Pushback Rack in Essex, Maryland

Many Essex buildings are older industrial shells with lower clear heights. Adding a fifth beam level is often off the table, so the space has to come from the floor.

Removing aisles is the way to get it. Two single-deep rows plus the aisle between them can become one block of three- or four-deep lanes facing a single aisle.

Auto aftermarket distributors in Essex often carry batteries, fluids and boxed parts. Fluids and batteries are dense, so a pushback rack lane of those items weighs far more than a lane of filters. We assign heavy SKUs to lower levels and lighter ones above, then size each pushback pallet rack frame for the heaviest combination it will see.

Light manufacturing, marine supply and auto aftermarket inventories in Essex often split clearly: a group of components bought by the truckload and a long list of slow parts.

The truckload group belongs in deep lanes. The slow parts stay in selective rack or shelving. Pushback works last in, first out, so anything that must ship in lot order should go to a pallet flow layout in Essex.

The first load rides the uppermost cart. Each new pallet pushes the stack rearward. Pulling the front load lets the remaining pallets roll forward on the slope. Operators never drive into the structure.

Heavier industrial pallets drive frame selection quickly. A four-deep lane of steel components loads the uprights far more than four pallets of packaging, so we size frames from the heaviest load you store and the vertical spacing between beams.

Lane depth follows pallets per SKU. If raw stock arrives eight pallets at a time but you draw it down within days, four deep may be the honest number.

Existing rack can sometimes accept pushback bays. Send a picture of the upright face and beam connector and we check compatibility before quoting.

Smaller shops near Back River Neck and Rossville do not need a huge system. A short pushback rack run of two or three bays, three deep, can hold a month of raw stock in the space of one selective row.

Start with the parts that arrive by the skid and get consumed steadily. Push back racking keeps those loads off the floor and out of the walkways around machines. Every pushback pallet rack lane carries one item, labeled at the face, so the production team pulls the right load without searching.

If floor loading or anchoring questions come up, the rack is simply anchored to the floor to the manufacturer's pattern.

For a few materials stored very deep and consumed in sequence, a drive-in layout for Essex holds more per footprint, at the cost of slower handling inside lanes.

Baltimore Pallet Racks is a division of Warehouse Equipment & Supplies Co.; supplying and installing rack has been the parent company's work since 1997. Visit the Essex service area page or the pushback rack overview, then send your measurements for a free layout.

Baltimore Pallet Racks

1400 W. Lombard St.

Unit #687

Baltimore, MD 21223

Monday - Friday: 8:00 AM - 6:00 PM

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