Cantilever Rack
What is Cantilever Racking system?
The cantilever racking system consists of the base, arms, vertical columns, and horizontal/cross bracing. It stores the products which are long or variable in size. The load units support across two or more arms and you can make the shelves wider for varying lengths by fitting the decks across the arms. To design cantilever pallet racks, we have used hot rolled steel. It is a perfect storage option for long and heavy items, including pipes, beams, bars, steel tubes, wooden sheets, etc.
Cantilever racks have become one of the best effective storing solutions in the present day, thanks to its versatility and space saving usage. Heavy, unrelated bulky items sorted according to size and commodity and stored in these racks thereby helping in organizing a manufacturing facility, lumberyard or a warehouse. GKSP Racking solutions offers supreme quality cantilever racks that can promote labor efficiency, avoids injury while offering accuracy in stock taking enabling a better stock management system.
What are the Uses of the Cantilever Racking system?
Cantilever racking, used in several small-scale industries and large-scale industries to store raw materials, goods, and finished products. This system of warehouse storage saves a huge amount of space and also reduces the strain of handling the products.
- Used for storing bulky and heavy products like lumbers, plumbing pipes, steel bars, plasterboard, and trusses.
- It is used for varying-sized objects just by adjusting the arms according to the size of the product.
- These racks used often in industries to store lengthy, bulky, and odd-shaped products.
What are the Advantages of Cantilever Racks?
- Cantilever Racking is easy to install and replace from one location to another location.
- Different shaped products from lumber to huge pipes can be stored easily with less space occupancy.
- The arms adjusted according to the sizes of the objects, as per requirements.
- These racks allow you to store any kind of load, and this flexibility saves time and money.
- Compact in size and less material used to save more space in your warehouse.
- Used as a single side racking by attaching it to walls, or a double-sided rack with the help of I-Beam.
What are the Disadvantages of Cantilever RackS?
- The initial cost or capital investment is high for the installation.
- Space for products, adjusted only by dissembling the arms.
Features of Cantilever Racking Systems:
- Includes a simple structure of the storage rack made up of arms and columns.
- Save horizontal space as there is no front column.
- The great mobility of the shelves and easy to assemble.
- Suitable for all forklift trucks and cranes.
- Adjustable beams according to the size of stored goods.
Conclusion
Cantilever racking is the most efficient way to store long and flat materials. Racking and shelving companies in India like us install the cantilever racking system for you to save your space and money for warehouse storage.
It is one of the fast and easy storage systems used in industries and one thing you need to take care of is the layout and handling system before going for this racking system.