Understanding Seismic Requirements
Before you install new racking, learn all you need about your region’s seismic activity and how that impacts your rack selections. When it comes to earthquakes, it’s easy to think that outside of California, they’re not much of a concern ...
Damaged Racks? What to Consider
Before taking any steps, perform due diligence with your approach to rack repair or replacement. When you purchase and install new racking, you aren’t really thinking ahead to the potential that it might get damaged. Reality is, however, that at ...
The Ins and Outs of Pallet Rack Anchoring
Anchoring is required and essential. Here’s what you need to know. Your racking systems are the heart of your warehousing storage, and ensuring safe use is essential. In most cases, racking holds multiple tons of pallets, representing thousands upon thousands ...
Why You Should Consider Fire Protection Early in Rack Design
Designing a rack system involves planning with fire protection in mind. It’s an unfortunate fact that warehouse fires are a fairly common occurrence. In fact, data from the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) reveals that there are somewhere on average ...
The Difference Between Racking and Shelving
Picking the right racking or shelving solutions for your specific operations can be a lengthy process and one that should be carried out with a credentialed racking or shelving manufacturing partner. Having a good understanding of what systems and options ...
Navigating the World of Used Racking: In short, buyer beware ...
Without question, buying used racking will save you money. Often, you can find it at five to 10 percent or more below the cost of new racking. It’s also easy to lay your hands on used racking: from retailers who ...
The Three Types of Engineers You Need on a Project
Before you move forward with your rack design project, get these three types of engineers on board. You have plans to install a new racking system, whether within an existing facility or within a new, greenfield build. There’s a lot ...
High-Pile Storage Fire Protection
Fire codes can be tricky from one situation to the next. Here’s what you need to understand about fire protection for high-pile storage. Fire protection in the warehouse is non-negotiable and essential. But fire codes evolve over time, and in ...
Storage Rack Safety: Avoid the damage that can lead to ...
Racks are the center of your operations and you’ve invested a good deal of time and money into their design and layout. Don’t let that all go to waste by overlooking some simple safety measures. If done well, your racking ...
Not Your Father’s Steel Shelving: Today’s steel shelving options go ...
Every warehouse is aware of—and uses—basic, traditional steel shelving. A system of beams and uprights, for many years it was simply that—a place to store your pallet loads and that’s where it ended. Today, however, steel shelving is available in ...