Industrial warehouse racking
Very narrow aisle racking
Very narrow aisle racking is conventional pallet racking with the aisles cut back to the width a guided truck needs, which converts floor that used to be aisle into pallet positions inside the same four walls. Rejuva surveys, designs and installs it across Europe, including the floor and guidance work it depends on.
What very narrow aisle racking is
A wide-aisle warehouse spends a large share of its floor on the space a counterbalance truck needs to turn with a pallet. VNA takes that space back. The truck no longer turns in the aisle: it is guided by rail or by wire, travels the aisle straight and handles the load sideways, so the aisle only has to be a little wider than the pallet itself.
Every pallet is still directly accessible, which is what separates VNA from the dense systems. Nothing is stored behind anything else, and the density comes from the aisles and the extra height rather than from giving up selectivity. That combination, full access and high density, is why VNA is usually the first thing considered when a building is full but the operation still needs to reach everything.
The trade is that the system is exacting. VNA trucks are specialised and are specified with the racking, not after it, and the aisle geometry follows the truck. The floor matters more than in any other layout, because flatness governs how high a mast can safely work, and installation tolerances are tight since a guided truck has no room to correct for a frame that is out of line.
What VNA racking gives you
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Aisle floor turned into pallets
The single biggest gain available in a building that is already full, and it needs no extension, no new site and no move.
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Every pallet still reachable
Density without the last in, first out compromise, so a wide range of lines can be held and picked in any order.
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Height genuinely used
VNA trucks lift far higher than a counterbalance, so the levels the roof allows can actually be worked.
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Steady, guided travel
Rail or wire guidance keeps the truck straight down the aisle, which is quicker than steering it and takes contact damage out of the run.
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Capacity instead of construction
Recovering positions inside the existing envelope is usually a fraction of the cost of the extension it replaces.
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Designed as one system
Racking, truck, floor and guidance are specified together, because a change to any one of them changes the other three.
The floor and the guidance are part of the system
A VNA aisle is defined by guide rails at floor level or by a wire buried in the slab, and the truck follows it rather than being steered down the middle. That is what allows the clearance either side to be measured in centimetres instead of in room to correct.
It also means the floor is no longer just something the racking stands on. Flatness governs how high a mast can safely be worked, so the slab is surveyed before the layout is fixed, and grinding or remediation is planned in rather than discovered halfway through the installation.
Where VNA racking is used
The pattern is a wide range of lines, all of which have to be reachable, in a building that has run out of floor rather than out of demand.
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E-commerce fulfilment
Many lines in small quantities, where every one has to be reachable to fill an order.
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Automotive parts
Extensive spares ranges held against a service commitment rather than a forecast.
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Pharmaceutical storage
Controlled, well-ordered stock with rotation and traceability requirements that rule out dense systems.
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Cold storage
Where expensive cooled volume makes the recovered aisle floor worth more than it is in an ambient building.
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Retail distribution
Broad ranges replenished quickly, in buildings that were sized for a smaller business.
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Electronics and technology
High-value, easily damaged goods held in a large number of separate lines.
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.