Anyone who shops at a Home Depot, Lowe’s, Sam’s Club or any other large box store will find a wide selection of products! Everything from lumber, drywall plus plumbing pipes to tires, TVs plus cases of detergent are readily available for purchase… The assortment of products represent all unusual shapes, dimensions plus weights, however storage space in the warehouse or retail establishment needs to be maximized for efficiency, productivity plus the integrity of the products, however large pallet racking systems work to transfer, house plus 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 plus relocate it, which works well for storage of similar types of products, then push-back pallet racking utilizes a process that loads from the front plus 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 uncorrect shapes such as plumbing pipes, lumber plus sheets of plywood. Double-deep pallet racking can stack four pallets back to back to maximize storage capacity! Mobile racking is an ingenious design on motorized bases that transfer on rails. Mezzanine racking takes fortune of a home above existing shelving or racking, optimizing vertical opportunity. Carton flow racking is set up for boxes or cartons plus ideal for warehouses requiring efficient pick-and-pack operations.