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We, at I DC, always ensure that we have discussions with both our clients and their insurance companies prior to designing and specifying pallet racking.
Your article discusses ware' houses from the conventional to the high rise automated storage -silo.High-rise racking with special-purpose narrow aisle side-loading trucks with horizontally rotating forks, are likely to predominate in new warehouse developments of substantial size in the typical UK situation.
Your comments on racking damage are equally valid in this
situation, even though the special truck will be constrained within guide. rails. As you probably know, IDC have developed a new technique for laying the essential super-flat floors for these applications which allows operating speeds to be safely increased whilst reducing the likelihood of damage to racking from mast sway. Reduced floor vibrations will also reduce truck wear and the problems associated with unstable loads.
L. R. STANTON, IDC Consultants Ltd, Stratford-upon-Avon.