RAXEL STORAGE SYSTEMS LTD of Lincolnshire, suppliers of pallet racking, shelving and mezzanine floors, have been selected to supply and install a versatile Carton Flow system into a leading catalogue retailer’s warehouse in the South West.

Due to increased demand for their catalogue products, the client needed to transform their floor level picking from pallets into a flexible system to increase the capacity and efficiency of their pick lines.

Raxel worked closely with the warehouse’s Operations and Line Managers to develop a versatile picking solution suitable for storing a wide variety of shapes and sizes of products and cartons, incorporated into the client’s pallet racking system.

The ‘Flow Rack’ system boasted a bed full of wheels for each level, enabling items; ranging from small boxes of batteries to large cartons of kettles; to flow down to ‘Pickface’ without fear of falling through or becoming trapped between rows of wheels. The ingenious design also allowed the customer to designate 4 separate picking lines per level without the need for lane dividers.

Unlike many Carton Flow solutions currently on the market, the ‘Flow Rack’ did not require any middle beams, freestanding structure or track location clips. It was installed simply by using hook-over brackets fitted over front and rear pallet racking beams, giving a loading capacity of 1000kg per bed.

Upon swift installation, the customer had gained 12 new Pickfaces per bay, increasing their picking capacity from 500 lines to nearly 1,500.

Raxel were very pleased to win the contract, which gave them the opportunity to work again with the client 5 years after they had installed the customer’s 42,000 pallet warehouse back in 2006.