PALLET RACKING SYSTEM
- Designed to suit your needs and available space
- Bolted or welded system
- Static or dynamic storage
- Requires use of forklift truck
- Products stored on pallets
- Maximize available building height
A pallet racking system is a vertical storage system that optimizes warehouse space and facilitates inventory management. Whether you’re a manufacturing, distribution or logistics company, pallet racking can help you improve your warehouse efficiency. MSK has been designing safe, optimized pallet racking systems for over 30 years.
What are the benefits of a pallet racking system?
Regardless of the type of pallet racking or racking system used, the advantages
of a well-organized warehouse are numerous.
Increased storage capacity
Pallet racking allows you to use the vertical space in your warehouse, considerably increasing storage capacity. With pallet racking, you can stack pallets on top of each other, making full use of the available height. This allows you to store more products without having to expand your warehouse.
Increased storage capacity
Pallet racking allows you to use the vertical space in your warehouse, considerably increasing storage capacity. With pallet racking, you can stack pallets on top of each other, making full use of the available height. This allows you to store more products without having to expand your warehouse.
Cost Reduction
Pallet racking is an economical storage solution that helps reduce storage costs. With pallet racking, you can store more products in a smaller space, reducing warehouse rental costs. In addition, pallet racking helps reduce product handling costs, facilitating storage and retrieval.
Increased safety
Pallet racking allows products to be stored safely and securely. The pallets are stacked on top of each other, using hardware to avoid any risk of falling. This reduces the risk of product damage and employee injury.
What are the different types of pallet racking systems?
Racking in your warehouse is a very important system that needs to be carefully designed according to your products, your operations and your space. In addition to the number of pallet positions, the type of system used must take into account your products, handling equipment and operations. Here’s an overview of the different categories and their racking types:
A static racking system uses shelving to store goods. Pallets are placed on these racks and handling equipment is used to load and unload the racking. This system is widespread because, in addition to being highly customizable and inexpensive, it can improve the use of space in a warehouse.
This type of static racking is the simplest and most common. Pallet racks are positioned in back-to-back rows, separated by forklift aisles. Each pallet faces the front.
A deeper, back-to-back version of the single-depth pallet rack. This racking system can store more material of the same type and increase the density between aisles.
Dynamic racking systems can further increase storage capacity and, through additional technical components, can speed up or improve the order picking process.
A reverse-gravity system consists of a racking system with a downward slope towards the front, on which pallets are positioned on mobile carts. A reverse-gravity pallet rack operates on the “last in, first out” principle. When the operator loads a new pallet, it pushes on the previous one.
A gravity pallet system, or pallet flow, is organized as a deep tunnel with a downward slope that operates under the “first in, first out” concept. Pallets are loaded at the top of the slope and picked up at the bottom. Pallets are moved by a system of rails or rollers.
The drive-in pallet rack offers very high pallet storage capacity and density. On the other hand, it offers little in the way of a pick-up front, making it ideal for situations where large quantities of the same product need to be stored.
A mobile pallet racking system offers extremely high density by eliminating traffic aisles between rows of shelving. Rows of shelving are installed on mobile carts that move to provide access to products.
How to optimize your warehouse using pallet racking?
Taking on a racking project on your own can be daunting. You have to comply with the standards, consider the loads to be stored while keeping safety in mind. In addition, the available space must be maximized. MSK can help you with this process. For 30 years, our teams have been designing pallet racking systems taking into account your products, your installations and your processes. Contact us to start your next warehouse storage project.