Monday, December 15, 2008

Commercial Display Racks & Store Shelving

Store shelving is the most inexpensive way to create great store layouts in not so great times.
Making a modest investment in premium, high-quality, decorative store shelving will cause people to immediately tell the difference when they leave a competitor’s store and enter yours. New store shelves place your most important merchandise in positions of significance, making it more likely to sell. No doubt you have already rearranged your displays to create sales and specials. Why not take this one step further with a more creative and effective shelving layout for your store?

There are two different types of store shelving.
Double-sided store shelves are also called “aisle shelves.” They run vertically through your store, creating passageways for shoppers to browse. They are also much easier to move around than are single-sided shelves placed back to back, so you can rearrange your store after Christmas for New Year’s sales events with relatively little effort and downtime.

Single- sided shelves are better used for wall shelves and end caps. The basic horizontal measurement for single-sided display store shelves is 48”, making them ideal stand alone units for convenience store corners or empty spaces on the wall that are not currently earning you any money (but are costing you rent per square foot). Creatively converting unused wall space puts an extra punch in your sales by giving you more room to show more products at once. Also, the compact size of single sided store shelves allows you to create end caps for special promotions and your hottest merchandise.

Procuring quality shelving can help your store reduce losses to theft.
The size and positioning of store shelves plays a pivotal role in keeping your customers honest. Our experience in retail supply has taught us over time that the PERFECT height for an aisle shelf is 72-84 inches. Anything more presents an obstruction to visibility. You don’t need store shelves to be all that tall anyway. Each individual shelf can hold up to 350 pounds and can be moved up or down within the display. Each shelf can also be adjusted to anywhere from 12” to 22” in depth so that lighting is evenly distributed throughout the entirety of your display.

Please do not go charging off buying new store shelving without a plan.
The quantity of the shelving you have in your store is secondary to arrangement of your displays. Easy Rack will help any serious inquirer plan a merchandising layout to ensure they get the best bang for your buck. Just email us blueprints or photos of your store and our staff will plan out a new display layout as part of the shelving quote we send you. We can also provide you with customized shelving and get you displays that are virtually any color you like to match your existing interior decor.

Easy Rack carries a plethora of shelving and racking supplies. It does not matter what kind of new or used shelving you are looking for; chances are we have it:

Warehouse Storage Racks
Bulk Storage Racks
Used Storage Racks
Tire Storage Racks
Used Pallet Rack
Storage Mezzanine Platforms
Pallet Rack Installation
Industrial Storage Racks
Storage Platforms
Pallet Storage Racks
Steel Shelving
Commercial Shelving
Gas Cylinder Storage Cabinets & Racks
Warehouse Storage Equipment
Metal Storage Shelving

Easy Rack carries a wide variety of used pallet racks, commercial shelving, material handling equipment, commercial lighting,and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you.

Our home office is located in Houston, Texas with warehouses located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Tx., Corpus Christi, Texas, El Paso, TX, Brownsville, Texas.

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Commercial Shelving

The benefits of commercial widespan shelving provide both the motivation and the return on investment that justifies their procurement in the first place. The variety of commercial shelving is extensive, ranging from smaller, portable commercial shelves and racks to heavy duty industrial commercial pallet racking systems. The intent behind this diversity is to provide the most efficient conversion of floor space and vertical cube space into an optimum environment for one or more specific types of contents. As a general principle, any item or container that features symmetric or proportional dimensions and has at least one flat surface can be stored on some sort of commercial shelf or metal rack. This is because shelving systems themselves are rectangular in design and provide horizontal storage space in ascending rows. Round containers can be stored on shelves provided they too have a flat surface on the end with a sufficient radius to balance and support their weight. Irregularly sized materials such as tubing, pipe, furniture, Sheetrock, and flooring supplies normally require more specialized storage areas such as those provided by cantilever racks.

Because symmetry and balance determine which materials you can store on heavy duty commercial shelves, weight plays a secondary role in determining which units you will need for your facility. Most 18 gauge and 20 gauge steel shelving units can easily support 400-450 lbs in weight. This is normally sufficient for the average crate or box, and because these commercial shelves feature sufficiently compact builds to be positioned in a number of places, anything from stockrooms to the entirety of a wall can be reorganized with as many of these units as you need to stack and store materials, products, supplies, tools, and even paperwork. (Some of our smaller shelving systems routinely find their way into the offices of managers who use them for easy access to drawings and materials that need to be worked on throughout the day).

