Industrial warehouse racking
Clad-rack warehouse
In a clad-rack warehouse the racking is the building: the frames carry the roof and the wall cladding, so there is no separate steel structure around the storage. It is the normal route to a high-bay facility, and Rejuva delivers it with the design, the installation and the trades around it under one point of contact.
What a clad-rack warehouse is
A conventional warehouse is a steel building with racking stood up inside it, which means paying for two structures that each carry their own loads. A clad-rack warehouse merges them: the racking frames are designed to take the roof, the wall cladding, the wind and the snow as well as the pallets, and the envelope is fixed straight to them.
Removing the second structure is what lets these buildings go high, well past what a conventional shed and a counterbalance truck can work, and it takes both cost and construction time out of a project of that size. It also fixes the layout early, because the racking grid is now the building grid and changing it later is a structural question rather than a storage one.
How the store is worked is a separate decision. A clad-rack building can be served by trucks or by cranes and shuttles under software control. Automation and clad-rack construction often arrive together, because both suit very tall stores, but neither one requires the other. The automation side is covered on the automated storage and retrieval page.
What a clad-rack warehouse gives you
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Height a conventional shed cannot reach
Without a separate frame around it, the store can be built far taller, which is where a high-bay facility gets its capacity from.
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One structure instead of two
The racking carries the envelope, so the building is not paying twice for steel that does the same structural job.
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Capacity on a small footprint
Going up rather than out is what makes this the answer on constrained sites and where land is the expensive part of the project.
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A design against the real loads
Pallet weights, wind, snow and seismic requirements are engineered into the same frames, to the standards the country of the site applies.
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Built for how it will be worked
Aisle geometry follows the handling decision, whether that is guided trucks or cranes, and it is set at design stage because it is now structural.
Where clad-rack construction is used
It suits operations whose volume justifies a purpose-built store rather than fitting racking into a shed that already exists.
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Manufacturing plants
A high-bay store beside production, holding raw material and finished goods, often built as part of the plant itself.
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Distribution centres
Large, repetitive pallet volumes where capacity per square metre of land is the number that governs the business case.
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Cold storage
Where the cost of keeping the volume cold makes a tall, compact envelope worth far more than it does in an ambient building.
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Constrained sites
Operations that have run out of land rather than out of demand, and need the capacity to come from height.
Racking services, from first survey to buy-back
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.
Racking systems we design and install
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.