How much does pushback rack cost in Lancaster?

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 long does it take to get and install pallet rack?

Standard teardrop sizes often quick-ship, while high-density systems and non-standard sizes take longer; lead time is confirmed on the quote. Installation time depends on bay count and site readiness, and we schedule it around the approved layout and your operation.

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.

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

Pushback Rack in Lancaster, OH

Lancaster's pushback rack calls tend to come from the same kind of building: an older manufacturing shell near Memorial Drive or inside Lancaster Industrial Park where a column grid went in decades before anyone thought about racking, and where glass and ceramics plants, industrial manufacturers, wholesale suppliers and packaging operations have since outgrown the open floor they started with. The River Valley area has a lot of these shells, and the common thread is a floor that fills with staged pallets long before anyone redraws the layout on paper.

Pushback rack answers a specific version of that problem: pallets sit on nested carts angled back on inclined rails, stacked two to six deep in a lane, and a single aisle handles both loading and unloading. That matters most for a Lancaster operation holding several pallets of the same item at once, where giving every pallet position its own aisle would eat floor space the building doesn't have to give up. Lane order runs last in, first out, so it fits operations that track rotation by the lane rather than by the date stamped on an individual pallet.

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Why Lancaster Warehouses Work With Us

Lancaster sits along the US-33 southeast corridor, but the buildings on it don't share a blueprint. Shells near Memorial Drive carry a column grid and clear height from an earlier era of manufacturing, while construction closer to Ety Road was framed with different spans and ceilings in mind. A pushback layout sized for one of those buildings has to be re-measured, not copied, before it fits the other.

The glass and ceramics plants, industrial manufacturers, wholesale suppliers and packaging operations around Lancaster Industrial Park and the River Valley area generally carry medium-velocity pallet loads — enough volume per SKU to justify lane depth, but not so much that a dedicated aisle per position makes sense. That load pattern is what drives the lane count, bay width and beam elevation on a given layout, rather than a standard spec pulled off a shelf.

Working in Fairfield County means the site visit, the measurements and the layout revisions happen in person with the building in front of us, not from a set of photos emailed back and forth. That's the difference a local project actually makes: fewer assumptions get baked into the drawing before steel is ordered.

Free warehouse consultation

CAD layout with position counts

Installation by trusted installation partners

High-density pushback rack lanes loaded with pallets

Pushback pallet racking showing cart rails and load beams

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 Pushback Rack Works

Two to six pallets deep from one aisle, without giving up much reach.

Loading from the aisle

The driver sets the first pallet on the front cart. Each pallet added after that pushes the cart train deeper into the lane, so one aisle handles the whole depth.

Carts nested on rails

Steel carts with nylon or steel wheels ride inclined rails, each nesting under the one ahead of it - that nesting is what makes multi-deep storage possible from a single face.

Retrieval by gravity

Pull the front pallet and the next cart rolls forward on the incline to the pick face. No driving into the lane, no repositioning pallets by hand.

Last in, first out

Each lane runs LIFO. That suits fast-turning product and any operation managing rotation by lane rather than by individual pallet date.

What a Lancaster Pushback Rack Project Includes

A pushback rack project for a Lancaster building starts with the load: pallet dimensions and weight, how many pallets deep the operation typically runs per SKU, and the lift equipment doing the loading. Those numbers set the lane depth, cart count, frame height and beam spacing, rather than a catalog default.

Carts ride on inclined rails set inside the frame, nested two to six deep depending on the lane. Loading the front position pushes every pallet behind it back a notch; pulling the front pallet lets gravity roll the next one forward. Because both actions happen from the same aisle, the whole lane only needs access from one side, which is what lets pushback outperform selective racking on position count per square foot.

For buildings around Lancaster Industrial Park and the River Valley area, the layout gets drawn against the actual column spacing and clear height of the space, then compared side by side with a plain selective layout on the same footprint. That comparison shows the position gain and the added cost per position before any steel is ordered, so the decision isn't made on an estimate alone.

Installation crews anchor and plumb each frame, set the cart rails, and label every lane with its rated capacity once the structure is up. Work is sequenced bay by bay so the rest of the floor keeps running, and later changes — adding lanes, adjusting beam elevations, or removing sections if the operation's footprint changes — use the same layout drawing as the original install.

Two to six pallets of the same SKU stacked in one lane

Cold storage or leased space where rent per square foot is steep

Operations trimming aisle count to add positions

Beverage, packaging, and consumer goods runs

Buildings with clear height to spare but limited floor

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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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Columbus Pallet Rack

4551 Wright Ave.

Unit #2092

Columbus, OH 43213

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