How to choose the right racks for your warehouse
When choosing the best shelving option for your warehouse, first of all, pay attention to what type of goods you plan to work with in the warehouse. It is important to pay attention to the dimensions, weight, use of containers, the presence or absence of warehouse equipment, its types and characteristics, the turning radius (forklift), etc.
There are several main types of metal shelving for a warehouse:
shelf racks;
pallet racks;
cantilever racks;
gravity racks;
mezzanines;
racks for roll products;
racks for cable bundles, etc.
How to choose the right shelving.
The main criterion when choosing shelving racks is the maximum load per shelf.
According to this criterion, it is necessary to divide the entire mass of shelving racks into several "weighted" ones. Categories:
Shelf racks with a shelf load of 80 to 300 kg.
If you have a small business – workshop, service center, service station, sewing workshop, small online store, small grocery or non-grocery store with an auxiliary warehouse, then you will most likely be satisfied with a shelving system with a load of 80-300 kg. on the shelf.
You should also pay attention to the dimensions of your products and choose the optimal depth of the shelves for storing these products. The depth of the shelves in this category of shelving is from 300 to 920 mm, which is enough to store enough dimensional items, such as fabric in rolls, rolls of wallpaper.
It should also be noted that this category of shelving has a maximum load limit of 300 kg for a single shelving unit; 500 kg.
A unique system of boltless connection of all nodes is used. Racks are conveniently and quickly assembled and disassembled. Do not require small fasteners, which are often lost. These racks are equipped with metal bearings, which, unlike plastic ones, are wear-resistant and do not delaminate under heavy loads.
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The frame elements of the racks are made of steel or galvanized steel sheet 1 mm thick.
Shelves are used as flooring:
It is not recommended to use flooring as chipboard in rooms with high humidity.
Also, we recommend our customers to order these racks without chipboard, as it is often cheaper to order and cut chipboard on site (if it is a remote region).
The rack frame can be either fully galvanized or powder coated white.
Where our customers use racks with a shelf load of 80 to 300 kg.:
For small warehouses, the simplest and most affordable options for metal racks with a load capacity of 80-300 kg per shelf are sufficient. and height 1813, 1960, 2500 mm. The length of one section is from 300 to 920 mm.
Such racks will provide order, convenient accounting of leftovers and efficient use of small areas.
You can also buy racks as sales racks. Indeed, the price of such a rack is 2-3 times cheaper than the price of a conventional retail rack.
Shelf racks with a shelf load of 300 to 500 kg.
This category of shelving is convenient and practical in terms of storing sufficiently large volumes of products in separate warehouses with manual maintenance.
Metal racks with a load capacity of 300-500 kg per shelf. structurally differ little from the previous category. Collapsible racks are designed for storage of container and piece cargo.
The frame elements of the racks are made of steel or galvanized steel sheet 1 mm thick.
Shelves are used as flooring:
The length of one section varies from 920 to 1840 mm, which makes it convenient to serve larger loads.
If the permissible load on a stand-alone rack of the previous category could not exceed 300 kg, then in this case – the allowable load on the rack is 950 kg, and on standing several in a row – up to 1200 kg. p>
Our customers actively use these racks as:
You can buy a rack without chipboard flooring, you can order it and cut it on the spot, which we often recommend to our customers, especially if the customer is located in a fairly remote region from Kiev, because we are an open and honest company with our customers;)</ p>
Shelf racks with 500 shelf load – 1100 kg
Warehouse equipment includes more complex shelving designs.
Designed according to the technology of pallet racks, reinforced shelving racks consist of prefabricated frames and traverses, on which shelves made of 16 mm sanded chipboard, 16 mm laminated chipboard, or 0.8 mm galvanized or painted metal shelves are placed.
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Such metal shelving for a warehouse is a full-fledged professional warehouse equipment, designed for loads per rack section up to 4000 kg.
Shelving frame elements made of steel sheet or galvanized steel sheet 1.5 mm thick.
The frame of the racks can be galvanized or painted. Painting is made by powder polymeric paint. Racks, cross-beams, braces and shelves are painted blue (RAL-5005), beams, thrust bearing and stiffener - orange (RAL-2004).
Standard frame heights – 2000 and 2500 mm. or other heights up to a maximum of 5000 mm are possible.
For the stability of this type of racks, the minimum number of tiers (shelves) - 2 pcs. For other rack heights, the minimum number of shelves is determined individually and depends on the loads and rack height.
When using reinforced rigidity beams, these racks can be used as pallet racks with a maximum frame load of 2000 kg.
The length of the shelving beam is from 1230 to 2450 mm, which allows you to choose the most suitable option for loads and room configuration. Shelving depths are 495-895 mm, which is the optimal range for most heavy loads. "600" />
Rack data beam modifications are used as tire racks. Tire racks are equipped with special beams with chamfered corners for convenient placement of wheels and their long-term storage without deformation. It is possible to order a rack for wheels in combination with a shelf platform. This variant – an excellent solution for tire shops and service stations.
Reinforced shelf racks complete with shelves or beams for wheels are used as:
This category of racks has additional stability with the possibility of fastening through the holes in the thrust bearing to the concrete floor using anchors.
Thus, all three categories of warehouse racks have their purpose and tasks. Some – compactness, ease of assembly, other – versatility and endurance to heavy loads.
Having studied the features and differences of the three main groups of shelving racks, you have most likely already decided what exactly suits you as warehouse or commercial equipment, tire storage equipment, pallets with a load of large or small piece goods.
For more detailed information, you can contact our specialists.
OLTEBA – a team that brings together people with many years of experience in the warehouse and commercial equipment industry.
