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If your team is still using forklifts to “fish” 20-foot steel bundles out of static pigeonhole racks, you aren’t just wasting time—you are actively capping your production capacity. De Draagarmstelling fundamentally changes how you handle long, heavy materials. By enabling 100% drawer extension, one operator can access any bundle, at any height, in minutes using an overhead crane. No forklifts in narrow aisles. No dangerous dragging. Just safe, vertical lifting. Praten met experts

The Hidden Cost of “Air Rights”: Stop Storing Air, Start Storing Steel

Walk onto your factory floor and look up. What do you see above your current static racks? Likely, it’s empty space. Traditional forklift-serviced racks are limited by the forklift’s reach and the massive aisle widths required for a 90-degree turn with a 20-foot load. You are paying for square footage that you can’t use.

Een telescoopgiek changes the math of your floor plan. Because the arms roll out into the aisle for vertical picking, you can reduce your aisle width to nearly the width of the load itself. We routinely see facilities condense their storage footprint by 50%. That isn’t just “neat” organization; it’s newly discovered real estate you can use for another laser cutter or assembly station.

Eliminating the “Forklift Bottleneck” in High-Purity Manufacturing

In industries handling sensitive materials like polished stainless steel or aerospace alloys, the forklift is often enemy number one. It’s a blunt instrument trying to do delicate work. Every time a driver has to shimmy a bundle of safe storage of heavy pipes and tubes out of a slot, you risk gouges, scratches, and compromised surface integrity.

By switching to an overhead crane accessible racking system, you remove the friction. The crane drops straight down, picks the load up, and moves it to the saw. There is no sliding, no contact with other bundles, and zero chance of the forks slipping. For a Steel Service Center, this means your rejection rate due to handling damage drops to near zero.

The Human Factor: Why Operators Prefer the Crank-Out System

Let’s be honest about the labor market. Finding skilled material handlers is hard. Keeping them is harder, especially if their job involves back-breaking work or high-risk maneuvers. Asking an employee to manually guide a suspended load into a deep shelf is a recipe for injury.

De Uitrolbare draagarmstelling empowers your workforce. The crank mechanism is geared so that a fully loaded drawer—holding tons of steel—can be extended with minimal physical effort. It puts the operator in control and, crucially, keeps them at a safe distance from the heavy loads during the lift. When you invest in ergonomics, you aren’t just being “nice”; you are reducing insurance liabilities and building a workplace where people want to stay.

Inventory Visibility is Operational Velocity

You cannot produce what you cannot find. In dense static racks, inventory gets buried. The “first in, first out” principle is ignored because it’s too much hassle to dig out the older stock at the back. Dead inventory accumulates, tying up cash flow.

With a telescopic system, everything is visible. You can see every bundle on every level. Doing a stock check doesn’t require a forklift and a spotter; it requires walking down the aisle. This immediate visual access supports Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing, ensuring your expensive CNC machines never sit idle waiting for raw material.

Veelgestelde vragen

1. How much force is required to crank out a fully loaded arm?
Surprisingly little. Thanks to the high-quality bearings and geared crank mechanism, an operator can extend a drawer loaded with 5 tons of material with just about 15-20kg of handle force. It is designed for one-person operation.

2. Can I install this rack outdoors?
Yes, but specification matters. While standard units are powder-coated for indoor use, we can manufacture hot-dip galvanized versions for outdoor storage yards to resist corrosion from weather exposure.

3. What is the maximum length of material we can store?
There is virtually no limit. The system is modular. By adding more columns and spacing them appropriately, we can configure racks to store 20-foot, 40-foot, or even 60-foot extrusions and profiles securely.

4. Does the rack need to be bolted to the floor?
Absolutely. Given the high center of gravity when loaded and the dynamic forces involved when extending drawers, the rack must be anchored to a reinforced concrete slab using heavy-duty chemical or expansion anchors for safety.

5. Can we retrofit our existing static cantilever racks to be telescopic?
No. The engineering physics are different. A telescopic rack handles significant torque and moment loads when the arms are extended that a static rack column isn’t designed to withstand. It requires a purpose-built structure.