Larger commercial shelves, such as cantilever racks are meant for more heavy duty storage. If you are storing parts in large crates, any number of industrial strength shelves can help you safely and efficiently do this. Your choices are best determined by considering three factors when making your selection. The first is safety. With extremely large items or heavy containers, make absolutely certain that you invest in a commercial shelving system whose weight capacity exceeds the total weight of items. Maxing out a brand new storage system is never a good idea. A worker may not be aware of this, store additional materials on a system already at full capacity, and cause the unit to become unstable. The second is accessibility. If you only need to retrieve items from the front of the shelf, commercial wide span systems offer you some of the most powerful storage units in existence and the added stability of resting against a wall. Open ended systems, however, are often required for items that have to be retrieved by a team of people continually throughout the day, such as you see in many assembly lines. Finally, the actual length, height, and depth of the commercial shelf you invest in really needs to be assessed in terms of floor space/vertical cube space conversion. The total dimensions of a shelf are not always indicators of the actual interior, usable storage space. To make certain every square cubic inch pays your back for your investment, talk to your material handling specialist about usable storage solutions, weight capacity, accessibility, and methods of ensuring the unit remains stable and secure in every conceivable scenario.

Easy Rack maintains a full selection of small, mid-sized, and heavy duty steel commercial racking systems, including wide span units that can be used in places ranging from service center areas behind the front desk to large warehouses where voluminous storage must be consolidated along the walls to make way for heavy traffic. If cost is an issue, our procurement and distribution network can locate any commercial shelf you find on our website and obtain it for you in quality, used condition—sometimes for a discount of up to 40%.

Shelving & Storage Solutions
Easy Rack storage solutions and shelves include everything from pallet racks for general pallet storage racks to medium and heavy duty cantilever racks. Both lines of material handling products offer flexibility and customization. High density storage, tool storage, and parts organization can be accomplished with any number of bin storage cabinets and bar racks, maximizing your floor space and converting unused vertical cube space in the process.

Easy Rack specialists can answer all questions you have about which work lights and loading dock light fixtures work best with your specific operations. If you can not find what you are looking for call us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you or visit our material handling blog archives for valuable information.

We are located in Houston, Texas with regional distribution facilities located across the United States including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA , Madison WI

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Friday, April 4, 2008

Custom Made Shelving, Easy Rack Houston, Warehouse Commercial Shelving Systems

Easy Rack manufactures custom-made shelving systems that feature a wide range of steel gauges and engineering designs. Easy Rack custom made shelves are built to anticipate the many aspects of light, medium, and heavy-duty storage requirements.

Each custom shelf is made in the USA and shipped directly to your site where Easy Rack specialists install and tests the system before use.

Custom Pallet Rack Shelves
Custom pallet rack shelving is made wire decking that can be used to support loads of up to 24,000 lbs per upright and 6,000 lbs per pair of beams. Easy Rack makes custom shelving for pallet racks in a wide range of mesh and thickness sizes. Three different types of wire decking are available: waterfall, reverse waterfall, and pop in wire.

Ask your Easy Rack shelving expert which wire decking type is optimal for your facility and the materials you will be storing on your new custom built shelving system.

Industrial Strength Custom Shelving Units
Industrial strength warehouse shelving systems are custom built shelving units that precisely fit the dimensions of your wall, floor space, and vertical cube converted to storage use.

Used industrial strength custom shelves will support up to 2,000 lbs of weight per shelf and are coated with baked enamel and treated with Iron Phosphate for maximum durability and corrosion resistance.

Warehouse Custom Shelves
Custom-built commercial warehouse shelves systems made by Easy Rack are either open-backed or close-backed in design. Both types offer maximum strength for medium duty applications for weight capacitance ranging between 450lbs and 2,000 lbs per shelf.

Easy Rack understand that many of your custom built shelving systems will be sitting near open docks and bay doors and thus be exposed to the elements. We double coat each system with protective materials including Iron Phosphate and baked on enamel. This makes your warehouse shelving more impact resistant and more able to resist extremes in climate. We also have warehouse lighting and loading dock equipment to compliment the shelving.

Rivet/ Widespan Custom Shelving Systems
Easy Rack makes custom-built, Widespan shelving and storage systems from both single rivet and double rivet units. Single rivet custom shelves are ideal for light storage requirements of up to 350 lbs. Easy Rack manufactures custom rivet systems that provide the greatest vertical distance between individual shelves, enabling you to quickly and safely access supplies at will.

