Our Trade Supplies range covers the two things our trade customers buy in volume: load restraint kit from Fasty, and workshop and site storage from Fischer Plastic Products. We've been Fischer's appointed distributor for New South Wales, the ACT and Western Australia for years, and we import Fasty's straps direct from their factory in Anderstorp, Sweden. KNAACK, Cesco and Easyroll round out the catalogue for jobsite security, paint and solvent decanting, and container-mobility twist locks.
Trade customers buy from us for a few reasons specifically. Our straps are tagged and current to the markings referenced by the National Transport Commission's Load Restraint Guide, so they read as compliant under roadside inspection and Chain of Responsibility audits. Our Fischer range carries the AS 2070 food-contact, AS 5369 medical-reprocessing and EN/IEC 61340-5-1 ESD compliance documentation your tender submissions and QA teams will ask for. And we hold local stock across our Perth, Melbourne and Sydney support centres, so the SKUs at the heart of the catalogue are available without third-hand sourcing or extended lead times. Trade-account customers get catalogue pricing and dedicated handling for fleet and fit-out volumes; retail pricing and single-piece ordering work without an account.
Load restraint
Our Fasty range runs from 400 kg Lashing Capacity at the trade-grade end up to 2,500 kg LC for serious linehaul work, with break strength roughly double the LC figure on each strap. The Load Restraint Guide builds its direct-lashing arithmetic on LC, not breaking strain, and the simple rule is exacting: combined LC has to equal twice the load mass forward, and equal to the load mass sideways and rearward. We carry the documentation against AS/NZS 4380 on each product page.
Beyond LC, three things determine whether a strap is fit to use.
The compliance tag. Webbing has to carry a legible AS/NZS 4380 tag. Standards Australia withdrew that standard, but the NTC Load Restraint Guide still references it as the practical markings benchmark, and roadside inspections still read against it. Faded or illegible tags are a pre-start failure regardless of buckle condition. Chain of Responsibility liability sits with directors and consignors as well as drivers, so frayed-tag straps put more than the driver in scope.
The webbing. Polyester is the right answer for almost everything, with minimal elongation under load. Polypropylene is acceptable on lighter applications. Nylon stretches enough to cause problems on long-haul tie-downs and is rare in trade catalogues for that reason. Fasty's straps are UV-stabilised polyester or polypropylene depending on the class.
The buckle. Fasty manufactures its own steel buckles in-house at Anderstorp, which by some accounts is the last lashing-buckle factory still operating in Sweden. The buckles are oversized, with a wider opening than the cast-zinc alternatives in the supermarket-grade aisle. That detail matters when you're threading one with work gloves on, or in the wet. Most fleets notice it by the second or third pre-departure on the new straps.
For motorcycles, automotive panels and anything that doesn't tolerate over-tensioning, our cam-buckle straps are the right call. Ratchets are for cargo that wants to be cinched down hard.
Workshop and site storage
Storage decisions sit on a five-to-ten year cycle. Specified properly, a picking-bin wall outlasts the people who set it up. Specified cheaply, it cracks inside two years and has to be redone, usually around the time the workshop is at peak production. The points worth comparing are unglamorous and they're the ones that matter.
Material. Fischer moulds in Random Copolymer Polypropylene, the engineering-grade plastic, not the styrene-blend in the cheaper alternatives. CPPP handles UV exposure, industrial solvents and being dropped onto concrete by an apprentice without cracking. The cheaper material won't.
Modularity. Stor-Pak mounting lips fit standard Australian louvre panels, so anyone fitting out a van or wall rack against a louvre brand Fischer's bins were dimensioned for is reading the same brief everyone else is. The Spare Parts Trays (the proper name; "Slot Box" is a common misnomer and isn't actually a Fischer SKU) are dimensioned to standard van-shelving widths. The result is a fit-out that takes a day to install, not a week to retrofit.
