What commercial storage solutions are best for your business?

Which storage is right for you?

With so many commercial storage solutions to choose from, how do you know what’s right for your business?

Choosing which racking or shelving solution suits your business requirements is a bit like choosing the best tool for the job. You, we would hope, wouldn’t hammer in a nail with a screwdriver. And so, as that well-known proverb goes, ‘all commercial storage solutions are not created equal’.

There are a host of commercial storage options to choose from, depending on your unique business requirements and operating procedures.

To advise on the most effective racking and storage solution for your business, we’ll ask you about your product range, average storage times, picking and storing footfall routes, and a good understanding of the space available for you.

The first steps in determining your storage solutions are to:

• investigate and classify your stock itinerary,

• asses your storage time requirements,

• calculate the expected turnover of these products, including footfall to store and pick these items,

• essentially, define the ‘what, where and when’ of product storage before you start to make your decision on selecting the best storage solution.

The four main types of commercial storage solutions

Here, we’ll lay out the four main types of commercial storage solutions. Contact Racking & Shelving Ltd today to revolutionise your warehousing and existing commercial space facilities using one of the following:

• Tried-and-tested horizontal mass storage. This type of storage solution is typically used in general warehousing operations, such as racking and shelving (including cantilever racking) storage solutions.
• Robust, cost-effective lockers and cabinets. These are ideal for storing the personal belongings of workers and students, or media equipment stacks.
• High-end cabinet storage made with exceptional quality materials, for safely storing hazardous substances, PPE, medical or laboratory equipment and satisfying other highly specialised storage issues.
• Bespoke storage spaces and mezzanine floors. Transforming ‘dead’ office and commercial space into operational, effective storage solutions tailored to your work environment or shop floor.

Racking warehousing systems for high-volume storage

Pallet racking is a high-volume industrial storage solution, typically used to store base materials, or pallets of products ready for shipping. Pallet racking is a form of storage that is popular in warehouses and garages as it offers solutions customisable for large areas, critically storing vast quantities and volumes of product.

Pallet racking allows for the storage of products in horizontal rows, with multiple levels, accessible via forklift trucks or vehicles for the rapid picking and storing of batches of products.

Here at Racking and Shelving Ltd, we offer a vast range of innovative and adaptable racking solutions including:

• Adjustable pallet racking – offering robust, configurable racking, ideal for a variable stock inventory
• Very narrow aisle (VNA) racking -capitalising on existing warehouse space
• Push back racking – perfect for deeper storage of multiple batches with the same surface picking area as standard pallet racking
• Drive in / drive through racking – radically cutting down your packing and picking times and process flows
• Pallet live storage solutions – further fine-tuning your warehouse process flows

In addition to our wide range of robust racking solutions that enable efficient, bespoke warehousing capabilities, we also supply racking accessories, to ensure product and personnel safeguarding. These easily deployable solutions include racking protection, anti-collapse mesh systems, rack organisers, and yet more pallet racking accessories.

Our industrial-grade racking solutions are perfect for significant warehousing challenges, aiding businesses that operate with rapid product turnover of large product volumes – suitable for partners in the logistics industry.

Superior quality metal shelving solutions

Investing in effective shelving solutions minimises accidents by keeping vital materials and tools away from main access routes, while additionally adding flexible, accessible, systematic storage facilities for tools and important sundry items.

We offer high-quality metal shelving solutions for clients across Antrim and Northern Ireland, including:

• Tyre racking

• Boltless shelving

• Longspan shelving

• Multi-tier shelving

• Mobile shelving

• Carton live shelving

• Mistral shelving

• Library shelving

Racking & Shelving Ltd is a proud supplier of a host of industrial and commercial shelving systems, to strengthen your commercial and warehouse spaces against costly accidents by keeping tools and products stored safely and conveniently, yet still close at hand.

