Navigating the warehouse racking industry can be a challenging task. There are hundreds of designs, manufacturers, suppliers and installers of storage equipment in the UK, ranging from sole traders through to multi-million-pound corporations. For companies, the responsibility for storing hundreds of tonnes of pallets above working colleagues’ heads is a serious one and the health & safety legislative environment has never been more onerous, says Elizabeth Porter, the first female Chair of the SEMA Distributor Group. An incorrectly supplied or damaged racking system can prove to be, at best, a costly and time-consuming problem that takes your storage out of action. It can result in injury to your employees which then leads to an extensive HSE investigation leaving company finances and Director’s personal liabilities exposed. The relationship between the customer and the racking supplier should ideally last the lifetime of the storage system. Best practice should follow through the lifetime of the racking system; from safe manufacture offering full traceability of product, safe design to meet SEMA’s strict codes of practice and safe installation by qualified labour. Once in-situ, the installation will need to be maintained properly to keep the storage racking in good working order.
This article was first published in the April 1st 2022 issue of Warehouse & Logistics News, subscribe to the magazine by clicking here.
EHLIS, a leading company in Spain in the distribution of hardware products, has expanded its logistics capacity with the opening of its new clad-rack warehouse equipped by the industrial storage solutions specialist AR Racking. The logistics centre in this locality is based on the design and installation of AR Racking’s galvanised clad-rack warehouse solutions, which apart from storing the load makes up the structure of the building.
With this clad-rack warehouse which occupies 3,125 m2, EHLIS can store around 30,000 pallets distributed on a combination of both single and double deep racking systems.
Logistex has completed a £10m project for B&Q at their Distribution Centre in Worksop, UK. The solution brings together a range of technologies including a pallet decant system, Goods To Person (GTP) stations, a tote shuttle system, and robotic palletisers. The decant process efficiency was increased by 86% with the addition of 16 automatically fed pallet decant stations.
United Storage Systems installed a 10m x 10m mezzanine floor with a 2.6m and 38mm decking finished floor level at Speedy Transport Limited’s new Aberdeen location. The mezzanine included a handrail, one pallet gate and a staircase. In addition, USS fitted five bays of retail shelving for merchandise.
It is excellent to see more storage solutions being rolled out in a way that maximises both profit and safety.
George Simpson
Features Editor
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