Storing furniture and treated wood requires specialist care and attention. It also needs to be capable of being stored safely and economically, while still being easy to transport when needed.
At OHRA, we are specialist in designing storage systems suitable for furniture and other wooden products. We can work with you to help ensure:
- Your storage system makes the best use of existing space and surfaces
- Picking routes are optimised for speed of transport
- Full integration into your stock and production flow
- The storage system you choose is cost effective and of the highest quality
Cantilever racks
If you need a storage system with direct access to long, heavy or bulky composite panels, such as chipboards, MDF, sawn timber packages or solid wood furniture, an OHRA cantilever racking system has to be your first choice.
We use robust hot-rolled steel profiles instead of thin sheet metal. This means our cantilever racking has high load-bearing capacities with a slim-built profile. The flexible, height-adjustable cantilever arms move upwards and sideways on impact to avoid damaging products. You benefit from a cost-effective storage solution that offers high storage capacity while taking up minimal space.
Automatic storage system
An automated storage system - available either with partial or fully automated loading and unloading - gives you the ultimate optimisation of speed, dynamics, safety, energy and cost savings. Depending on your requirements, whole packages or single panels can be taken and transported to the transfer station, using the 'goods-to-man' principle
- Highest possible handling turnover for picking orders
- Choose from manual or fully automatic control, and change at any time
- Interfaces with customer ERP software via a module
- Storage and retrieval vehicle can service several lanes using cornering technique
- Reduced investment costs and optimal price-performance ratio
Pallet racks
Our pallet racks are constructed with durability in mind, and can offer you a much higher loading capacity compared to conventional pallet racking. That's because we use hot-rolled steel profiles instead of thin sheet metal, ensuring they are efficient even when bearing heavy loads, and are safe enough to be used in the warehouse or customer-facing areas.
At the same time, pallet racking is an economical furniture storage option because of the larger bay widths. This means they require fewer components than conventional rack systems with a lower load capacity.
Mezzanine floors
Using mezzanine floors can increase your existing storage area without extensions or expensive reconstruction work, giving you the space and the flexibility you need. The self-supporting construction fits into any existing building and can be customised individually according to the available space.
All our mezzanine floors are completed by stairs with grating or wooden steps and screw-fixed bannisters (including handrail and knee rail). Each floor can be configured for different loads and other requirements, allowing you to store scenery in a space-saving and highly visible manner.
- Robust combination of rack systems and mezzanine floors
- Additional second and third levels possible: 350kg/m² standard capacity load on the walkway between racks
- Various platform surfaces available, depending on your requirements
- Broad range of accessories (lighting, ladders and stairs) available
Timber and furniture industry case studies
Gerbrich
The Czech door manufacturer Gerbrich was able to create high storage capacities in a small area for its production by using cantilever racks from OHRA. The racking system also enables efficient storage processes due to the fast handling of the goods and the good overview of the stock and thus a reliable supply to the production with the required materials such as chipboard or panelling.
van Deuveren
Increasingly, companies are using the option of individual colouring for their racks. In this way, a corporate design can also be continued inside a warehouse or different storage areas can be visually separated. OHRA, the European market leader for cantilever racking, powder-coated the racking in various RAL colours for the new headquarters of "Houthandel van Deuveren" in Dedemsvaart, the Netherlands. The colours are matched to the façade so that the racks and building form a harmonious unit that reflects the modernity and quality of the company's services.
Trend Hout
Trendhout, the Dutch specialist for exclusive garden buildings, has equipped its new logistics centre in Hattemerbroek with racking systems from OHRA. The focus of the system layout was to create as much storage capacity as possible on the available space. In just two weeks, OHRA installed a steel volume equivalent to six fully loaded trucks - resulting in a racking system with 390 meters of cantilever racking and storage space for 1,422 pallets. As a result, Trendhout has been able to significantly improve the efficiency and time required for order picking, stock levels are now organized and clear, and delivery reliability has increased.
Bati Nature
Bati-Nature, the French carpentry / timber frame construction company / specialised in the construction of straw-insulated houses, has created new capacities for the storage of both wood-based materials and prefabricated wall elements with a special racking system from OHRA. Here, two 24-metre-long rows of single-sided cantilever racks form the walls of a hall-like construction. Between them remains a space of about 6 metres width that can be travelled on, in which the timber frame walls are stored upright. The cantilever columns support a roof that protects both the outward-facing storage levels formed by the cantilever arms from the weather and the floor storage zone between the racks. OHRA needed only about one and a half weeks for the assembly of the specially adapted warehouse building.
