Good Racking Design Is About Balancing Trade-Offs And Constraints

You’ll need to lay out every aisle and bay so that staff can easily access fast-moving inventory without compromising your ability to store the right volume of slow-moving items. You’ll need to create configured zones and flows to support your staff and decide whether you need a pallet or inventory flow system.

The list goes on. Fortunately, you don’t have to make these decisions in a vacuum. Racking specialists with over four decades of experience, we offer a bespoke racking design service that’s designed to help you pinpoint the optimum layout and configuration.

Warehouse Racking Project

Since launching our business in 1977, we’ve designed warehouse and storage racking systems for department stores and media conglomerates, building supply specialists and fulfilment centres across the UK.

We’ve helped house-name brands like the BBC fit out brand new warehouses, and we’ve also helped small, family-run businesses to make relatively minor tweaks to their racking layout – designed to drive a tangible boost to throughput without necessitating a costly overhaul of their existing infrastructure.

Blending Problem-Solving Skills With Keen Commercial Awareness

It’s rewarding to know you’ve designed an incredibly efficient racking system. But ultimately, we understand that your primary concern is maximising storage space, improving inventory flow and removing bottlenecks.

Those all-important KPIs guide everything we do, modulating a methodology that draws on years of hard-won experience. To explain, we’ll walk you through our five-step process when we’re asked to design a new racking system.

In It For The Long Haul

Your inventory may change daily, but your pallet racking system should be designed so that it performs for years to come. In an ideal scenario, the lifespan of your racking system would be measured in decades. While that’s not always the case, we approach every project as if the intention is to design a system that would support your processes in the long term.

Most of our systems are flexible enough to support a substantial shift in methodologies, and most units or bays are constructed in a way that allows for reconfiguration by a professional racking specialist.

But we’re not just talking about the practicalities here: Long-term defines every aspect of our design philosophy, from the materials we choose to the layouts we prioritise and the support we offer our clients.

We commit to the job when you ask us to design a racking system for your warehouse or retail space. We’ll make ourselves available to answer questions and brainstorm new ideas with your team; we’ll help you troubleshoot bottlenecks and remove any inefficiencies that crop up – even if you don’t notice them for the first 3+ months of operating with your new system.

We form long-term partnerships because we care about our reputation and recognise that our business is more sustainable when it offers a premium service to UK businesses that share our commitment to sustainable and efficient practices.

Irrespective of whether you ask us to cover the entire design and installation process or draw on our expertise to create a layout and then ask someone else to supply your racking, we always aim to deliver unparalleled service and support.