2005   September -  Industrial Container Services, LLC is Acquired by Wingate Partners Dallas, TX

  October -  Industrial Container Services, LLC Acquires Lakeland Drum Service, Inc.

  October -  Industrial Container Services, LLC Acquires All of Ennis Drum Service, Inc. Machinery and Equipment

  December -  Industrial Container Services, LLC Acquires Charlotte, North Carolina Facility from American Container Net, Inc.

2004   July -  ICS opens Empty Drum Depot in Houston, TX

2003 
  January- ICS acquires PMI, an IBC reconditioning company, in La Porte,  Texas.

  March- ICS sells Kansas City and Minneapolis facilities to Container Logix.

  March - ICS completes acquisition of Moore Drum in Charleston, South Carolina.

  October – ICS sells three IBC reconditioning facilities in South Carolina, Texas and California to focus on core business.

2002 
ICS announces acquisition of Drums, Inc. (Tampa,FL)

2001 
IFCO System, N.V. announces decision to divest from drum reconditioning business in an effort to focus on its core business and repay debt. The management team overseeing IFCO's ICS division forms a privately held ownership group, called Industrial Container Services (ICS), and purchases the 15 reconditioning facilities from its parent.

2000 
PalEx-IFCO merger complete. IFCO Systems ICS acquires Belfer Drum Company (Grand Rapids, MI)

1999 
PalEx announces it will merge with the International Food Container Organization, a European leader of returnable plastic container pools. The new company will become IFCO Systems, a world leader in reusable material handling systems.

1999 
PalEx ICS continues its mission to become a national industrial container supplier with the acquisitions of Charlotte Steel Drum (Charlotte, NC), Atlas Container Corporation (Miami, FL) and McCook Drum (Chicago,IL) and the creation of Container Resources Corporation (CRC), a division of ICS, dedicated to developing an industrial container retrieval network and IBC leasing business.

1998 
Four leading regional steel drum reconditioning companies, Acme Barrel ( Chicago, IL), Consolidated Container Co. (Minneapolis, MN), Container Services Co. (Los Angeles, CA) and Drum Services of Florida, Co. (Orlando, FL), initiated an industry consolidation to form PalEx Industrial Container Systems LLP.