Floating floor accounted for
October 1st 2005

Link 51 has installed 4000 pallet positions of its XL racking at the Donald Murray Paper distribution centre in Avonmouth, with a design that meets specific floor loading requirements.

The narrow aisle facility can accommodate pallets at seven beam levels, with an average capacity per pallet of 75kg, providing 1138 pick faces across six aisles.

The project called for Link 51 to develop a solution that allowed precise floor loadings to be accommodated as Link 51 sales director Keith Evans explains: "The design had to take account of the ‘floating’ warehouse floor, the ground upon which it is located and the vertical loading on the uprights because of the weights of material stored," he says. "This was addressed via a combination of extra long load spacers and spreader plates underneath the uprights. Thus the full benefit of the floor space can now be realised to maximise storage capacity alongside a delivery and despatch area."

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