What type of pallet rack do I need?

Selective teardrop rack is the default for mixed SKUs; pushback is two to six deep, LIFO by SKU; pallet flow is for FIFO or dated stock; drive-in is for bulk storage with few SKUs. Cantilever holds long loads, and carton flow serves case picking.

What determines the price of pallet racking?

Price depends on pallet positions, height, beam capacity, decking, freight and installation. Send pallet size, heaviest load per level, clear height and building size for a free CAD layout and an itemized quote.

How much weight can pallet rack hold?

There is no single capacity: beam capacity is per pair, per level, while frame capacity depends on height and beam spacing. We size beams and frames from your heaviest pallet, and capacities go on load plaques.

Do you install pallet rack?

Yes. We handle design, supply and installation through experienced installation crews we schedule and manage. The finished rack is anchored to the floor, and load plaques identify the rated capacities.

Dublin, Ohio

Pallet Flow Rack in Dublin, OH

Lot-tracking requirements are common among the medical device and consumer products accounts operating near Shier Rings Road, and that's usually what pushes a Dublin facility toward pallet flow rack instead of a denser LIFO system. Pallets load at the high end of a gravity lane and roll, under brake control, to a pick face at the low end, so the oldest lot is always the one presented first without a staff member checking dates by hand.

Flow lanes typically run five to twenty pallets deep, so a handful of pick faces can carry most of a Dublin building's stored volume. We size lane depth and incline to pallet weight and condition for product moving through the US-33 corridor and Frantz Road, then compare that layout against pushback and selective for the same footprint so the rotation ensure is weighed against the positions it costs.

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Why Dublin Warehouses Work With Us

A contractual lot-tracking obligation or a shelf-life rule is the usual reason a Shier Rings Road operator needs pallet-level FIFO rather than lane-level rotation, which is the limit of what pushback can offer. Flow lanes make that pallet-by-pallet sequencing automatic instead of relying on a picker to read dates correctly every time.

Roller selection follows pallet condition as closely as it follows weight. Full-width rollers handle a rough pallet pool with broken bottom boards far better than skate-wheel tracks, and most lane jams on a flow system trace back to pallet condition that wasn't flagged before the roller was chosen, so we ask about that condition before specifying anything.

A flow lane needs aisle access at both ends, which uses more building depth than selective racking does in the buildings near Emerald Parkway and the Dublin Corporate Area. We model lane count and depth against your real throughput so you don't end up with lanes too shallow to justify the steel or too deep to ever fully cycle.

Free warehouse consultation

CAD layout with position counts

Installation by trusted installation partners

Pallet flow rack lanes with gravity rollers installed

Flow racking system loaded with pallets at the pick face

Operations We Rack Around Here

Nearby areas we work in regularly include the US-33 corridor, Dublin Corporate Area, Shier Rings Road, Frantz Road, Emerald Parkway.

Medical devices

Consumer products

Technology hardware

Light assembly

How Pallet Flow Rack Works

Load one side, pick the other, and let gravity enforce first in, first out.

Load end

Pallets enter at the high end of the lane. Each new pallet stages behind the one before it, so put-away is a single move made from the load-side aisle.

Gravity conveyor

Full-width rollers or skate-wheel tracks, set on a pitch calculated for the pallet weight, carry loads forward under control rather than free rolling.

Braking and separation

Brake rollers and pallet separators regulate travel and stop pallets from bunching, protecting both the product and the structure underneath it.

Pick end

Pickers work a face of first-in pallets. Pull one and the next indexes forward automatically, so the pick aisle stays organized without anyone re-facing stock.

What a Dublin Pallet Flow Rack Project Includes

We start a Dublin pallet flow project by pinning down exactly what moves through the lane: pallet weight, bottom-board condition, and how many pallets of one SKU turn over in a typical week near the Dublin Corporate Area, Shier Rings Road and Frantz Road.

From there we set lane count and depth against that throughput. Fewer, deeper lanes store more per pick face; more, shallower lanes give medical device and consumer products operators a wider SKU mix at the pick level. Both configurations get modeled with a position count so the tradeoff is visible before you buy.

The itemized quote covers frames, beams, rail and roller assemblies, brakes, and entry and exit guides. Installation crews set lane pitch, test loaded travel in every lane, and tune brakes before the system is turned over, with work scheduled around your dock hours along the US-33 corridor.

You come away with documented lane capacities and a lane map your team can hand to new hires as the lanes near the Dublin Corporate Area accumulate cycles. That same lane specification extends cleanly into an adjacent bay along Frantz Road if throughput grows later, and the position counts modeled at the outset stay the reference point for any later change.

Date-coded food, beverage, and pharmaceutical inventory

High-volume SKUs with steady, predictable turns

Cold storage where every cubic foot carries a cost

Staging finished goods coming off a production line

Operations that need FIFO documented, not just assumed

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Recent Installations

Racking projects completed for warehouses across Central Ohio.

Drive-in pallet rack system installed in a warehouse — Drive-in pallet rack

Carton flow rack bays with gravity roller beds — Carton flow rack

Tall selective pallet rack rows with wire decking — Selective pallet rack

Warehouse aisle of selective pallet rack with wire decking — Selective pallet rack with wire decking

Newly installed pallet rack rows in an empty warehouse — New warehouse rack installation

Long rows of green and orange selective pallet rack — Selective pallet rack rows

Wide view of a warehouse racking layout with wire decking — Warehouse racking layout

Multiple rows of pallet rack in a distribution warehouse — Pallet rack rows

Cantilever rack with orange arms installed against a warehouse wall — Cantilever rack

Push back pallet rack carts and rails installed in a cold storage room — Push back pallet rack

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Get a Pallet Flow Rack Quote for Your Dublin Warehouse

Send the basics and we will follow up with a layout and pricing. Prefer to talk it through? Call 614-379-4436.

Columbus Pallet Rack

4551 Wright Ave.

Unit #2092

Columbus, OH 43213

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