Warehouse racking: Cantilever Racking
Intelligent use of your vertical storage space
Cantilever racking is a cost-effective, flexible and safe solution for storing long, heavy, irregular shaped or sheet products
Space Productiv cantilever racking systems adhere to rigorous SEMA standards and every system is designed for our client’s individual requirements, ensuring their solution maximises productivity for their space.
Our experts can conduct a detailed site survey to ensure you are making the most of your space and our SIPP certified installers deliver a seamless installation, project managed by our in-house specialists.
Space Productiv has over 30 years of expertise in designing, manufacturing, and installing cantilever racking systems and excel at delivering cost savings and enhanced productivity for our clients.
Space Productiv Cantilever Racking Systems
Cantilever racking allows you to expand your current warehouse capacity by making the best use of your vertical space. Cantilever is a cost-effective, flexible and safe solution for storing long, heavy, irregular shaped or sheet products. Designed with an open-front profile, it maximises your warehouse’s storage capacity and provides accessibility for storing varying length items.
Cantilever racking is modular in design which means we can design a system bespoke for your needs and which can be easily adjusted or extended in the future to suit the ever changing needs of your business storage requirements.
Our cantilever racking is a heavy duty system made in the UK from hot rolled steel sections. We guarantee our products for 5 years. A full planning and installation service is offered as standard.
What is Cantilever Racking
Cantilever racking is a type of warehouse racking that comprises a series of uprights known as columns, supporting horizontal load supporting arms and tied together with a bracing system located between the uprights so as not to impede access into the load space.
Two of these uprights / columns can form a single rack or starter bay to which single uprights can be added indefinitely to increase the rack length maximizing the space available and providing uninterrupted linear storage along the length of the rack.
Our cantilever racking system can be configured as a single sided rack, alternatively arms can be fitted to both sides doubling the storage capacity of the rack, at a fraction of the cost of a second rack as both set of arms utilize the same column.
Where Are Cantilever Racks Used?
Cantilever racks offer a flexible storage system commonly used for the storage of long items such as timber packs, steel pipes and tubes, timber trusses, beams, a range of sheet material and even scrap vehicles but also for variable length pallets. When standard adjustable pallet racking is unsuitable due to size, shape, length or weight of stored items, cantilever racking can be used, in conjunction with a range of ancillaries and options to create a bespoke storage solution perfectly adapted to almost any storage requirement.
Cantilever racking is often used for the storage of:
- Timber packs
- Steel pipes, bars and tubes
- Sheet materials
- Scrap vehicles
- Worktops and laminates
- Engineering components and materials
- Extrusion
- Concrete lintels
- Pallets & Stillages
Expert Cantilever Racking System Design
Space Productiv are the only SEMA approved manufacturer of hot rolled cantilever racking in the UK, meeting SEMA code of practice, BS 5950 Structural Use of Steel in Buildings and BS 5135 Weldable Steels. Our products have been independently tested and are designed to give a 1.6 times safety factor to mitigate the considerable forces that cantilever can be subject to in an industrial workplace.
Our CE Marked and ISO 9001 certified manufacturing facility is backed by over 30 years of experience and expertise we are committed not only to the highest standards of manufacturing quality, but also to ensuring that your cantilever racking solution is perfectly tailored to your business needs.
We offer a free site survey and design consultation where we assess your products and warehouse management processes alongside the available equipment and space in order to recommend a solution that is not only robustly safe and HSE compliant but also maximises productivity.
Our qualified inhouse structural engineers assess the length of cantilever arms as it relates to your stored items for the potential for tip loading to ensure that there is no possibility of buckling. We calculate the load bearing requirements of the cantilever system and make recommendations about height, strength and spacing. Our specialists will also determine the correct height for your cantilever racking as it relates to fire suppression sprinkler heads, forklift reach and local building codes.
Advantages of Cantilever Racking
Advantages:
- Variable load capacity designed to customer’s individual customer requirements
- Arms lengths 0.5 – 2.5 metres as standard
- Fully adjustable arm locations
- Arm fixing positions are located below the arm level, designed specifically to ensure there is no interference into the load space, meaning no risk of damage to product.
- Bolted Arm or Quickloc option available.
- Up to 10 metres in height, as standard
- Single or double-sided racking
- Columns punched to both sides to allow future conversions
- Infinite rack lengths
If your materials are larger than can be contained on a pallet, for example long beams or sheet materials, or you wish to maximise high ceiling space, a cantilever racking solution may be the perfect solutioin for your needs.
Talk to one of our expert team today for advice on the best solution for your space.
RIDGEONS FOREST PRODUCTS CASE STUDY - CANOPIED CANTILEVER RACKING
The project provided a 41% increase in covered storage area on site and increased the overall storage capacity by 24%. This meant that Ridgeons was able to consolidate operations from two sites into a single site, saving them over half a million pounds per year and allowing them to eliminate duplication of stock holding and to streamline their supply chain management for further productivity savings.
Cantilever Canopies & Roofing
Cantilever Canopies are perfect for adding protection to outside storage spaces and protecting valuable stock from the elements.
Cantilever Ancillaries
We have a wide range of Cantilever Ancillaries such as guided rail systems, end stops and retaining pins and a wide range of decking options.
Quick-Loc System
Our unique Quick-Loc system reduces damages from equipment impact by allowing for increased deflection without compromising stability or strength.
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