Kelkay are a market leader in manufacture and a supplier to many gardening retailers for items such as paving flags, decorative aggregates, water features and many other landscaping materials.
Due to the client manufacturing multiple pallets of the same products, they required a suitable system capable of utilising the space on site. This is where the ‘drive-in racking’ system is the most suitable system as this allows maximum use of the available space when storing multiple bulk pallets. The pallets sit directly onto rails and is guided towards the rear of the system and lowered onto the rail. Further pallets can be added creating a level of pallets back to back. In this instance, the system was 5 pallets deep. These systems are known as FILO (First In, Last Out) which refers to the first pallet being stored at height and not being able to be accessed until the lower pallets are removed. Therefore, this type of system is ideal for bulk storage of the same product in each lane.
Warehousing Solutions was invited by Mawdsley Brooks to tender for a complete fit out of their new 180,000ft² distribution premises in Doncaster.
The tender involved designing, supply and installation of a total of 29,205 Pallet Locations. This comprised of 14,414 VNA (Very Narrow Aisle) pallet locations. A further 12,472 wide aisle pallet locations within the temperature controlled section and an additional 1,794 pallet locations within a secure controlled drug area. We also provided 294 pallet locations within a fridge and then finally 231 pallet locations into a designated quarantine area.
Warehousing Solutions won the business against a number of competitors and installation commenced in early February 2018, with a 4 month build programme.
The most interesting challenges Warehouse Storage Solutions faced within this project was to design the racking within the controlled drug store. This was basically a very large safe that consisted of a metal box measuring 40,000mm long x 18,000mm deep. Next to the controlled drug store we designed a secure store that consisted of a full mesh enclosure including a mesh roof. Additionally Warehousing Solutions provided rack protection and end barriers within all of the racking systems
Warehousing Solutions were appointed by Moran Logistic to fit out their new Distribution Warehouse in Castle Donnington. This project was awarded off the back of the successful contract completed at their Oldham site.
We designed, supplied and installed 9,200 pallet locations into the new site. The pallet racking is 12,500mm high with each level capable of taking a uniformly distributed load of 2,500Kg.
Warehousing Solutions was also awarded the complete office fit out which we have now completed and the warehouse is now fully operational.
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