Herochu Plate Scrap Rack – Purpose-Built Vertical Storage for Every Offcut You Keep
Stop walking past the same leaning tower of steel drops every morning. The Herochu Plate Scrap Rack turns the mess that costs you time into a catalogue you can browse with one hand. Built for workshops that cut, shear, punch or laser 4 mm–30 mm plate, this rack locks every leftover sheet into a vertical drawer that glides out to you, not the other way around. From 250 × 250 mm trim to 6 m drops, each piece is stored face-up, labelled, and ready for the next nest—no restacking, no edge damage, no hunting.
One-ton-per-level capacity, yet only 2.5 m wide
Engineered for density, not footprint, a single unit houses up to twenty pull-out levels in the floor space of a pallet. Light-line models carry 400 kg per drawer; heavy-line models 1 000 kg or 2 000 kg. That means a 20-drawer heavy rack stores 20 t of plate in 6 m²—four times the density of traditional A-frame or block stacking. Place it beside your plasma table and you reclaim aisle width previously lost to forklifts turning circles.
100 % extension, 0 % sheet slip
Each drawer rides on sealed bearings and precision rails tested to 30 000 cycles. Full extension places the load centre outside the frame so you can hoist sheets with a vacuum lifter or two slings without reaching into the rack. A moulded rubber anti-slip strip is let into the drawer floor; sheets stay put while you browse, yet slide freely when you tilt them for removal. No scuffed coatings, no scratched stainless—just first-class surfaces ready for the next job.
Built to your shop, not a catalogue
Herochu builds every rack after a five-point survey: maximum sheet length, average lot weight, ceiling height, crane reach and traffic flow. Need drawers 150 mm deep for thin-gauge offcuts? Done. Need 600 mm clearance for 30 mm boiler plate? Done. Want the frame powder-coated in corporate blue and fitted with RFID tags for ERP tracking? Done. Prices open at USD 2 280 for a four-level light unit; modular bays bolt together so the rack grows with your scrap value, not ahead of it.
CE machinery directive, EU structural steel code, ISO 9001:2015
Every weld is magnetic-particle inspected, every rail is load-tested to 150 % of rated capacity, and every finished rack ships with a conformity folder translated into nine languages. Whether you install in Düsseldorf, Dubai or Detroit, local inspectors sign off first time—no surprises, no re-work.
From chaos to cash in one shift
Install day is a single four-hour slot. Anchor the frame to level floor, plug pre-wired bays together, slide in the drawers and load. One operator can catalogue an entire bay during coffee break: pull a drawer, scan the heat number, enter remnant size in your nesting software. When the next contract calls for 8 mm S355, the system tells you a 2.3 m drop lives in drawer 14—no new purchase order, no waiting for delivery, no cash tied up in full sheets you only half-need.
Real numbers our customers quote
A Dutch shipyard cut plate handling time 38 % and saved €46 000 in new material purchases within six months. A Czech job-shop freed 210 m² of floor space, enough to install a second laser cutter paid for in eleven months of scrap re-use. An Italian tank manufacturer reduced forklift mileage 1 800 km per year—wear, fuel and carbon footprint down in one move.
Options that pay for themselves
• Dividers every 100 mm for mixed thickness storage
• PVC-inserted cradles for polished architectural stainless
• Integrated weigh cells—know the kilos you own before you quote the next job
• Manual or electric drive extension for drawers above 2 000 kg
• Folding side table for layout marking without extra benches
• Lockable security cage for high-value copper or titanium drops
Ordering made simple
Send us a spreadsheet of your current drops: length, width, thickness, quantity. Within 24 hours you receive a layout drawing, load plan and fixed price ex-works. Standard bays ship in three weeks; custom paint or special rail pitch in five. Freight is packaged in export steel frames so the rack arrives straight off the truck and into production.
Warranty you never need to use
Ten years on the frame, five years on rails, lifetime phone support. Should a drawer ever drift out of alignment, a single hex key resets the cam followers in under five minutes—no service call, no downtime.
The Herochu Plate Scrap Rack is not another shelving system; it is a profit centre disguised as storage. Put every offcut to work, protect every surface, and give your estimators instant visibility into the inventory you already paid for. Fill in the inquiry form, lock your delivery slot, and start Monday with a shop floor that looks—and performs—like the precision workshop you meant to run all along.
