Steel Prices are Rising. How it Affects You
The price of steel used in structural buildings, framing, and warehouse storage systems can be hard to anticipate. Because steel is a global material used in many different products, the [...]
System Design Cheat Sheet – Selective Rack
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System Design Cheat Sheet – Push Back Rack
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System Design Cheat Sheet – Cantilever Rack
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Rack Design: The Importance of Flue Space
There’s a surprising amount of math and measuring involved in something seemingly so simple as pallet rack design. One thing to always remember: incorporate flue space. Flue space is the [...]
Why RMI Rack Certification Matters
All rack manufacturers are not created equal. The Rack Manufacturer’s Institute promotes the safe design and use of storage racks and wire decks through research, testing, preparation of specifications, education, [...]
Designing Selective Rack Based on Pallet Sizes
What came first; the pallet or the pallet rack? This question is rhetorical, as all of us know the pallet came first! Fun fact: racking came about in the [...]
What Does FOB Mean and How Does It Work?
We recently received a request to cover shipping terms of sale under FOB, and based on the great feedback we’ve received about shipping and freight topics we’ve covered in the [...]
New Addition to the K3 Safety & Protection Product Line
We’re happy to announce that RMH Systems is now stocking the strongest corner protector on the market. Designed in-house, the K3 Brute will protect all the vulnerable corners in a facility [...]
Advantages of Bolted Upright Pallet Racking
North American material handling professionals have pretty much always accepted that welded pallet rack uprights are superior to bolted while our colleagues in the rest of the world have been [...]
Tech Tip: In-Rack Fire Barriers
Among the many requirements involved in designing a storage solution for flammable material such as liquor, plastics, oils, or aerosols, in-rack fire barriers or baffles may be required. In the [...]
How To: Up-sell Using Our New Flue Space Pallet Stop
If you’ve had the time to go through our new price book you probably noticed that there are many new products available to you from RMH. I want to take [...]
Tech Tip: Rack Installation Safety
As you may know, OSHA penalties are increasing significantly next month. While you can read about the details here, I want to use this Tech Tip to address a potential rack [...]
Structural vs. Roll-Formed Rack: When to Sell the “Big” Stuff
While structural rack projects don’t come along every day, we thought we’d share our experience and knowledge about the pluses and minuses of it and also include information about the [...]
All Hands on (Wire) Deck!
Today we’ll be covering useful knowledge about the successful use of wire decking in pallet rack systems but because I’ll be referring to it in the main article, I want [...]
Going Beyond Selective Rack
You may remember that back in April I wrote about how to identify when to sell drive-in or drive-through rack systems. Today, I’ll explain how to spot an opportunity to [...]