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Industrial warehouse racking

Cantilever racking

Cantilever racking carries long loads on arms projecting from a single column, with no front upright to work around, so timber, tube, bar, profile and panel can be loaded from the side along their whole length. Rejuva designs, supplies and installs it across Europe.

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Cantilever racking arms holding long timber and profile lengths

What cantilever racking is

Cantilever racking is built from columns carrying arms that project forward on one or both sides, with bracing behind them and nothing across the front. That open face is the whole point: a length of tube or a bundle of timber can be set down along the arms in one movement, without the front upright that conventional pallet racking would put in the way at every bay.

Arms are repositioned up and down the column, so the level pitch follows the product rather than a standard. Arm length, column height and base depth are set from the loads themselves, which is why two cantilever runs in different buildings rarely look alike.

It is used wherever goods are longer than they are wide and would overhang, sag or have to be broken down to fit a beam: timber and sheet materials, steel bar and section, plastic and PVC pipe, carpet and roll goods, and furniture components.

What cantilever racking gives you

  • An open face to load along

    Nothing across the front of the bay means a full length goes in and comes out in one movement, from a side-loader or a forklift working along the run.

  • Levels set to the product

    Arms move up and down the column, so the pitch follows the profile you actually store instead of wasting a hand of height at every level.

  • Long goods off the floor

    Material stacked loose on the floor takes far more area than the same material on arms, and is harder to count, reach and keep undamaged.

  • Load capacity where it is needed

    Arm, column and base are specified from the real loads, including whether the run is loaded from one side or both.

  • Stock you can identify

    Similar-looking lengths held in dedicated levels rather than in a stack are quicker to find and far less likely to be picked wrongly.

  • A structure that stays safe

    Designed, installed and then inspected in service like any other racking, which is what keeps a heavily loaded cantilever run within its limits.

What cantilever racking is used for

  • Pipe and tube

    Steel, copper, PVC and plastic pipe for plumbing, construction and manufacturing.

  • Timber and sheet materials

    Lengths, boards and panels for merchants, joinery shops and woodworking.

  • Steel bar, section and sheet

    Stockholders and metal processors, where weight per arm is the governing number.

  • Roll goods

    Carpet, vinyl and similar rolls, which need supporting along their length rather than at the ends.

  • Furniture components

    Legs, frames, backs and other elongated parts held by line rather than stacked.

  • Extrusions and profiles

    Aluminium and plastic profile, where a bent length is scrap and support spacing matters.

Racking is not only bought. It has to be installed to the design, inspected while it is in use, repaired when it is hit, and moved or sold when the operation changes.

Every system sits somewhere on one trade-off: selectivity, meaning you can reach any pallet at any time, against density, meaning how many pallets fit into the same floor area.

Have a project in mind?

Describe what needs to happen in the building and we will come back with a proposed approach, the specialist who would carry it out and a budget you can work with.

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