Heavy metal distribution
A large metal distribution center or pipe wholesaler receives long steel products by truckload, and the standard answer is the floor: bars, tubes, H-beams and profiles stacked where they land, labels buried, forklift aisles compressed by the inventory itself. The facility manager has no shortage of space, the floor eats the aisles and the pick faces. A heavy telescopic cantilever rack brings that tonnage up on Q235 carbon steel uprights with perforated arms you rearrange by diameter, without fabrication, so every pipe size gets its own loaded level and the forklift aisle returns to the forklift.
| Product | Heavy telescopic / cantilever rack (Terack) |
|---|---|
| Load per arm | Up to 1500 kg, scalable to extreme tonnage per bay |
| Arm adjustment | Perforated arms rearranged by diameter, no fabrication |
| Reach | 100% fully extendable arms to a crane point |
| Aisle recovery | Floor inventory up; forklift aisle reclaimed |
| Constructie | Q235 carbon steel uprights, roller-guided arms |
The floor looks full, but the aisles are the real loss
For a storage director or facility manager in a large metal distribution center, long products arrive and are thrown on the floor because there is no better plan that day. Round tube, square tube, H-beam and bar stack where the truck stops, the labels disappear under the load and the forklift aisle narrows to what remains. The problem is rarely the total square footage, it is that floor stacking eats the valuable aisle and pick faces, and pick rates drop exactly as inventory rises. The distribution center pays rent for floor it cannot use and loses throughput it cannot see.
Fixed racks force you to compromise on the load
A static cantilever rack or a floor plate locks the arm height, so every new pipe diameter must fit into a level built for something else: large pipes waste a small layer, small pipes rattle on a large one. Changing the layout means cutting and welding, a long lead time for customization, and a supplier whose technique you must blindly trust. When a distributor selects suppliers, he is essentially weighing whether a supplier can deliver an adjustable, tonnage-calculated structure that fits his pipe matrix, rather than a one-size-fits-all frame he then has to live with. Fixed geometry is the hidden cost in every cheap quote.
Adjustable arms and calculated tonnage are the specification that wins
Terack heavy telescopic cantilever racks answer that specification directly. The uprights are Q235 carbon steel and the arms are perforated, so every diameter, round, square, heavy H-section, gets its own level, rearranged without fabrication and without downtime. Each arm is loaded to 1500 kg and the tonnage per bay is scaled and documented by structural calculation, not estimated. For a facility manager comparing supplier strength, this is the proof: a configurable heavy system designed for your SKU matrix and your extreme tonnage, with a documented safe working load per bay, no standard frame hoping your inventory fits.
The result is reclaimed floor and visible tonnage
Structurally, the roller-guided arms extend 100% to the overhead crane point, so one operator extends a load without ever entering the aisle, and every long product that was on the floor is now on its own loaded, labeled level. The aisle and pick face that the inventory had swallowed return to the forklift and the picker. The distribution center shifts from material-finds-people to people-picking-at-a-fixed-point: inventory is visible, pick rates recover, the aisle is safe and compliant, and throughput per square meter increases. What the storage director receives is a heavy, adjustable rack system whose tonnage per bay is traceable and whose layout grows with the pipe matrix.
- Heavy long products stored per diameter on loaded, fabrication-free adjustable arm levels
- Floor inventory up to reclaim forklift aisle and pick face
Receive the Terack heavy cantilever specification sheet
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