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Pallet mole can increase drive-in racking capacity
Pallet Mole, a clever device from e-racking, promises to increase the capacity of drive-in racking by up to 75%.
In these difficult times there is a greater need to optimise every inch of warehouse space. A new product that promises to solve many of the problems of high density storage solutions is now available.
Sheda highlights pitfalls of buying racking ‘blind’
Do you think you’ve netted the racking deal of the century? ShD talks to Storage, Handling Equipment Distributors’ Association (SHEDA) committee members to highlight some of the pitfalls with buying ‘blind’.
We all know eBay is the world’s most environmentally-friendly website. Creating a marketplace for people’s unwanted items, millions of products are being reused rather than recycled or sent to the tip. Including pallet racking. eBay isn’t the only internet shop where racking is available at a cut-rate price, but it’s certainly the largest.
Racking of ages
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A chance encounter at a trade event led to Peter MacLeod being invited to visit Redirack‘s factory in South Yorkshire. He was impressed.
Regular readers will be familiar with Redirack. It has bound its house magazine, Rack It, in ShD for quite some time, bringing to our readers its considerable experience of all things racking and shelving.
Concrete Grinding goes flat out
Concrete Grinding Ltd (CG) worked in partnership with Eurolit at a new facility for BIC-Violex SA in Athens.
The assignment was very similar to the Aktor project CG did for IKEA in 2007/8. Eurolit constructed the steel fibre reinforced floor to a high standard. Face Consultants then tested the aisles for compliance to the DIN 15185 specification within the proposed truck wheel paths. The graphic traces were then analysed and any sections which did not comply with the specification were highlighted. Subsequently, Concrete Grinding used the Laser Grinder to correct the floor within the wheel tracks at these locations.
SSI Schaefer: waking giant
We meet SSI Schaefer’s UK general manager, Dutchman Jaap Vos, who has ambition to use the recession as a means to grow his company’s market share.
Well known as a supplier of racking and shelving in the UK, Andover-based SSI Schaefer has started recently to make a serious name for itself in the world of automated warehousing. As we brave out the recession, SSI Schaefer is pushing ahead with ambitious plans to up its influence in areas outside of its traditional UK comfort zone.
J&M Storage Systems reaps rewards from second-hand pallet racking
Handling and distribution companies are putting more of an emphasis on the bottom line when purchasing their pallet racking, with many of them turning to second-hand pallet racking. One company that seems to be benefitting from this trend is J&M Storage Systems, a family-run business with more than 25 years’ proven track record in the industry.
J&M Storage Systems is considered as a market leader in quality used pallet racking, drive-in racking and steel shelving. The company says it prides itself in supplying only the highest quality used racking from leading manufacturers, which includes Link 51 (the most widely used system in UK warehouses), Apex, Dexion and Redirack. When the used pallet racking arrives at J&M Storage Systems’ 80,000ft2 warehouse in Yorkshire, they are put through strict quality control and ensure that they are re-sold in excellent condition.
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