These racking solutions are ideal for the construction industry and work environments, such as repurposed shipping containers and ad hoc storage units on building sites, or for safeguarding factory shop floors from untidy tool and material stowage.

Low cost lockers and cabinets

Ideal for storing workers’ and students’ personal effects, these cost-effective storage solutions are perfect for both educational and commercial applications. Designed to lock away mobile devices, change of clothes and other personal items at the start of a shift or school day.

We offer a diverse choice of low-cost locker units including:

• Uniform or janitor units
• Low-level cabinet units – ideal for an inclusive work or educational environment, suitable for wheelchair access
• Clean and dirty lockers
• Media tower lockers
• Cloakroom lockers

And many more reasonably priced, rough and ready cabinet solutions. These solutions are ideal for educational institutions operating on strict budgets or businesses operating shift patterns.

Specialised cabinets for hazardous materials and safety equipment

Look no further if your business requires top-drawer quality cabinets, and the safe storage of hazardous or non-hazardous materials, chemical solutions, pharmaceutical compounds and personal protective equipment, or other highly specialised requirements.

When it comes to safeguarding valuable laboratory equipment and supplies, or even more valuable personnel, don’t leave anything to chance. Contact us now, and let us advise you on our high calibre cabinet storage ranges. These are ideal for the safe storage of medical devices, controlled pharmaceutical products, laboratory equipment and hazardous materials.

Our range of robust, protective metal cabinets will safeguard your most valuable assets. These storage systems include:

• Hazardous cabinets
• Fully COSHH-compliant storage cabinets
• PPE cabinets – with shelves ideally configured to hang protective garbs, masks, helmets and other vital PPE items
• Medical hygiene storage cabinets
• Acid and alkaline storage cabinets

These specialised and durable storage systems are perfect for businesses in the pharmaceutical and medical industries, working laboratories, or any professional body or agency requiring the secure storage of PPE.

All our highly specialised industrial cabinets are made from the highest-grade base materials, ensuring high-value protective storage solutions for your pharmaceutical, medical, hazardous or laboratory requirements. Don’t skimp on safety, contact us now to learn about our range of industrial storage products.

Maximise your existing commercial space with mezzanine floors

With recent disruption to supply chains, rapidly expanding businesses and other disruptive technologies, warehousing needs can be highly changeable and unpredictable.

Your storage needs can grow quickly according to the ever-turbulent economic and regulatory landscapes. And equally, they can shrink. So rather than investing in larger premises and increasing your rental spend, it’s a great idea to think more creatively about how to use the space that is already available to you.

Our bespoke mezzanine floors are your perfect solution to ever-changing storage needs, creating more space where you thought you had run out. Building up, as well as across, is one of the best space-saving tactics there are. So if you’re short on space due to the footprint of your premises/warehouse, then perhaps it’s time to consider adding in a mezzanine floor.

If you think our mezzanine floors would be the practical, economic solution your workspace needs, talk to us. At Racking & Shelving, alongside installation we also offer:

• Complimentary site surveys, with absolutely no obligation
• Free CAD design to fully utilise every aspect of your existing workspace
• Handling of all Building Regulations – freeing up your time to focus on your speciality

End-to-end support, installation of superior storage solutions

No matter your storage challenges, unique industry requirements or your final choice of storage, we offer a comprehensive package of support for all our products, allowing you to focus on reaping the rewards of a fully optimised business.

Our comprehensive, end-to-end service package:

• Consultation services
• Delivery/collection services
• Dismantling/ relocation services
• Rigorous post-installation safety checks with ongoing maintenance and service contracts

Bespoke, tailored designs with a professional, dedicated team to advise

• Attention to detail with expert analysis of your business storage requirements, operational and environmental parameters

• Let our friendly, professional team advise you on the most suitable storage solution according to your unique challenges and cost requirements.

Contact us at Racking & Shelving Ltd today for expert advice on intelligent, configurable storage systems that will revolutionise your work environment and process flows, no matter what sector you operate in.