Warehouse Racks and Storage Racking Applications

Warehouse racks can include pallet racks, storage racks, shelving rack, cantilever rack, mezzanine rack, catwalk rack, and almost any other type of steel racking systems.

Warehouse racking comes in many forms and is used for light duty rack applications to heavy duty rack applications.

Conveyor & Storage Solutions has been designing warehouse rack storage systems for the material handling industry for over 15 years. Following is a list of the most common types of warehouse racks found in warehouse facilities.

Warehouse Racks for Pallet Storage

Warehouse racking used for pallet storage is the most common system found in warehouses. Pallet racks come in different sizes to accommodate the many various pallet sizes. Pallet racking is either rolled-formed or structural racks. Also, pallet racks are manufactured and engineered for light duty loads such as apparel, to heavy duty loads like cement and tile.

Warehouse pallet racking can be modified to better handle certain applications or to increase the storage density within a warehouse. One such example is with pushback pallet racks. Pushback pallet rack is a LIFO accumulative pallet rack storage system that allows you to store up to five pallets deep per level increasing storage up to 60% over standard selective pallet racks. Others type of pallet rack systems commonly used in warehouse storage are double deep pallet racks (used with reach forklift trucks), drive-through & drive-in pallet racks, and flow pallet racks.

Another pallet rack modification can be seen in its ability to be used for multi-level catwalk storage systems. See below.

Used Warehouse Pallet Racks Can Save Time & Money

C&SS has the largest inventory of new and used pallet rack in San Diego County. The benefits of buying new & used pallet racks include savings in both time and money. Our inventory of used material handling equipment also includes warehouse shelving, conveyor, cantilever, catwalk systems, and many other items.

Cantilever Racks for Warehousing Long, Bulky Items

Cantilever rack is ideal for storage of long, bulky product like pipe, carpet rolls, tubing, lumber, and other similar items. C&SS provides two types of cantilever racking systems. For light-to-medium duty, we offer a roll formed cantilever rack with an extra heavy-duty saddle connection. For heavy-duty warehouse storage, we offer a robust structural cantilever rack system produced from varying sizes of structural 'I-beams'.

Warehouse Racking & Boltless Shelving

Warehouse boltless shelving racks are widely used throughout the distribution and manufacturing industry, and are found in almost every building. The most common type of shelving uses a boltless connection between the vertical upright and the horizontal beams, along with particle board, wire decks or metal shelves for decking. This warehouse racking, better known as shelving, is typically used to store smaller items such as boxes, tools, and supplies. Its flexibility however, makes it perfect to build multi-level catwalk storage systems.

Do You Have Wasted Space in Your Warehouse? Catwalk Systems May be the Answer.

There are many reasons companies choose multi-level catwalk storage system. The number one reason is to take advantage of the wasted space above single levels warehouse shelving. Many companies are struggling for warehouse space and wasting time double-handling products because storage space is limited.

A multi-level catwalk storage system has at least one level above the floor level, stairs to access upper floors, grated aisle floors, and may double or triple the storage space of single level warehouse racks. A vertical reciprocating conveyor may also be installaed to transport materials between floors. Another option is installing a landing zone for pallets from a forklift. Catwalk systems are used in low volume and high volume operations.

Catwalk systems are built with either pallet racks or boltless shelving. Pallet racks can be used to create multi-level order picking operations. We show a good example of a multi-level order picking catwalk system built from pallet racks in our high density records storage section of our website. We also have a good example of one built with boltless shelving is our records storage open shelf file system. Lastly, we show how the two systems can be integrated together at our recent Sharp project.

Warehouse Racking Services

Some of the warehouse racking services C&SS provides include:

Pallet Rack Installation - professional, experienced and fully insured
Warehouse Rack Repair and Maintenance - cost effective maintenance and replacement
Building Permits for Warehouse Racking - plans and submittal
Warehouse Storage Rack Relocation - space evaluation and layout analysis
New & Used Warehouse Racks and Accessories - competitive price and alternative solutions
Design Build & Application Engineering for Warehouse Racking - professional consulting

Conveyor & Storage Solutions
C&SS is ready to assist you and your company to achieve your objectives through improved material handling. We can schedule a meeting to evaluate your needs and review your options. We can generate an AutoCAD layout with the information collected. Then we submit a final layout design and budget for approval. Once the parts are ordered and shipped to your warehouse we can install the new system. We can also assist you with the permitting process.
Layout design is critical in order to optimize storage capacity and product selectivity while minimizing operating cost. Column and doorway placement, local building & fire codes, slab and soil specs, product requirements, warehouse size and SKU management systems are considered when designing a new layout. Please feel free to call any of our friendly staff at (619) 255-1428, or Email us.