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Pallet Racking in Slough | Storage for Awkwardly Shaped Loads
The success of operations in your factory or warehouse relies heavily on space optimisation. Through Gatwick forklifts, you can use pallet racking to improve your business efficiency. Using the right type of storage for different inventory types will help you achieve your objectives, but stock of an awkward shape can often lead to wasted space, damage to items and machinery, and issues for staff when they load or unload.
This news post looks at the common issues businesses face if they stock oversized or unusually shaped products.
Bulky and Heavy Items
Long, bulky products are a frequent cause of issues for most warehouses in Slough because standard pallet racking rarely has enough horizontal space to separate and store them. A great example of this is pipework. Not only is pipework long in size; it is also heavy and comes in different lengths. This makes separation an essential part of your storage plan.
Cantilever pallet racking is a great choice for long and bulky items. In addition to pipework, it works well for carpets, poles and construction materials. This type of storage makes loading and unloading simple because the system doesn’t have any front uprights, but it does have a generous load capacity.
This racking is perfect for forklift and crane handling.
Large Fragile Items
Cantilever pallet racking isn’t the best choice for all long items. Stacking could cause damage if your premises hold stock that is long in size but fragile in design. Timber, especially softwood, is a good example of this. As well as having to worry about damage, businesses in the Slough area also need to make allowances for different types and lengths of timber.
Multiple sizes will cause issues with loading and unloading. A vertical racking design separates items using adjustable beams to make picking safer and easier with less chance for damage.
Large Moveable Items
If you store moveable stock, storage becomes more challenging because the increased chances of something falling and causing injury to staff means everything needs to be boxed. Boxes take up space you can probably ill afford to lose and unloading becomes more perilous. Take tyres as an example. Stacking will increase the chances of your pallet racking collapsing.
On the other hand, boxes waste space and vertical storage can lead to tyres rolling from the shelves onto people.
This is where dynamic pallet racking comes into play. It is an ideal choice for clients in Slough who need to segregate large moveable items while still benefiting from easy picking, safe forklift truck access and the optimal flow of product. Stock loads into gravity lanes on the loading side and once an item is picked out, another moves forward to takes its place.
Hazardous Items
For many factories and warehouses, it isn’t so much the size or the shape of what they store. It is the nature. Take gas bottles as an example. These are long, heavy and awkward in shape, but they are also potentially dangerous when stored at height. On the flipside, storing them at floor level could lead to an accident if plant collides or crashes into them.
Low-level storage also provides opportunities for theft.
Pallet racking isn’t the best option here. Companies in Slough can’t afford to take chances with dangerous items and will use steel mesh cages for this stock. For secure sites, it is possible for us to install steel mesh cages outside.
This leaves room inside your business premises for other types of pallet racking, or just for some extra floor space.