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Heavy duty Shelving

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Warehouses, hospitals, retail outlets, restaurant kitchens and stores, stock-rooms, cargo holding sheds, offices and libraries require heavy duty shelving for their storage needs. This type of shelving system ensures that the inventory stays safe and protected while being easy to retrieve when required.

What's available

One of the main requirements of heavy duty shelving units is that they should be sturdy enough to withstand the maximum load capacity they're capable of carrying without sagging, warping or bending. This is to ensure the safety of your goods and the people who operate the shelving systems. Hence, most heavy duty shelving is constructed of metal uprights with strong metal cross beams. The shelves may be wood, chip-board or metal. The entire unit may be bolted down to the floor with the aid of floor-clamps attached to the feet of the shelving unit.

Thus there is no fear of the shelving unit tipping over or shifting while being loaded or unloaded. Some other varieties of heavy duty shelving can be anchored to the wall by means of clips attached to the uprights. Bolt-less units are also available so the customer can assemble the unit from the kit provided, with the aid of an instruction manual and the rubber mallet provided. Different color options are available, so you can color code your inventory and ensure that different things go into the right color shelves for easy retrieval.

Garage or workshop shelving units may have wire racks instead of solid shelves. They may also have ventilated shelves which are easier to clean and wash down whenever they get too greasy or grimy. Adjustable shelves are another great option for when you have different volumes of loads. Large systems of heavy duty shelving may be interconnected or used as stand-alone units, spread out over a large area of thousands of square feet in a massive industrial warehouse.

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Some of the options available in heavy duty shelving are: Rivet shelving, records storage units, steel and aluminum  rack shelving, wire shelving, long span shelving for storing logs, pipes or concrete blocks, rota-bins etc.

Precautions

The safety and security of your goods is of prime importance in any shelving system. They should remain in the optimum temperature and humidity conditions, pest-free, dust and dirt free, easy to retrieve and identify. However, the safety of your staff and the people who use the shelving system is also equally crucial. Over-loading of shelves, wrong placement of loads, badly maintained systems, careless and rough use, rust, dirt etc can pose huge hazards to the safety and well-being of your staff. Hence all information regarding load-bearing capacity, use of the shelves, emergency numbers of maintenance crew etc should be prominently displayed and these instructions should be strictly enforced.

Selecting the right type of heavy duty shelving can ensure that your goods and staff remain safe and that your business runs efficiently.

I hope you found this article informative and helpful. You can visit Racking for some more information about the Heavy duty shelving and they usually have a nice product selection to choose from.

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Edwin Barry

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on Feb 10, 14