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Pallet Rack Vendors:

Jaken
United Material Handling
UMH
Ridg-U-Rak
Steel King Industries, Inc.
Advanced Equipment Company, Inc.
Specialized Storage Systems Inc.
American Material Handling Corp.Atlanta Pallet Rack
Advance Storage Products, Div. of J.C.M. Industries, Inc.
Bulldog Rack Company
Frazier Industrial
Hannibal Industries, Inc.
Husky Rack & Wire
Interlake Mecalux Inc.
Nedcon USA Inc.
Ningbo Xinguang Rack Co, Ltd.
Rack Builders, Inc.
RACKUSA / Tear Drop Rack
Speedrack Products Group, Ltd.
SpaceRak, Division of Heartland Steel Products, Inc.
Unarco Material Handling, Inc.
United Material Handling, Inc.
Xiamen Luckyroc Industry Co,.Ltd.
Ridgi-rack
UMH
NAWL
Teilhaber
Space Rack
Spacesaver
Stanley Black & Decker/Vidmar
Worldwide Material Handling
Global Industrial
Tri-Boro
UniRak
Nashville Wire (Decking)
Vestil (Structural Rack)
Industrial Netting (Pallet Rack Netting)
Beastwire/Space Guard (Pallet Rack Guarding and Caging)
ExGlobe (Pitch and Spring Rail Rack)
ITC (Galvanized Pallet Rack & Accessories)
Speed Cell (Pallet Rack Organizer Hanging cells)
Interlake (Original Style)
USP
Lodi Metal-Tech
Steel King
Shoppas
Ridg-U-Rack
Teilhaber Penco
Interlake
Durham, Nashville Wire
Mecalux
Ohio Rack
Rid-u-Rack
Tier-Rack
Artco (Tube) Pallet Rack
Buckley Pallet Rack
Burtman, Structural Pallet Rack '
Altrui Pallet Rack
Dexion Pallet Rack
EMI Pallet Rack
Frick Gallagher Pallet Rack
Husky Crashguard Pallet Rack
Inca Pallet Rack
Lok-Rack Pallet Rack
Palmer Schile Pallet Rack
Sammons/Bloom Pallet Rack
Unarco II Pallet Rack
Keystone Style Pallet Rack
T-Bolt (Unarco) Pallet Rack
Speedrack Pallet Rack
Paltier Pallet Rack
Structural Pallet Rack
Sturdi-Bilt Pallet Rack
Ridg-U-Rack Pallet Rack
Webb/Slide-N-Lock
Hiline Pallet Rack
Penco Pallet Rack
Amerlok Pallet Rack
Artco Pallet Rack
Buckley Mastorak Pallet Rack
EMI Air-Row Pallet Rack
Engineered Products Pallet Rack
Frick Gallagher Pallet Rack
Hallowell Pallet Rack
Hi-Line Pallet Rack
Husky Pallet Rack
Inca Backbone
Konstant Pallet Rack
Lyon Pallet Rack
M-I-Rak Pallet Rack
Mecalux Pallet Rack
Nedcon Pallet Rack
Palmer-Shile Pallet Rack
Paltier Pallet Rack
Prest / Jarvis-Webb Pallet Rack
Redi-Rack Pallet Rack
Republic Pallet Rack
Sammons Pallet Rack
Speedrack Pallet Rack
Structural Pallet Rack
Frazier Structural Pallet Rack
Sturdi Built Pallet Rack
T-Bolt Pallet Rack
Unarco II Pallet Rack

Need a brand you don't see listed? Please phone in to see if we carry it.

FAQ

Q: What are the standard beam widths?
A: 8, 9, 10 and 12 feet

Q: What are the standard upright heights?
A: 8, 10 ,12, 15, 16, and 20 feet high

Q: What are the beam capacities?
A: Beam capacities vary greatly from light weight capacities to extremely heavy duty. Common requirements are 3,500 to 7,000 pounds.

