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Ohra instruments a warehouse with shelves cantiléver and for palés combined

ITS Rotterdam: High shelves for materials of construction and wood

Editorial Interempresas13/11/2012

The construction of a new warehouse in the Dutch company ITS Rotterdam, devoted on sale of materials of construction and wood, has made possible to gather in an alone space commodity for picking and commodity of storage. This warehouse has instrumented with systems of shelves of nueve metres of height of the company Ohra, with which has achieved space for more than 460 palés, as well as 396 metres of shelves cantiléver.

ITS Rotterdam Operates like wholesaler of materials of construction and wood and like almacenista for the sale to fans to the bricolaje and artisans. The company has an own carpentry attaches that it supplies windows, doors and freamers to measure. With this unusual combination, ITS has achieved to do a very special gap in the market. With the construction of the new warehouse in the headquarters of the company in Rotterdam pretends gather in an alone space the articles for picking and the commodity to granel for buyers wholesale, that up to now stored separately.

The necessary shelves for this commissioned to Ohra, the specialist in shelves cantiléver and for palés of Kerpen, Germany. ITS No only chose Ohra by the quality of his systems of shelves manufactured in steel normalised of full soul laminado in hot, but also because, with his modular concept, Ohra offered a solution to measure for the needs of storage of the centre of logistics of ITS.

To store of optimum form wood, baldosas and materials of construction, in alone two months Orha installed eleven rows of shelves cantiléver of 36 metres of length each one and two rows of shelves for palés. With the nueve metres of height of the shelves, the surface of available storage takes advantage of to the maximum and reduce the corridors for the carts elevadoras of four ways. The shelves for palés have a width of 2.700 millimetres in six levels, in total space for 462 palés. The shelves cantiléver allow to store baldosas and wooden trunks in nueve levels of height. The length of the arms varies between 1.100 and 1.550 millimetres. Since ITS also commercialises hard wood, some zones of the shelves are designed like shelves for heavy commodities.

The lanes guides placed in the inferior part allow the safe use of the corridors of 2.530 millimetres of width with the carts elevadoras for narrow corridors especially manufactured by Hubtex. The first three levels of the shelves serve to store the articles that need to llevar the picking according to the requests and the top offers space for commodity to granel.

With the end to optimise the process of construction, Ohra scheduled in the first place the shelves and to continuation the body of the building adjusted to the system of shelves. This required a big precision to the hour to llevar the setting of the shelves, but for the customer supposed a guarantee in advance of the optimisation of the costs of the investment.