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SHELVING…you need it! Everyone needs it, but not everyone is aware of the multitude of excellent and – unfortunately – not so excellent choices in shelving systems accessible to consumers today! Are you shopping for the best priced, easiest to clean, and most durable shelving which can withstand repeated washing without rusting? In the paragraphs below I’ll discuss the advantages of a few shelving choices to help you become more knowledgeable and better prepared to order the type of shelving that’ll work best for your application.
We at Schaumburg Specialties sell a variety of shelving brands, but two of the most recognized and worthy brands on the market today are Eagle and Metro. Both companies offer a wide variety of shelving systems and accessories. These systems are designed to be used in Foodservice, Healthcare, Commercial and Consumer applications.
There is almost no limit to the number of uses for wire shelving. Some of the most common applications are display shelving in supermarkets, bakeries and other retail food products stores. Stationary shelving units, lockable security units, and dunnage racks for storage and inventory control. Metro’s Top-Track high density storage system can be used in kitchen pantries, walk-in refrigerators/freezers, stock rooms in hospitals and laboratories! Wall mounted cantilever shelves are great for storing all that stuff that you probably don’t need but want to hang onto just to be safe, in your office, garage, machine shop, restaurant and even your closet at home. Utility carts can be used anywhere and are excellent for stocking your display shelving, getting items from your stock room and moving heavy boxes from place to place.
Up until a few years ago Metro held patents on the wire shelving design Super Erecta Shelf which meant they had a monopoly on that product for years. After the patents ran out, shelving manufacturers of all types started producing similar wire shelving products. The result was that many wire shelving options became available in the market with a wide variety in price and quality. All those options tend to make purchasing the perfect shelving system complicated.
One thing you should definitely stay away from is the very cheap, low quality shelving sold at most home furnishing and big box retail stores. If you are using your shelving system in a commercial setting make sure that you are getting a commercial grade product. You’ll end up spending more money in the long run if you have to replace cheap shelving that fell apart on you. You’ll also run the risk of ruining the products and equipment that you store on the shelving. As with any of the equipment purchases that you make to run your business, your shelving system is an investment…make sure that it is a wise investment!
We have a customer that recently remodeled a 600 square foot space that they needed to use for storage shelving. They’re a medical services firm and they stock a lot of the supplies and equipment that this service requires. Most of these items are sterile and costly. Accurate inventory control of their products must be maintained at all times. They needed a shelving system that had great light penetration, was easy to keep clean, fully utilized the space available and had excellent workflow.
One of our sales people met with the customer to discuss ideas that they had for the space, helped them fine tune those concepts and chose the applicable shelving system that fully met our customers’ requirements. The order was placed and we received it at their location to make sure that it was complete. After the construction was finished on the new storage space, our people installed the shelving to our customers’ absolute satisfaction.
Our goal at Schaumburg Specialties is to help you design complete shelving storage systems that optimize the space available with improved workflow and productivity as well as ensuring the safety of those using the shelving.
We guarantee that you, our valued customer, will be satisfied with your investment for years to come! Please contact us so one of our trained representatives can help you plan the perfect solution for your needs.
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