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Company goes Cold on Storage Plans These are produced at GE Healthcare’s site in Gloucester. The highly precise manufacturing requirements included storage of both raw materials and finished products between +5 degrees and -20 degrees depending on the constituents and manufacturing techniques. The company recognised that a specialist solution would be needed to provide a storage system that would operate at these temperatures and that would also fulfil the requirements of storage and retrieval. Rackline, specialists in bespoke storage solutions was invited to develop a practical solution to the problem of accommodating full height roll cages with loads of up to 150kg. Due to the low temperature it was important to provide a system which enabled access to every roll cage without the need to move those which would be in front of the desired cage. With this criteria and the obvious need to maximise the use of the space within the Cold Stores, a mobile system was the only practical solution Another consideration for Rackline was to design moveable storage areas that could be wheeled out into other parts of the site without the operator being either endangered or put under any undue physical effort. Rackline designed a modified version of their Multitrak mobile base that would move on tracks chased into the insulated floor. These mobiles compact so the number of aisles required to access into them is greatly reduced compared to static bases. Roll cages were designed to sit on top of the mobile bases. These each had four swivel castor wheels to allow them to be pulled off the base (via a small ramp) and pushed around and out into other areas of the site. A tray-like hinged flap on the bottom bay of each aisle retains the roll cages on the bases. The roll cages constructed from 50 x 50 mm mesh were 2000mm x 800mm x 800mm with adjustable shelving and a lockable swing front door and a lidded top. All in all 158 roll cages were accommodated in three Cold Store
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