With today’s out of control warehouse expenses, maximizing the use of your current facilities is essential.

In areas like Santa Barbara, some enterprises are having difficulty finding additional warehouse capacity because vacancies are virtually nonexistent.

Maximizing the use of the vertical space in a facility by installing an elevated steel platform, or mezzanine, can easily boost storage and production efficiency. These mezzanines allow you to grow your operations and storage skyward, while still using the floor below as you normally would.

For enterprises that outgrow their production, warehouse or distribution facilities, relocating can be an exceptionally expensive and inconvenient proposition. An inexpensive and minimally disruptive alternative is to use industrial mezzanines to augment the utilization of cubic space.

Warehouse mezzanines can be appropriate for all kinds of operations, from small warehouses to massive distribution centers. Very quickly, a mezzanine installation can easily improve your performance and yield a meaningful return on investment. There are many choices available, from regular prefabricated mezzanines to custom designed, multi-story steel mezzanines.

Prefab Mezzanine Systems

Mezzanine warehouse systems may be an ideal choice for leveraging greater storage density, but they can also serve as an excellent vantage point to track safety practices and warehouse productivity.

Industrial platform structures can take many forms, and typical designs serve multiple functions. Many times configurations are engineered with mezzanine office modules, allowing breakrooms, offices and conference rooms instead of just storage.

Most mezzanine configurations provide uncomplicated setup and teardown. In most instances there is no need for structural modification of the building. As your business evolves, so can your mezzanine system-they are simple to modify and reconfigure.

So that employees can access these platforms, mezzanine stairs are included. Typical storage applications also include lift truck accessible gates. In addition, some designs employ mezzanine lift systems or vertical reciprocating conveyors (VRC) to move products on and off the platform.

Industrial Mezzanine Choices

• Freestanding: these systems maximize your ground space and feature simple assembly, modification and disassembly. They also permit free traffic flow underneath the platform due to their wide span configuration. B Structural systems are well suited for component and product storage.
• Rack Supported: “catwalk” or rack supported systems are installed on pallet racks, allowing additional storage above the racks. Rack supported alternatives ordinarily use several gates for loading and unloading pallets within the racking system.
• Shelf supported: shelving supported platforms are ideal systems for expanding storage of lighter weight items above shelving structures. While shelf supported designs are very economical, they are not as versatile as freestanding or rack supported options.

New and Used Mezzanine Systems in Santa Barbara

With a presence across 8 states and 19 locations, Raymond West is one of the biggest mezzanine and racking providers on the West Coast. We provide both new and previously owned mezzanines for most types of applications. Call a material handling expert at Raymond today!

Raymond West
Service Area: Buellton, Carpinteria, Goleta, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria
(805) 749-2777