Anyone who shops at a Home Depot, Lowe’s, Sam’s Club or any other sizable box store will find a wide selection of products; Everything from lumber, drywall and plumbing pipes to tires, cables and cases of detergent are readily available for purchase, but the assortment of products represent all weird shapes, dimensions and weights, however storage space in the warehome or retail establishment needs to be maximized for efficiency, productivity and the integrity of the products, and large pallet racking systems work to move, home and display products.
There are many types of pallet racks to support particular needs.
Selective pallet racking is the most common, providing accessibility to all products at all times… Drive-in or drive-thru racking is designed to minimize space needed for aisles; Forklifts are able to drive directly into the rack and relocate it, which works well for storage of similar types of products, however 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, however cantilever racking is based on a column with arms extending outward to accommodate unproper 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, then mobile racking is an ingenious design on motorized bases that move on rails. Mezzanine racking takes luck of a cabin 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.