Double Rivet pallet shelving can support as much as 1,850 lbs per individual shelf. They are the often the best choice for you most heavy-duty storage needs, and they can be designed by Easy Rack to match your exact load capacitance.

Easy Rack can also custom manufactures the shelves with decking material of your choice, or we can supply you with a number of decking material options recommended by your Easy Rack specialist.

Each double rivet lock unit can measure up to 96” wide by 48” deep, providing the building blocks for a larger, interlocking storage system that can handle the heavy-duty storage needs of even the largest factories and manufacturing facilities.

Easy Rack provides you with a wide variety of commercial shelves, parking lot lighting, material-handling tools, commercial lighting, used pallet racks, commercial grade Christmas lighting supplies, crowd interlocking barriers and used pallet racks-- most made in the USA. We also provide and install modular bus stop shelters installed nationwide. Let us know how we can help!

Having trouble finding what you are looking for?
Contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. We have access to just about any material handling equipment or material handling manufacturer on your list. Click here to read customer reviews of our service and products in our testimonials page, or visit our material handling blog for more information.

Where are you located?
Our world headquarters is situated on the "Texas Gulf Coast" in Houston with shipping centers located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New York NY, Los Angeles CA, Miami, FL. Chicago, IL. Denver CO., El Paso, Texas, Dallas TX, San Antonio, TX, Austin, TX, Boise ID, Atlanta GA, Albuquerque NM, Raleigh-Durham NC, Washington DC, Albuquerque NM, Huntsville AL, Fayetteville AR, Norfolk VA, Madison WI, Corpus Christi, TX, Plano, Texas, Garland, TX, Laredo, Texas, Lubbock, TX.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Steel Warehouse Shelving, Long Span Shelf Units, Warehouse Pallet Storage Racking and Widespan Shelving at Discount Prices.

Steel Warehouse Shelving can transform areas along interior walls and portions of your facility’s vertical cube from wasted space to highly organized, reliable storage space. Both Industrial steel warehouse shelves and long-span/ wide-span units can be interconnected to create steel shelving systems specific to the dimensions of your individual facility.

Easy Rack offers you two major advantages over competing vendors in this arena. We supply both used and new steel shelves, and we will both install and assemble a custom steel shelving system in any facility, anywhere in the United States.

Two of our most popular and highly effective shelving options are as follows:

Industrial Metal Warehouse Shelving:
Steel warehouse shelves can be bolted from bottom to top with adjustable clips that create shelving units and shelving systems capable of supporting up to 2,000 pounds of material. This is often called “box shelving” and allows you to customize (or have Easy Rack customize for you) your industrial metal steel shelving storage system specific to your floor space and warehouse interior ceiling height.

All Easy Rack steel used shelves for warehousing are coated with two protective substances to ensure corrosion free longevity and maximized impact resistance. Warehouse units are treated with iron phosphate and painted with baked on enamel. These layers of protection see to it that your steel shelves last for years and maintain optimal strength and support capabilities in spite of normal wear and tear.

Warehouse industrial shelves can be ordered in either open-backed versions or close-back versions. Open-back models offer more rapid access to materials, whereas close-backed models offer more stability, support, and security for sensitive supplies.

Long-Span & Wide-Span Steel Warehouse Shelving (Rivet Rack Shelves)
These long span steel shelving units are build extra long and are designed to support up to 35,000 pounds of weight. Like warehouse shelves, they can be connected together using self-locking connector clips that make the assembly of your shelving system easy and time-efficient.

Widespan steel shelving units are built from 24-gauge steel shelving that is finished in baked enamel to preserve structural integrity and unit longevity. The beams feature high strength steel construction that utilizes a two-piece design that increases the unit’s center of gravity, enables it to hold enormous amounts of weight, and helps make it more impact resistant to collision.

What Easy Rack Does For You?
Easy Rack stocks a vast inventory of commercial shelving, Commercial Grade Christmas Lights, material handling equipment, commercial warehouse lighting, used pallet racks, plastic barricades and modular prefab buildings installed nationwide. If you cannot find what you are looking for contact us toll free at 1-888-776-3720 and we will find it for you. Click here to read customer reviews of our service and products in our testimonials page, or visit our material handling blog for more information.

Our world headquarters is located in Houston on the Texas Gulf Coast with distribution hubs located throughout the United States that enable us to service all 50 states including New Orleans, La., Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas City, Mo., Mesa, Arizona, Virginia Beach, Va., Omaha, Nebraska, Oakland, California, Miami, Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Arlington, Texas, Beaumont, Texas, Denton, TX, McKinney, Texas, Midland, TX, Killeen, Texas.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Used storage racks can save you up to 50% of the price of new storage racks.