Q: What size columns do uprights have?
A: 3" x 3", 16 gauge and 14 gauge

Q: Are there seismic foot plates?
A: Yes, 5 " x 8"

Q: Is wire mesh decking available?

A: Yes, in a wide variety of sizes to match beam widths and depths.

Q: What is the weight capacity of the uprights?
A: Uprights range from 16,000 to 24,000 pounds.

Q: What colors are available?
A: A variety of colors are available depending on manufacturer.

Q: What style of upright holes are available?
A: Tear Drop

Q: What are typical depths for pallet?
A: Rack depths of 36" 42" 48" are typical but others are available, please call.

Q: Are frames bolted or welded?
A: They can be either. In the US welded is more common while worldwide bolted are more common.

Q: What accessories are available for pallet rack?
A: Post frame guards, row spacers, safety supports, label holders, bay dividers, steel and wire decking, safety netting, and many more.

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Pallet Rack Applications:

Distribution Centers
Warehouse and Manufacturing
Pallets
Furniture, Table Tops Without Legs
Bulk Items or Large Materials
Tubs and Drums
Medical Supplies
Nutritional Supplements
Automotive Parts
Hydaulic Oil
Carpet
Truck Parts
Furniture
Sinks
55 Gallon Drums
Car Parts
Motor Oil
Title
Tractor Parts
Paint
Wire Spools
Cases and Boxes
Fencing Parts
Plumbing Supplies and Stock
Sprinkler Supplies and Stock
Baby Clothes
Orbit Sprinkler Parts
Nutrition Supplement Picking and Storing
Raw Candy Ingredients 
Street Sign Storage
Yoga Mats
Billiards and Game Room Stock
Marijuana
Cannabis
hemp

Pallet Rack Case Studies:

Storage of Phone Equipment on Pallet Rack

Pallet Rack Shelving for Storage of Parts to Assemble and Store High Tech Medical Procedure Equipment

Bio Repository Storage Racks

Top Primary Industries
Using
Pallet Rack:

We will list some top Industries using pallet rack but almost everyone uses rack!
Government
Industrial
Commercial
Manufacturing

Pallet Rack Literature Brochures
and Catalogs:


United Material Handling Pallet Rack Brochure


Advanced Structural Pallet Rack Brochure

Advanced Carton Flow Pallet Rack Brochure

Jaken FastRak Bulk Storage Shelving Brochure

Jaken Pallet Rack Brochure

Jaken Stock, Reel & Tire Racks Brochure

NAWL: North American Wholesale Logistics / Spectrum Quick Ship Pallet Racking Brochure

World Rev Pallet Rack Repair Brochure

SpaceGuard Pallet Rack Safety Mesh Guard Brochure

Sammons Style Pallet Rack Brochure
Jaken Bulk Rack Brochure
Jaken Boltless Rivet Shelving
Interlake Mecalux Pallet Rack Brochure
Unarco Pallet Rack Brochure
Interlake Mecalux Drive In Pallet Rack
Interlake Push Back Rack Brochure
Bulldog Cantilever Rack Brochure
Bulldog Pallet Rack Brochure

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Installing Pallet Rack:

Pallet Rack should be installed by a professional installation company skilled in the install of pallet rack. Like so many products it seems simple on the surface but everyone who uses it relies on the proper installation. In traffic areas with many transactions and staff moving around it and product moving on and off with for trucks, pallet jacks and other equipment it needs to be be stable in all situations. Plus local building codes need to be enforced to make it sake for your staff and others entering your work areas where the rack is installed and used. OSHA has many safety requirements that update and need to be checked when installing pallet rack. Some include anyone working more than four feet off the ground need fall protection. installers many also need gloves and hart hats. Due to the weight some uprights and beams may need a group lift or mechanical way to move the rack into place. Pallet Rack should be installed square and plumb. A 1/8 inch vertical variance is acceptable per four feet of rack. Square each section and check with a level. Anchoring has become very specific from area to area to comply with code. It is getting very difficult to get used rack to conform with local building codes upon installation and can cause great frustration when someone has purchased used rack to save some money then found out they need to scrap or resell it and purchase new rack to meet current building and earthquakes codes.

