Protecting High Purity Stainless Steel Tubes with Telescopic Cantilever Rack

In precision manufacturing, the integrity of a surface finish is as critical as the alloy’s chemistry. For facilities handling high-purity stainless steel tubes, sanitary valves, and polished profiles, the transition from warehouse to production line is often the point of highest risk. Our Teleskop-Kragarmregal transforms this workflow from a hazardous logistics task into a streamlined production-feeding process, enabling direct overhead crane access to every single bundle.

Eliminating Surface Degradation in Sanitary Tube Handling

For manufacturers of hygienic components, a single scratch on a 316L high-purity tube can result in a rejected batch. Conventional fixed racking forces forklift operators to “tilt and slide” forks into tight gaps, or worse, shuffle top-heavy bundles to reach the material at the bottom. This mechanical friction is the primary cause of surface contamination and physical marring.

The Teleskop-Kragarmregal eliminates this friction. By allowing the storage arms to roll out 100% from the frame, the material is presented in open space. An overhead crane can perform a vertical lift with soft-slings, ensuring zero contact with the rack structure or adjacent bundles. This shift from horizontal forklift retrieval to vertical crane lifting preserves the mill-finish quality required for bio-pharma and food-grade applications.

Converting Storage Space into an Active Feed Magazine

Most steel service centers view the rack as a “closet”—a place to put things away. However, when high-capacity storage is placed directly next to a laser tube cutter or a CNC saw, it becomes a magazine. The “roll-out” feature means the machine operator doesn’t need to wait for a forklift driver to navigate through the facility.

The immediate change is the removal of the “wait-state.” When the next job requires a specific profile, the drawer is extended, the crane drops the bundle at the machine bed, and the drawer is retracted. This removes the 15-to-20-minute cycle of moving “obstruction bundles” typical of floor stacking or deep fixed-racking. In a high-output precision shop, this optimization can return over 10 hours of machine uptime per month.

Vertical Density and Safety Without Aisle Waste

Floor stacking long materials is a space-intensive practice that creates significant pedestrian hazards. A forklift carrying a 6-meter bundle needs a massive turning radius, effectively turning 60% of your floor into “dead space” for transit. By utilizing the vertical height of your facility with a Teleskop-Kragarmregal, you reclaim that floor space for additional machinery or secondary processing.

The safety improvement is direct: by moving material via overhead crane, you remove heavy forklift traffic from the operator’s workspace. This “Crane-Accessible” philosophy ensures that heavy loads are moved in a controlled, predictable vertical path, drastically reducing the chance of collisions or bundle collapses associated with unstable floor stacks.