About us

We manufacture a range of residential, agricultural, and commercial poly products!

We manufacture a range of residential, agricultural, and commercial poly products, including rainwater tanks, molasses and fertilizer tanks, water and feed troughs, and a range of other equine and animal care products including the popular D-shaped fence feeder.

The reason we all come to work every day is to solve the regional communities water management needs, and help our dealers and their businesses be more successful every day.

The reason why you should choose Rapid Plas products, is because of the high importance we place on product reliability, quality, style and looks, and a brand you can be proud of. We don’t believe in cutting costs to sell cheaper if the customer will lose out with a faulty product.

Crown Force™ Technology

Today, (February 2020), it is with immense excitement that we approach a “New Era” in Water Storage. After years of Research and Engineering, Rapid Plas proudly announces the release of the new “Crown Force™ Technology” LLDPE Water Tanks. The strongest Rapid Plas tank ever. Crown Force™ Technology involves a new inbuilt centre ‘Crown’ which locks the unique triangular roof fins together, to provide the tank with unprecedented structural Integrity. The walls of the Crown Force™ Tanks are further strengthened by the unique composition of the Rapid Plas RGBlend20 raw material.

RGBlend20

We make our own RGBlend20 raw material. The Raw material (polyethylene) is processed and ground in-house under controlled conditions and is made to the requirements of AS/NZS 4766:2006. We use virgin, food grade polyethylene resin which has been developed and made in Australia to meet the extremes of Australia’s challenging climatic conditions – including the effects of UV radiation. This also allows us to provide the largest colour range in Australia for rainwater tanks.

Our friendly and helpful staff can be contacted for product advice and support any time between 8am to 5pm on Monday to Friday. We look forward to extending our excellent customer care to you!

Products are available from the Rapid 
Stockist Network

Over 30 years Rapid Plas has established a dealer network with hundreds of stockist across NSW and south east QLD. This network gives you peace of mind when buying from Rapid Plas with:

  • Somebody locally looking after you
  • Back up support from your local dealer
  • The convenience of small products delivered to your local dealer for you to pick up, saving you the freight cost

Also, we have a lot different products in stock in our dealer’s yards and shops, giving you the chance to see and touch the product before you buy it. So please give us a call to find out if the product you are looking for is in stock at a dealer near you

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The Rapid Plas Story – A Great Story Now Told

The Rapid Plas story is one that illustrates the approach we still take today in engineering, and manufacturing tough but smart looking products for the harsh Australian environment.
The founder, Michael Firth, grew up on their family farm just west of Tamworth. After winning dux of Tamworth High school in his last year, he studied as a cadet engineer in the Parry Shire. He began his working life as a civil engineer after starting a company building roads and bridges around country NSW. But as the farming blood ran so thick, in 1975 he sold the bridge building business and bought a farm about 30km out of Tamworth called Apple Tree Flat. Here he ran a cattle feed lot of over 1500 head and later ran a sheep feedlot.

Battling through life as cattle and sheep farmers during this time was hard work and tough stuff. So, using his engineering experience and with the help of his sons, they designed their first “Rapid Sheep Handler” which made it so much quicker to turn the sheep on their backs, so they could trim their hooves. Many farmers in the area quickly began to see the benefit and began to use them too.

Image: Michael Firth with their youngest child

Image: One of the very first Rapid Sheep Handlers