The History of Pallet Rack:

If you ever saw the movie Michale with John Travolta he had a great line. Something to the effect that he invented lines, before that people were just milling around. Funny! Pallet Rack was kind of the same way. From the earliest of times people were making shelves to store what they could put up by hand but heavy items just kept sprawling around taking up floor space and getting in the way. Wood was easily available to make pallets to set heavy and bulk packaged inventory and supplies on to keep them off the floor and safe from flooding and other natural events that could rust or ruin products. But before pallet rack things were just laying around taking up space!

In 1914 corrugated packaging came on the scene to help with packaging bulk items for storage.

Building more space has always been expensive and difficult. Plus you need to heat it and take care of it. Time spent away from the core business that allowed people to make their living. Then came equipment to lift these heavy items and allowed for a heavier shelf, Pallet Rack, to emerge. Forklifts were developed by several companies out of the crane concept around 1915. Once they hit the market the race was on to develop a rack to set the heavier or bulk boxes on to clean up floor space. It was really a perfect storm as Andrew Carnegie was bringing quality and well priced steel to the market which allowed so may products to develop and emerge. As time went by standards evolved for the wood pallet and forklift to work together which allowed for more standards in building pallet rack to house the pallets and allows for easy loading and unloading.

Over time Pallet Rack has evolved into two major types. Structural Rack and Selective Rack also called Roll Formed Rack. Selective and roll formed is very common in warehouses and the major difference is selective rack generally is also the "skin" for new construction allowing a lower cost construction for a warehouse that will be filled with rack as it can significant lower the construction costs associated with the skin or walls. Even in todays world of heavy automation rack has stood the test of time and is still the mostly widely used from of storage in a warehouse.

Step beams are common since they allow the wood or steel decking to fit in to hold pallets or whatever is stored on the rack.

As different forklifts have evolved and space becomes more important than ever very narrow aisle rack VNA where the rack is set very close together to maximize space for storage is becoming more common. In most cases it works with automated pickers so no human error can occur in the narrow aisles.

Common Pallet Sizes for Industries by MH1, 2005

Grocery Pallets: 48 x 40

Chemical Pallets: 42 x 42

Military Pallets: 40 x 48

Beverage Pallets: 36 x 36

The Future of Pallet Rack

There seems no end to the future of Pallet Rack for storage in business. As e commerce and the world wide economy grows the need for massive and dense storage to get stronger and stronger. Robotic retrieve of goods is being built around pallet rack as the central storage product. The robot puts the product away and retrieves it but it is still stored on the rack. Rack is getting more specific to accommodate taller and taller applications. there are many DYI uses for used pallets associated with the use of pallet rack and these are great ways for all of us to participate in keeping all those pallet out of landfills.

Decking Options:

2 x 4 's
Wire Decking
Solid Deck
Pallet Flow Rollers
Engineered Products makes a wide variety of options to compliment your rack:

Flex Track - manufactured in plant in Greenville south Carolina. carton flow flex track is on the rise in sales across America!

30 engineers in the office to help you design your .......

select track. if 12 trays inside of a bay they will have 12 hangers. now they make one hanger to go all the way across to one hanger to lift out. see brochure.

can have a lane divider. products tend to flow diagonally just fine.

tray sits on beam and lift right in and out of there.

flex track mini

product sit inside of frame becoming flush with bay.

1900series 3000 series

plastic skate wheel or metal wheel

brake can be implemented.

beverage distribution

flow racks drop right in without tools

EP has product specific for handling kegs. rollers are designed to work with kegs and keep them safe as they roll down the line.

Carton flow about a third of business, in business 66 years.

