Heavy duty custom stack rack for foundry die storage

Stop crushing your bottom layers of Soft Wheat Flour.

Eliminate the "Honeycombing" effect in your warehouse and say goodbye to wood pallet contamination in your feed mill.

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The Invisible Cost of "Pancaking" in Flour and Feed Logistics

For operations managers at companies like GMC or other major millers in the Philippines, the storage of bagged goods—whether it's 25kg bags of Hard Wheat Flour, Chick Booster, or Layer Mash—presents a unique physical challenge that standard pallet racking often fails to address efficiently.

The traditional method of "block stacking" (stacking pallets directly on top of one another) creates two critical problems for the food industry:

1. Compression Damage (The Pancake Effect): When you stack palletized feed or flour more than two levels high, the bottom bags bear the crushing weight of everything above. This leads to hardened, caked product (especially in humid climates) or burst sacks, resulting in direct yield loss.
2. Inventory Inaccessibility (LIFO Nightmare): To reach a specific batch of Siopao Flour buried in a block stack, your forklift drivers have to move arguably tons of product. This double-handling increases the risk of bag tears and makes strict FIFO (First-In, First-Out) management nearly impossible without massive floor space.

The steel base absorbs the load, protecting sensitive bagged goods from compression.

Why Steel "Skeletons" Are Replacing Wood Pallets

The solution gaining traction in high-volume food production is the stack rack (also known as a post pallet). Unlike a wooden pallet which is merely a platform, a stack rack is a self-supporting structure.

1. Converting "Bag Load" to "Structural Load"

When you use a metal post pallet, the weight of the upper tiers is transferred through the four steel posts down to the floor, completely bypassing the goods stored below. You can stack Duck Laying Pellets or sensitive Bakery Ingredients 4 to 5 levels high (up to 25 feet) without a single kilogram of pressure touching the bottom bags.

2. Hygiene and Humidity Control

In the food industry, wood is a liability. It absorbs moisture, breeds bacteria, and splinters can contaminate the mix. A hot-dip galvanized pallet stillage is impervious to moisture. The open design allows airflow around the sacks, crucial for preventing mold growth in humid warehouse environments typical of Southeast Asia.

Maximizing vertical cubic space without crushing the product.

3. The "Movable Warehouse" Concept

Feed and flour demand fluctuates. One month you need more space for raw Soft Wheat, the next for finished Hog Starter Feeds. Unlike bolt-down racking which permanently freezes your floor plan, portable stack racks can be moved instantly. If an area needs to be cleared for a new bagging line or deep cleaning, a forklift can relocate the entire storage block in minutes.

Reverse Logistics: Solving the Empty Space Problem

For millers who distribute to large commercial bakeries or farms, the return trip is often a waste of money. Rigid cages or wooden pallets take up the same amount of space empty as they do full.

Our heavy-duty racks feature a demountable design. The posts can be removed, allowing the bases to nest perfectly. This means a truck that delivers 20 full racks of Bakers Dried Yeast can return carrying 100+ empty racks, drastically cutting your transport costs.

Empty racks nest tightly, reclaiming 80% of storage space for return shipping.

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