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.

Lancaster, Ohio

Pallet Flow Rack in Lancaster, OH

Pallet flow rack comes up in Lancaster when an operation has to prove rotation instead of just claim it. Glass and ceramics plants, industrial manufacturers, wholesale suppliers and packaging operations around Lancaster Industrial Park and the River Valley area often carry dated or lot-controlled product, and a pushback lane's last-in-first-out order doesn't satisfy that requirement the way a flow lane does.

In a flow lane, pallets load at the high end and travel down braked rollers or wheel tracks at a controlled pace, so the oldest pallet in the lane is always the one sitting at the pick face. That takes an aisle on the load side and another on the pick side, which uses more floor space per position than pushback, but it earns that space back for any Lancaster operation where a handful of pick faces have to represent a large volume of stored product behind them.

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Why Lancaster Warehouses Work With Us

The US-33 southeast corridor runs past a mix of building eras, from manufacturing shells near Memorial Drive to newer construction closer to Ety Road, and clear height and column spacing change from one to the next. A pallet flow layout gets drawn against whichever building is actually in front of us, not against a generic bay size.

Lancaster's glass and ceramics plants, industrial manufacturers, wholesale suppliers and packaging operations deal with product that has to move in date order more often than they'd like, whether that's a shelf-life requirement or a lot traceability requirement from a customer. Sizing the flow lanes to that need — rather than defaulting to the deepest lane the building can physically hold — is what keeps the system matched to how the floor actually operates.

Being based in Fairfield County means the load-side and pick-side aisle widths get checked against the real building during the design phase, not estimated from a floor plan sent over email. That in-person step is what keeps a flow lane from being drawn a foot too tight once the rollers and carts are already ordered.

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 southeast corridor, Lancaster Industrial Park, River Valley, Memorial Drive corridor, Ety Road.

Glass and ceramics

Industrial manufacturing

Wholesale supply

Packaging

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 Lancaster Pallet Flow Rack Project Includes

Work on a pallet flow rack project for a Lancaster building starts with the load profile: pallet weight and dimensions, how many SKUs need dedicated lanes, and how strict the rotation requirement actually is. Those answers set the lane pitch, incline angle and roller or wheel-track spec, instead of a one-size layout.

Pallets enter at the high end of the lane and travel down braked rollers or wheel tracks at a controlled speed, arriving at the pick face in the order they were loaded. Because loading and picking happen on opposite ends of the lane, the layout needs a clear aisle on both sides, which changes the bay spacing compared to a single-aisle system.

For buildings around Lancaster Industrial Park and the River Valley area, lane count and aisle widths get drawn against the building's own clear height and column grid, then compared to a plain selective layout at the same footprint so the added floor cost of the second aisle is visible against the rotation benefit it buys.

Installation follows the approved layout: frames are anchored and plumbed, rollers or wheel tracks are set to the correct pitch, and brakes are checked on each lane before it's loaded. Lanes are labeled with their rated capacity and pick direction, and later additions — new lanes or adjusted pitch for a different pallet size — are drawn off the same plan used for the original installation.

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.

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4551 Wright Ave.

Unit #2092

Columbus, OH 43213

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