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Free-standing mezzanine systems used wasted or often ignored vertical space.  You can double or even triple the usable square footage of your existing facility.  Using your existing space saves costly moves and the associated time.  In addition, mezzanine systems save you more by utilizing existing heat, light, and cooling. 

 

Multi-Tier provides tax benefits too.  Under most tax laws, multi-tier is equipment, not real property.  This minimizes or avoids additional property taxes and allows the depreciation advantages granted equipment over buildings.

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Pushback Pallet Rack

Today, warehouse space is at a premium, and due to its cost; engineers are constantly inspecting and trying to create ways to better utilize both existing floor and vertical space. Additionally, company management is always seeking ways to make better use of the time and motion of warehouse employees through, among other things, improved accessibility of pallet rack products. All of this is in the direction of improving that ever important bottom-line, and the solution for many warehouse situations is the pushback pallet rack.

Pushback pallet racking is a storage system that allows pallets to be stored one behind the other on a series of nested carts. Pallets are loaded and unloaded from the same side of the system, eliminating separate aisles for each function. When one pallet is pulled, the one behind it rolls forward. The system is composed of a stable rack to which is added a series of inclined rails and carts.

Pushback pallet racks eliminate the need for multiple aisles in a warehouse, allowing much higher density yet with increased product access. They actually allow up to 90% more product storage than traditional selective rack systems and up to 400% more selectivity than drive-in racks.

A common use for the pushback system is frozen food storage. Because freezer space is so expensive to build and maintain, storage density is necessary. For example, a 20,000-pallet pushback racking system installed inside the freezer of a major ice-cream manufacturer, and another installed inside a cooler of the dairy division of a large Midwestern food conglomerate. Both of these companies were seeking to maximize every possible square inch of storage space, and these systems were the answer.

Any enterprise, especially distribution or manufacturing in which there is a lower number of SKUs in high rotation, greatly benefits from pushback pallet racking.

Since every system is made to order, spatial and weight circumstances are taken into consideration. In addition to standard pallet sizes, pushback pallet racking can be designed to accommodate non-standard pallets such as plastic pallets, skids, and special metal containers, and can be built with a weight capacity of up to 3,000 pounds per pallet.

With today’s high cost of space and labor, warehousing enterprises are finding the pushback pallet rack to be one of the most efficient storage solutions.

 

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