The tangible benefits companies can count on receiving in return for their used storage rack investment is improved time to market, reduced risk of injury and subsequent insurance costs, and reduce and possibly eliminate overtime, all of which drive overhead down and profits up.

So you have unused warehouse space and have determined that you need some used storage racks or a steel mezzanine shelving system. Wonderful! What kind of storage racks do I need? Easy Rack offers many different types of used storage racks including wide span steel storage racks, long span metal shelves, cantilever racks, drive-in or drive thru storage racks, mezzanine shelving systems, rivet shelving, Industrial Shelving, open storage racks, closed industrial shelving, and teardrop style pallet racks that require no tools for installation.

New & Used Pallet Racks Easy Rack offers a wide selection of new & used pallet racks at vary affordable prices. We offer many different styles and sizes to choose from. and acres of racks in stock. We know that organizing your warehouse and finding a suitable place to store materials can be a daunting task. Easy Rack has the solution to maximizing your available space to elevate your product or merchandise off the floor.

Easy Rack carries the following new & used storage racks:

Cantilever Storage Racks
Cantilever racks makes storage of long or awkward materials safe and efficient which saves time and money. Often commercial warehouses put bulky items like aluminum sheets, flake board, dry wall and steel sheets in piles on the floor creating an unsafe and unorganized working environment for warehouse personnel.

Long span Metal Shelves
There is no better material for long span shelving and bolt less long span shelving systems than 24 gauge steel. Wide span shelving units offer the strength, stability, and quality unmatched by other materials such as plastic, wood, aluminum, and other metals. Steel long span shelving is resistant to damage from oxidation, corrosion, and staining.

Industrial Shelving
Easy Rack Has a large variety of industrial shelving sizes as well as open and closed back shelving units. The weight capacity on industrial shelving units can vary from 450 pound up to 2000 pounds. Industrial Shelving have several key components: Posts, End Sheets, Back Sheets, End Braces, Back Braces, Shelf Dividers, Full Length Dividers, Bin Front, Shelf Reinforcements. Shelf Clips, Base Strips, Angle Corner Braces or Gussets and Pos Slice plates.

Tear Drop Style Used Pallet Racks
No two teardrop style pallet racks are not created equal, in fact a buckled pallet rack can cause injury to employees, damage expensive merchandise, loss of time and money to upgrade or replace existing pallet racks. Easy Rack's Teardrop pallet racking systems offer tensile steel columns and heavy channel bracing soundly welded together result in a strong & reliable upright truss members.

Open Industrial Shelving
Industrial open shelving units are available in 5 , 6, 7 , 8, 9 and 10 Shelf units. The Sizes of the units vary from 36" x 12" x 85" to 48" x 36" x 85". Open Shelving Units are a great way to organize your office space as well as a warehouse space.

Steel Warehouse Shelving
Easy Rack manufactures quality steel warehouse shelving that is durable, safe and the most dependable shelving units available in the industry.

New & Used Structural Steel Pallet Racks Our new structural steel line of Pallet Racking is resistant to fork lift damage and has weight bearing capacity to 48,000 lbs at 84"beam spacing as opposed to 35,000 lbs. at 54" beam spacing for a standard pallet rack.

New & Used Cantilever Racks Cantilever racks are used for storage of long or odd shaped materials. Cantilever racks use a 12 or 16 tower in rows of 3 with several sets of steel arms attached to the tower for horizontal storage of long materials such as pipe Easy Rack has a large selection of new and used cantilever pipe racks at discount prices.

Heavy Duty Storage Racks Holding inventory is a very complex business especially for bulky equipment like auto parts, paper products, liquids, or tires. Easy Rack offers a wide range of heavy duty shelving that help keep your inventory organized to maximize storage space. Used storage racks can save you up to 50% of the price of new storage racks. The tangible benefits companies can count on receiving in return for their used pallet rack investment is improved time to market, reduced risk of injury and subsequent insurance costs, and reduce and possibly eliminate overtime, all of which drive overhead down and profits up.

Call us today at 713-553-1122 and let us help you find exactly the used pallet rack system that is computer designed exactly to your warehouse or storage area layout. We also have warehouse lighting fixtures and industrial lighting equipment should lighting be on your shopping list. Let the professionals at Easy Rack shed some light on the subject!

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