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Warehouse Storage Resources & Guides

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Used Industrial Shelving: What to Check Before You Buy

Used Industrial Shelving: What to Check Before You Buy

Used industrial shelving is a good buy when the posts are straight, the shelves are flat and no hardware is missing. If you're adding units to shelving you already have, the posts, clips and shelves have to work together, and parts from different makers often don't....

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Used Pallet Racking: Costs and What to Check Before You Buy

Used Pallet Racking: Costs and What to Check Before You Buy

Used pallet racking usually costs well under factory-order new rack, and in-stock material can often ship the same week instead of waiting on a manufacturer's production schedule. Those savings only hold if the steel passes inspection and fits what's already on your...

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How to calculate pallet rack weight capacity

How to calculate pallet rack weight capacity

Pallet rack weight capacity isn't one number, it's three: beam capacity, upright capacity, and bay capacity, and the lowest of the three is what your rack actually holds. A beam pair rated at 5,000 pounds carries that load across both beams on the level, not per beam,...

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Why used equipment solves supply chain lead time problems

Why used equipment solves supply chain lead time problems

New domestic pallet racking takes about 14 weeks to reach your dock, and in the last equipment crunch that stretched to 18 or 20. Used warehouse equipment cuts the wait to days, because the steel already exists and skips mill lead times, fabrication backlogs, and...

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Preparing your facility for liquidation

Preparing your facility for liquidation

Every rack in our inventory is inspected, quality-graded, and ready to ship. You get structural steel at a fraction of the cost of new, with the same load ratings and the same performance. No waiting on factory lead times. No compromising on quality.Tell us your floor...

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How to design an efficient warehouse layout

How to design an efficient warehouse layout

Efficient warehouse layout design starts with product flow, not rack placement. Map how goods move from receiving to storage to pick to shipping, then set aisles, slotting, and racking around that path. Most floors slow down because the layout gets treated like...

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