Trucks essential as warehouse profile changes
August 1st 2010 The Potter Group's North West
distribution centre at Knowsley,
Merseyside had been used
predominantly as a bulk paper store until
2007, when the emphasis was switched
to the storage of pharmaceutical and
chemical products, clinical nutrition
and other prescription foods.
To accommodate the change,
additional pallet racking was required.
Various storage schemes were
considered before the company
settled on a high bay very narrow aisle
racking design served by five
articulated forklift trucks supplied by
Narrow Aisle Flexi.
The top beam of the new racking
layout is 11.2 metres high and the
aisles are 2.2 metres wide. In total, the
new storage area provides 16,743
pallet locations and, because of the
fluctuating production and sales
patterns of the products stored at
Knowsley, it has been designed to
allow both slow moving and
frequently picked items to be
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