Industry-specific ranges. Mesh-Pak (perforated base, ventilated, dust-free) is the medical default for sterile-supply storage and pharmacy shelving. Visi-Pak (clear tilt-bins) is the electronics-assembly answer. The ESD-Safe range is built against EN/IEC 61340-5-1, the international ESD control programme standard, for situations where the QA team wants the documentation as well as the components.
Provenance. Fischer Plastic Products has been manufacturing in Mulgrave, Victoria since 1965. It's a 100% Australian-owned family business and unrelated to the German Georg Fischer engineering group, despite the shared surname. That confusion is regular in tender documentation. For Australian-Made procurement preferences or government tender disclosures, we can issue the certification pack on request.
Standards that come up in tenders
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NTC Load Restraint Guide (2018, with current amendments): the operating framework owned by NHVR. Free download from the National Transport Commission.
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AS/NZS 4380:2001: Motor Vehicles, Cargo Restraint Systems. Standards Australia has withdrawn this, but the LRG retains references to it and roadside inspections still read against the tag. Treat it as live for compliance purposes.
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Heavy Vehicle National Law and Chain of Responsibility: liability for restraint failure travels up the supply chain to loaders, consignors, and directors. Drivers are not the only people exposed.
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AS 2070-1999: Plastics materials for food contact use. Fischer Stor-Tub crates in catering or food-handling environments fall under this.
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AS 5369:2023: Reprocessing of reusable medical devices. Superseded AS/NZS 4187:2014 in December 2023. Storage in sterile-supply has to be non-porous and tolerant of hospital-grade disinfectants.
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AS 1940:2017: Storage and handling of flammable and combustible liquids. Applies where KNAACK chests or Tin Billys hold solvents on a site.
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Safe Work Australia Model WHS Regulations, Part 7.1 (Hazardous Chemicals): covers the duties around decanting solvents into Tin Billys.
We carry the AS/NZS 4380 documentation on each strap product page. Fischer's detailed plastics certifications aren't all on the public datasheets, but we can issue them for tender submissions on request.
Brands stocked in this collection
Fischer Plastic Products. Our largest line in this collection, with 106 SKUs covering the Stor-Pak picking-bin range, Spare Parts Trays, Compartment Boxes, Drawer Organisers, Louvre Panels, Tool Boxes and the Stor-Tub bulk crates (32 L, 52 L, 68 L). Every Fischer SKU is moulded at the Mulgrave, Victoria facility. We've been Fischer's appointed distribution partner for NSW, ACT and Western Australia for years.
Fasty. Our load-restraint line, ranging from 400 kg up to 2,500 kg Lashing Capacity, plus cam-buckle tie-downs for sensitive cargo. We import direct from the Anderstorp factory, which by some accounts is the only lashing-buckle factory still operating in Sweden.
KNAACK. Two jobsite storage chests for sites where theft risk matters more than weight. Recessed lock housings to defeat the angle grinder. Piano hinges that can't be knocked out. Crane lift points and forklift skids for moving the chest between dig zones during a shutdown.
Cesco Tin Billys. Lever-lid paint and solvent cans in 1 L through 4.5 L. Lined for water-based contents; unlined for solvent.
Easyroll. One SKU here, the twist lock that fits Easyroll's container-moving castors. The full Easyroll range lives in our castors and wheels collections.
Ordering and trade accounts
Trade-account application opens catalogue pricing and dedicated handling for bulk and fleet-scale orders. Our customer service team can issue Fischer's certification pack for tender submissions, source from the broader Fischer or Fasty range if a specific SKU isn't on the website, and coordinate fit-out specifications for van builds, workshop walls or sterile-supply rooms. Retail pricing and single-piece ordering work without an account.
We despatch Australia-wide from our Perth (head office), Melbourne and Sydney support centres, with stock held against fleet-quantity orders on the most common SKUs. If you need anything over a hundred pieces on a specific date, give us a call ahead and we'll confirm availability.
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