Lacing tires seems like a space-saver, but every stack is silently costing you. The immense, uneven pressure is causing irreversible bead deformation, turning valuable inventory into scrap. Your team can't find the right SKU, and your storage density is a fraction of what it could be. It's time to stop crushing your assets and start leveraging them.
In the tire industry, floor space is at a premium. The traditional method of "lacing" or "barrel stacking"—interleaving tires to form dense, woven piles—is a common practice. While it appears efficient on the surface, this method inflicts slow, costly damage on your products. The weight of the entire stack concentrates on the bottom layers, exerting immense, multi-directional pressure directly onto the tire bead.
This pressure leads to two critical failures:
Beyond direct product loss, lacing creates operational chaos. Retrieving a specific SKU from the bottom of a pile is a time-consuming and labor-intensive nightmare, requiring staff to manually unstack and restack hundreds of tires, increasing the risk of workplace injuries. These dense rubber piles also pose a significant fire hazard, obstructing sprinkler systems and accelerating fire spread.
The fundamental problem with lacing is that the tires themselves are forced to be the storage structure. The solution is to introduce a system where the structure bears the load, not the product. This is the core principle behind the Derack tire storage rack system.
These are not conventional shelves; they are modular, free-standing steel units that create a protective exoskeleton around your tires. The weight of each subsequent level is transferred through the heavy-duty steel posts directly to the floor. The tires inside a rack, whether they are on the bottom level or five levels high, experience zero compressive load. This completely eliminates the risk of bead deformation and flat-spotting caused by improper storage.
Whether you're storing lightweight Passenger Car Radials (PCR) or heavy Truck and Bus Radials (TBR) weighing hundreds of pounds, the heavy duty stack racks ensure each tire is protected. The design holds tires securely, preventing them from shifting or rolling during handling and storage.
Adopting a proper tire pallet system is more than an insurance policy against damage; it's a direct investment in warehouse efficiency and profitability.
By going vertical, you transform your warehouse's footprint from square feet into cubic feet. Derack systems can be safely stacked 4 to 5 units high, allowing you to store thousands of additional tires in the same floor area. This approach can increase your total storage capacity by over 60%, delaying or eliminating the need for costly warehouse expansion.
Each portable stack rack becomes a standardized, mobile unit of inventory. Instead of counting individual tires in a chaotic pile, your team can count racks. This simple change dramatically speeds up cycle counts and physical audits, boosting inventory accuracy from the industry average of 85% to over 99.9%. With clear visibility and 100% accessibility to every single rack, your Warehouse Management System (WMS) data finally matches the reality on the floor.
The days of manually digging for a specific tire model are over. With a forklift, your operators can access any tire pallet at any level, at any time. This immediate selectivity reduces picking times, speeds up order fulfillment, and drastically lowers the risk of manual handling injuries. The open framework design also improves visibility and allows for better air circulation and sprinkler system penetration, creating a safer overall environment.
The rack design is adapted for the specific tire type. Racks for lighter PCR tires are optimized for quantity, often holding them upright or in a patterned layout to maximize density. Racks for heavy TBR tires feature a more robust base and stronger posts to handle the significant weight (often over 1,500 Lbs per rack) and larger dimensions.
We use a diameter-based classification system (e.g., <800mm for PCR, >800mm for TBR) to design racks with the appropriate length, width, and height. This ensures a snug fit that prevents tires from shifting while maximizing the number of units per rack, effectively eliminating wasted space.
No, they are completely portable and not bolted to the floor. This is a major advantage. You can easily reconfigure your warehouse layout to accommodate seasonal inventory fluctuations or changing operational needs. During slow periods, empty racks can be disassembled and nested together to free up valuable floor space.
Load capacities are engineered to your specific needs. Standard PCR racks typically hold between 1,100 to 2,200 Lbs (500 to 1000 kg). Heavy-duty TBR racks are commonly rated for 2,400 Lbs (1100 kg) or more to safely accommodate the weight of large commercial tires.
The posts are demountable. When the racks are empty, the posts can be removed and the bases can be nested or stacked together. This reduces their return shipping volume by up to 75-80%. A truck that can only carry a small number of fully assembled empty racks can carry hundreds of nested bases, making a returnable packaging loop economically viable.
