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.

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.

Grove City, Ohio

Pallet Flow Rack in Grove City, OH

A lot code that cannot be traced back to a ship date is a liability for any beverage distribution operation, and the question Grove City warehouses near Southwest Industrial Park eventually face is whether the oldest pallet on the floor is actually the one leaving first or whether the crew is trusting memory. Pallet flow rack settles that by loading pallets at the back of an inclined lane and letting gravity carry them down rollers to the pick face, so rotation happens by the shape of the rack rather than by habit.

Lanes along the I-71 south / SR-665 corridor commonly run five to twenty pallets deep, concentrating a large share of stored volume behind a small number of pick faces. That density carries a higher cost per position than selective or pushback rack and requires an aisle at both ends of the lane, which is worth paying for when shelf life or lot sequencing cannot be left to chance.

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Why Grove City Warehouses Work With Us

Automotive parts and beverage distribution inventory moving through Grove City often carries a code date that has to be honored in order, and a gravity lane enforces that order mechanically instead of depending on a picker checking labels before every pull.

Clear height varies from one building to the next along Buckeye Parkway and London Groveport Road, and that figure changes both the roller pitch and the brake spacing a lane needs. We measure the ceiling and floor condition in the specific bay before any lane gets sized.

Because a flow lane needs clearance on the load side and the pick side, the final position count depends on how the row sits inside the building near Commerce Center. We lay that out against a pushback version of the same footprint so the rotation-versus-density tradeoff is visible before anything ships.

Transporting five racks of pallet flow rollers to Hilliard requires testing the centrifugal brakes after the relocation. We oversee the move from Grove City to Reynoldsburg, adjusting the lane decline so your heaviest loads index forward correctly, preventing any speed issues that could occur if the gravity tracks were roughly handled during the warehouse changeover.

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 I-71 south / SR-665 corridor, Southwest Industrial Park, Buckeye Parkway, London Groveport Road, Commerce Center.

Beverage distribution

Building products

Contract packaging

Automotive parts

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 Grove City Pallet Flow Rack Project Includes

Flow lanes get engineered around the pallet moving through them: weight, deck condition and whether the bottom boards hold up to repeated travel down the rollers. Buildings near Southwest Industrial Park that run older or mixed pallet pools usually need full-width rollers rather than a lighter skate-wheel track.

From there we set lane count and depth against how fast each SKU turns. Fewer, deeper lanes store more pallets behind one pick face; more, shallower lanes give a wider spread of SKUs their own face along Buckeye Parkway. Both versions get modeled with a position count attached so the tradeoff is on paper.

The itemized quote covers frames, beams, rail and roller assemblies, brakes, and entry and exit guides. At installation, pitch gets set, loaded travel gets tested in every lane, and brakes get tuned so pallets index forward at a controlled pace rather than drifting.

The finished system leaves your team with documented capacities, a lane map new hires can follow, and an ongoing point of contact for brake rollers and wheels as the lanes near Commerce Center rack up cycles over time.

Lane pitch, brake settings and posted capacities carry back into a single drawing, so a question about rotation or throughput on a Grove City flow lane near London Groveport Road starts from a document instead of memory.

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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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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