Pallet racking in Port Talbot, built for coil, long steel and the steelworks supply chain.

Yes. We design floor mounted coil cradles and coil racking for stockholders and service centres handling strip mill product. We need your coil widths, outside and inside diameters, weights and how you lift them, whether by overhead crane with a C-hook, coil ram or forklift. From that we set pocket spacing and cradle length, then check the floor slab can take the point loads. Typical supply and install is 4 to 8 weeks from order, and we can run the job around crane maintenance so coil handling is not stopped.

Yes. Project stores on the Port Talbot furnace build usually need adjustable pallet racking for palletised fixings and cable drums, longspan shelving at about 200, 400 or 800kg per level for small parts, and mesh partitions for a lockable cage. We can install within days if stock components suit your layout. When the project closes we dismantle, relocate it to your next site, or buy the racking back, which keeps the cost of a two or three year stores low.

We agree a plan with your appointed person before the visit. On a continuous site we inspect aisle by aisle, closing one at a time for 30 to 60 minutes, or attend overnight when traffic is lightest. Every defect is tagged on the rack and graded red, amber or green in a written report the same week. Red items are offloaded immediately. For larger Kenfig sheds we often split the inspection over two or three visits so no shift loses access to more than a few aisles.

Flanges and mooring chain are heavy and irregular, so we normally use heavy duty pallet racking with steel decking for flanges and palletised bolting sets, and cantilever racking for chain, wire and long fabrications. Aisle widths depend on your trucks: 3.5 to 4.2m for counterbalance, 2.7 to 3.2m for reach trucks. As the Port Talbot harbour hub grows, suppliers often start with a small run and add bays, so we design for extension from the first survey.

Usually, yes. We set column spacing from the length and stiffness of your longest bar so it does not sag between arms, and arm length from your bundle widths. Single sided runs against a wall save floor in narrow Baglan units, while double sided runs suit a central bay with sideloader access on both faces. We can survey within 5 working days, measuring roof height, column grid and door positions, because loading 12 metre steel through a standard roller door is often the real constraint. Supply and install is typically 4 to 8 weeks from order.

Yes. Most Port Talbot repairs are on uprights struck by forklifts or loaders, and we replace them with matching components or approved repair kits. We are about 30 minutes away via the M4 to junction 40, so a red risk bay is offloaded and isolated first, then repaired at night, at weekends or during a planned shutdown. Amber items are scheduled within the period your inspection report sets. Many common uprights and beams are held in stock, so most repairs take one visit, two at most where a non standard part is ordered. After the work we update your inspection record so the bay is formally back in use.

It depends on how many pallets you hold per product. In our Port Talbot case study, moving the bulk lines into drive-in lanes and keeping wide aisle racking for mixed lines took the site from 1,180 to 1,870 pallet positions and recovered 27% of the floor. Drive-in works best with at least 10 to 20 pallets per product and last in, first out rotation. Lines with only one or two pallets each should stay in selective racking.