15/03/2012 | Safer Space from Colby.
Many businesses need extra space for day-to-day storage, handling and picking activities and yet free headspace often remains unused. Storage equipment providers will tell you that pallet racking will effectively use the overhead room creating better storage density, but as we know, not all businesses need to store more pallets.
There is another way.
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Dr Murray Clarke, Structural Design Manager, Dematic, which manufactures the ColbyRACK range of storage equipment, previews some of the key changes in a new standard covering the design of steel storage racking systems – AS4084-2012, which was released on February 29th 2012.
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Western Sydney-based Warehouse by Design has won this year’s Colby Storage Solutions Distributor of the Year Award.
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The following article by Dr Murray Clarke, BSc BE PhD MIEAust, Structural Design Manager, Dematic which manufactures the ColbyRACK range of storage equipment, comments on the performance of storage systems during seismic events, including the recent devastating earthquakes in New Zealand.
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Even the best forklift drivers have accidental collisions with racking. While worst-case scenarios involving a rack collapse are rare, impact damage weakens the racking structure, compromising its load carrying capacity and potentially putting both property and life at risk.
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Colby Drive-In Rack maximises the use of your valuable warehouse space and is a low-cost, versatile solution for high-density pallet storage.
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Hobson Engineering, one of Australia's leading distributors of industrial fasteners and hardware, has recently moved into a new purpose-built distribution centre (DC) at Eastern Creek in Sydney’s western suburbs.
