Prevent Tire Deformation: The Stack Rack Solution

The Hidden Cost of Lacing: Why Traditional Tire Stacking Fails

In the tire industry, floor stacking—often called "lacing" or "barrel stacking"—is a familiar sight. It seems like a space-efficient method, but it harbors a critical flaw: the tires themselves become the load-bearing structure. A stack of passenger car (PCR) tires can exert thousands of pounds of pressure on the bottom layers. This constant, uneven pressure leads to two primary forms of damage:

• Bead Deformation: The tire bead, the critical edge that seals against the wheel rim, gets crushed and distorted. A deformed bead can compromise safety and is a leading cause of unsellable inventory.
• Flat-spotting: The tread area develops permanent flat spots from the prolonged pressure, affecting the tire's dynamic balance and ride quality.

Beyond product damage, this method creates an operational nightmare. Need a specific SKU from the bottom of a pile? Your team has to manually move hundreds of tires, a slow, labor-intensive process with high risk of back injuries.

The Stack Rack Solution: Shifting from Product Load to Structural Load

The fundamental problem with lacing is that the product carries the load. A portable stack rack, also known as a `tire pallet` or `post pallet`, completely reverses this logic. It's essentially a steel skeleton that encases the tires. Here’s how it works:

• Structural Integrity: The four heavy-duty steel corner posts bear 100% of the weight from the racks stacked above. The tires inside carry zero load, completely eliminating compression damage.
• Targeted Design: Racks are engineered for specific tire types. Our heavy duty stack racks for large TBR (Truck and Bus Radial) tires feature reinforced bases and stronger posts to handle the extreme weight, ensuring absolute safety even when stacked multiple levels high.

By placing the load on our engineered steel frame, you transform your tires from a fragile, load-bearing mass into a protected, unitized asset.

From Chaotic Piles to a High-Density, Flexible Warehouse

Adopting a tire storage rack system does more than just prevent damage; it revolutionizes your entire warehouse operation.

Maximize Your Cube: Store 60%+ More Tires in the Same Footprint

Instead of being limited to unstable piles on the floor, you can safely go vertical. Our pallet stillages are designed to stack 4 to 5 levels high, converting your warehouse's overhead air space into valuable storage. This immediately increases your storage density, allowing you to store significantly more inventory without expanding your facility.

Achieve 99.9% Inventory Accuracy and Selectivity

Each rack becomes a standardized, trackable unit. Instead of trying to count a chaotic wall of laced tires, your team simply counts racks. A single rack can be assigned a specific SKU, holding a fixed quantity (e.g., 16 PCR tires). This unitization makes cycle counting faster and boosts inventory accuracy from an industry average of 85% to near-perfect levels. Plus, your forklift operator can directly access any rack at any time, eliminating the need to un-stack and re-stack.

Create a "Liquid" Warehouse That Adapts to Your Needs

Unlike bolted-down, fixed racking, portable stacking pallet racks offer unmatched flexibility. During peak season, you can maximize density. During slower periods, you can nest the empty racks away and free up floor space for cross-docking, quality inspection, or other value-added activities. Your warehouse layout is no longer static; it can adapt to seasonal demand in minutes.

Slash Return Shipping Costs by 75-80% with Nesting Design

For tire distributors, the cost of returning empty shipping containers can be prohibitively expensive. Our stack racks are designed as a true returnable transport packaging solution. The four corner posts can be quickly removed, allowing the empty bases to nest tightly together. In the space that one fully assembled rack occupies, you can stack 4 to 6 nested bases. This dramatic reduction in volume slashes your reverse logistics costs and makes a closed-loop supply chain economically viable.

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