forgive cheap containment — it finds the weak point and sends the bill downstream. A Rhino Tank is the point where a community, an estate or a mine stops renting its containment year by year and owns it for a generation. We bond the steel. You close the loop.
