La Plataforma de la Construcción (The Platform of the Construction), a company of the French group Saint Gobain (leader in the distribution of building materials in Europe) has become a benchmark in the market by offering products and innovative solutions with qualified technical advice, a wide range of exclusive services and a guaranteed stock.
The company, that has as it’s main goal to make the day to day work of the construction professionals easier, has relied on the professionalism of AR Racking (company specialized in the design, manufacture and installation of solutions of industrial storage, based in the North of Spain) for the installation of its new Logistics Centre in Madrid.
AR Racking has designed a project with three types of storage solutions to adapt to the storage needs of the different construction materials of the company on a warehouse surface area of more than 5,600 m2. The Adjustable Pallet Racking (APR) system installed is a conventional pallet racking system designed to store pallets mechanically by means of forklifts. The structure reaches a height of 7,000 mm and in all levels safety grilles have been placed to allow the storage of 3,000 pallets of different sizes.
The AR LS manual picking Longspan shelves due to their versatility allow manual storage of medium and small size materials and adapt to all types of load units. With a height also of 7,000 mm, 1,540 levels of 2700 wide x 700 high have been installed.
As for the Cantilever system installed (the solution for storing long and bulky loads), it has a height of 5,500 mm. With 5 load levels (floor plus four levels), this shelf has been designed to store profiles of different sizes and diameters.
Alfonso Peña, from the commercial department in Madrid for AR Racking, affirms that “in AR Racking we adapt to the storage needs of our client and we are able to install as many types of shelves as product types are stored. This adaptability is one of our added values”.
For his part, Carlos García, director of the Logistics Centre, commented: “our commitment is to make the work of the construction professionals easier and with this new warehouse we have made it possible for our customers to find what they are looking for more easily and in less time”.
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