The Palletstor racking system, one of the most widely used pallet racking systems available today, has evolved through in-depth knowledge of storage and handling techniques gained during many years experience in the industry.
Beams can be removed and repositioned when changes in the use of the racking occur. Although Palletstor is adjustable, once the beams are slotted into position in the frame uprights, an inter-locking structure of great strength and rigidity is maintained.
Each beam is supplied complete with a pair of steel Safety Locking Pins. When located they ensure the beam is correctly positioned and help prevent the beam being dislodged during use.
Easily installed, cost-effective and versatile; adjustable beam racking is the most widely used of pallet storage systems and allows direct access to each pallet stored.
By selecting from a wide range of sizes and duties for standard frame uprights and beams, Palletstor racking can be configured to meet precise criteria in terms of load volume and weight, accessibility, handling requirements and space utilisation.
Palletstor pallet racking in its standard form provides safe, cost-effective storage for many different kinds of goods and materials. But for increased versatility Palletstor also offers a range of practical add-on accessories to make the storage and handling of goods even easier.
By allowing fork lift trucks to operate in aisles up to half the width required in conventional adjustable beam pallet racking, Narrow Aisle Palletstor makes excellent use of floor space and maximises the height at which goods can be stacked.
Using specialised lift trucks in either 'man-down' or 'man-up' variants, narrow aisle racking is precision designed for safe, efficient load handling within the tight confines of these space-efficient aisles.
Guidance rails or wires fitted at floor level ensure precise positioning of trucks. This has the multiple benefit of improving safety, whilst minimising the incidence of accidental damage to racking as well as improving the speed and accuracy of load handling.
A variant on standard adjustable beam racking, Double-deep Palletstor, as the name implies, allows pallets to be stored two deep but still accessible from the same aisle. By reducing the number of access aisles and using the space saved to accommodate additional racking, a Double-deep configuration provides a highly space-efficient storage system.
Although the speed of access to all of the pallet positions is restricted, with an efficient stock management system this can easily be compensated for to take advantage of the increased storage density.
Using minimal space for access aisles and lanes, Drive-in Palletstor provides a high-density and very space-efficient bulk storage system.
With the first pallet into a lane being the last out, stock selectivity is restricted, but this system is particularly suitable when loads are delivered and dispatched in batches. Pallets are stored on runners in the depth of the racking and trucks enter to deposit or retrieve loads.
Providing pallet storage at up to 11 metres, Drive-in Palletstor has unsurpassed structural strength and stability, with single-section uprights and rails and double bolt rail fixing into each upright.
More detailed information about Drive-in Palletstor, including components and features, can be found here.
Effectively utilising floor and cubic space, Dynamic Push-back racking is amongst the most space and time-efficient pallet storage systems available.
Pallets are loaded in sequence onto wheeled carriers of differing heights and are pushed back along inclined steel guide channels to utilise the full depth of the racking.
Pallets can be stored up to four deep and when a load is retrieved the remaining pallets roll forward into position at the picking face.
Pallets are retrieved on a 'first-in, last-out' basis and with each product having a dedicated lane, Dynamic Push-back racking is particularly useful in marshalling areas, and for long-term bulk storage and handling.
Working on a first-in, first-out basis, Dynamic Live Palletstor provides extremely high levels of storage density in a given area.
Pallets are loaded onto dedicated lanes of inclined gravity rollers which are set at a fixed gradient. When a load is taken from the picking face, the next pallet rolls into position, with replenishment stock loaded at the opposite (upper) end of the lane.
Stock rotation is therefore automatic with the minimum of fork lift truck movements required to handle the flow of goods.
Carton live storage or 'flow racking' operates on the same principle as pallet live storage, but is used for stock which needs to be hand-loaded and picked.
Live storage systems reduce order picking times and help minimise errors, as not only are items presented precisely at the picking face, but effective management of the throughput and stock levels of goods can also be easily maintained.
Whilst providing the ideal means of storing palletised loads, the versatility of the Palletstor system means large, bulky or simply awkward to store items can be accommodated using the most accessible and space-efficient methods.
Combinations of standard components and accessories with specialised 'bespoke' items create successful solutions to what may initially appear to be the most difficult of storage problems.
Raised platforms and 'tiered' systems also provide a cost-effective means of utilising the height of a building thereby maximising the storage capacity for a given floor area.
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