EP's main business is as a structural rack manufacturer. They do provide knock down rack for east coast.

Nordstrom uses 20 bay high - 300 feet long

unit load, mini load shuttle systems

textile racking

dock racks to store pallets above dock doors

deep lane shuttle systems

unit load shuttle systems

pick deck

integrated safety deck with pallet flow

Pallet Flow can be manufactured to drop right in during installed on existing rack. EP has lanes. rollers are available from other manufacturers. Interlake makes one , concentric makes one.

Information to help you pick the best rack.

Pallet rack can all look just about the same. You've rolled down the lanes at home depot and if you are on this page have likely seen rack and used rack. So what makes it different? The best thing to do is call in and talk to a representative who can assess your requirements and suggest the best rack to you for your application.

But here are a few ideas for you to give you idea of why a rack salesperson be be of value to you and make you life much much easier! Say the column in rack you are considering are all 3 inches. Well total strength can be determined by many factors. The amount of braces can help strengthen rack. The type of steel is a big factor in determining strength. Some steel is stronger than others. How good are the welds? Some use a closed tube design but most leave a seam which is perfectly fine in most situations and can save you money. You can combine these so any one attribute combined with another can make one or the other superior in load bearing capacities. The closed tube designs can give you up to 250% more frontal impact strength and 68 percent greater side impact resistance than open back styles.

Roll formed rack is made from cold rolled steel and structural rack is made from hot rolled steel. It is exactly as it sounds. One is bent cold the other is done while the steel is red hot. Hot rolled is stronger. Cold rolled rack can be lighter which is important for install costs and shipping. Cold roll is generally rated to about 7,000 pounds and hot rolled structural rack can handle upwards of 30,000. pounds. Quite a difference but will you need to pay for that? Often the answer is no. Quite often in fact. But your application could make the hot worth it for life and safety.

Ease of assembly can also be a factor, and more and more of a factor these days.

Call 866-328-5066 and talk with a pallet rack professional!

The Projected Future of Pallet Rack.

Pallet Rack sales world wide are projected to grow to 7 billion dollars by 2026! Demand for pallet rack is being driven by many factors including increased demand for products like drugs, food and drink, automobiles and textiles. Other factors include increase rents and mortgages of commercial building driving companies to make better use of floor space. In the us market expansion of exports and e commerce require more goods to be stored on rack. Pallet Rack is designed to provide highly efficient storage of countless parts for, inventory, distribution centers, automotive, assembly and storage needs. Pallet Rack is used for palatalization of goods and material for distribution and can also be set up for storage of loose goods and material. Even large retailers have found pallet rack a good looking and inexpensive way to display stock for customer purchase. From a few beams to large installations connected to complex automated storage and delivery systems we can help you determine what you need. Nationwide Shelving can also help you determine if your application and productivity would be better served with either more space efficient solutions or faster picking solutions such as drive in rack, push back rack and gravity flow racks. Our highly trained designers will insure you get the right rack and the most possible storage. From simple to complex solutions for all forms of shelving, including sophisticated multi-level, automated and modular applications we are America's Shelving Superstore for a reason! Pallet Rack provides high capacity storage for everything from light duty to your heaviest pallets!
You can choose how many levels you will need for your products.
Pallet Rack can be purchased with a start unit and add ons. so you can always reconfigure and add on to your pallet rack. Assembly is very easy with Boltless assembly. Additional beams can always be purchased to add levels. Requirements do change these days so pallet rack is very adaptable. Many kinds of decking are available including wire decking and wood decking. This works well for times not stored on pallet or where leakage could occur as wire decking makes cleaning easy. Need extra support for your pallet rack? Cross bars are available! Dividers can also be installed on the wire deck to keep contents organized. Row spacers can be installed between rows to keep space between uprights. Wall brackets can also be added to increase stability and safety. Uprights include floor brackets to mount rack to the floor for stability. seismic floor plates are available.