Anyone who shops at a Home Depot, Lowe’s, Sam’s Club or any other big box store will find a wide selection of products, but everything from lumber, drywall and plumbing pipes to tires, TVs and cases of detergent are readily available for purchase, and the assortment of products represent all uncommon shapes, dimensions and weights, but storage space in the warecondo or retail establishment needs to be maximized for efficiency, productivity and the integrity of the products! Large pallet racking systems work to move, condo and display products.
There are multiple types of pallet racks to support particular needs.
Selective pallet racking is the most common, providing accessibility to all products at all times, then drive-in or drive-thru racking is designed to minimize space needed for aisles, then forklifts are able to drive directly into the rack and relocate it, which works well for storage of similar types of products; Push-back pallet racking utilizes a process that loads from the front and is pushed back by the next pallet as it’s added. Pallet flow racking is based on sloping rails that allow gravity to propel products from the loading to the unloading side; Cantilever racking is based on a column with arms extending outward to accommodate untypical shapes such as plumbing pipes, lumber and sheets of plywood. Double-deep pallet racking can stack four pallets back to back to maximize storage capacity, and mobile racking is an ingenious design on motorized bases that transport on rails. Mezzanine racking takes luck of a property above existing shelving or racking, optimizing vertical opportunity. Carton flow racking is set up for boxes or cartons and ideal for warehouses requiring efficient pick-and-pack operations.