Red carpet treatment delivered for MCD Wales
September 1st 2008 The latest distribution centre
for the Headlam Group has
been completed in Bridgend.
Operated by MCD Wales, it has
been fitted with bespoke racking
and shelving, designed, made and
installed by LINPAC Storage
Systems.
Lee Harvey, operations manager
for MCD Wales, explains "The
storage solution has to cope with a
wide variety of product from
traditional carpets and carpet tiles
to wood laminates and 2m rolls of
vinyl flooring which have to be
stored upright.
"The 40 000ft2 warehouse has a
mix of storage solutions. The
carpet racking features bridging
bays built into the racking face to
store stillages of underlay as well
as a manual cutting station.
Meanwhile the 2m vinyl rolls of
floorcoverings are kept in vertical
storage pens at ground level in
both the carpet and VNA racking,
which is primarily designed to hold
the timber flooring, carpet tiles,
adhesives and accessories. We
have Longspan shelving in our
trade counter and Linspace shelving
in the Gradus cutting room."
The outer run of single bay VNA
racking has mesh cladding on the
narrow aisle side to enable longer
pallet loads of timber flooring to be
stored and retrieved from the wide
aisle side. For stability and safety,
the bays of VNA are tied at the top
with steel braces.
An improved design of bump rail
which is bolted to the floor in front
of the carpet racking prevents rack
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