Heavy Duty Steel Racks for Steel Plate

Reclaim Your Floor, Revolutionize Your Flow: The Herochu Heavy-Duty Roll-Out Rack System

For fabricators and manufacturers, raw sheet metal is the lifeblood of your operation. Yet, its storage and handling are often its greatest liability. If you’re battling cramped aisles, damaged material from clumsy retrieval, or the sheer time sink of hunting for a specific gauge buried in a stack, you’re not just managing inventory—you’re managing waste. Wasted space, wasted time, and wasted capital.

The Herochu Heavy-Duty Steel Rack System was engineered to eliminate this friction. This isn’t merely a shelf; it’s a dynamic, high-density storage ecosystem designed to transform your sheet metal handling from a necessary evil into a strategic advantage. Starting at $4,399 and fully customizable to your workshop’s exact footprint and load requirements, it’s the investment that pays for itself by supercharging your entire production line.

The Core Dilemma: Why Traditional Sheet Metal Storage Holds You Back

Before we delve into the solution, let’s diagnose the problem. Most workshops rely on methods that are fundamentally at odds with modern, lean manufacturing principles.

• Floor Stacking: The most common, yet most costly, approach. It consumes premium floor space, turns inventory counting into an archeological dig, and almost guarantees scratched, dented, or warped materials from frequent moving and shuffling.

• Standard Horizontal Racks: A slight improvement, but they still force operators to manually “fish” for sheets, risking injury and material damage. Capacity is often limited, and they fail to leverage the vertical cube of your facility effectively.

• Cantilever Racks: Excellent for long, awkward shapes like bar stock and tubing, but their design is ill-suited for standard sheet stock, lacking the support and accessibility needed for efficient, damage-free handling.

These conventional methods create a bottleneck right at the start of your value stream. They slow down your crews, increase the risk of workplace injury, and actively damage the very materials your profitability depends on.

The Herochu Difference: An Engineered Symphony of Steel and Accessibility

Our Roll-Out Sheet Metal Storage System is built on a simple but profound principle: store densely, access effortlessly. We achieve this through a meticulously engineered drawer-style design that brings the material to the operator, not the other way around.

1. The Roll-Out Drawer: The Heart of the System

Imagine needing a specific 5,000 lb sheet of stainless steel from the middle of a stack. In a traditional setup, this is a 30-minute ordeal involving a crane, careful maneuvering, and significant risk. With a Herochu rack, you simply unlock the drawer and, with minimal effort, the entire shelf glides out smoothly on a integrated system of high-grade steel bearings.

• Full, Unobstructed Access: The sheet is now fully exposed and separated from the stack. Your crane, vacuum lifter, or forklift can engage with it cleanly and safely, without scraping against adjacent sheets.

• Ergonomic Revolution: This eliminates the dangerous and physically taxing “tug-of-war” with heavy metal sheets. You protect your most valuable assets: your people and your material.

• Dramatic Time Savings: What was a 30-minute search and retrieval process becomes a 2-minute, precision operation.

2. Uncompromising Heavy-Duty Construction

The smooth glide of the drawers is only possible because of the immense structural integrity behind it. The Herochu rack is a fortress of welded steel framework. Each shelf is not just a platform; it’s a load-bearing engineered structure with capacities of up to 5,500 lbs per shelf as standard, with options to configure certain models for a staggering 10,000 lbs per shelf. This isn’t just “rugged use” – it’s industrial-grade endurance, built to withstand a lifetime of daily use without deflection or failure.

3. Maximize Your Vertical Cube

Floor space is your most expensive real estate. The Herochu system challenges you to think vertically. By storing sheets on their edge in a compact vertical footprint, you can achieve storage density increases of up to 400% compared to floor stacking. Our models, like the HC-B6020-66, are designed to handle massive 6000×2000 mm plates across multiple layers, turning wasted air space into highly organized, high-density storage. This can free up to 40% of your floor space for additional machinery, assembly, or safer, clearer aisles.

4. The Returnable System: A Lean, Green Supply Chain Link

Take the efficiency of our racks beyond your four walls. Our system functions as a Returnable Sheet Metal Storage System. The entire rack cartridge can be shuttled to and from your suppliers for restocking.

• Eliminate Packaging Waste: Drastically reduce the cost and environmental impact of disposable wood crates, cardboard, and plastic wrapping.

• Slash Shipping Damage: Your materials are secured and protected in transit, not rattling around in a flimsy crate. Say goodbye to damaged edges that ruin a perfect cut.

• Streamline Logistics: The rack becomes a standardized container in your supply chain, simplifying loading, unloading, and inventory management from your supplier’s floor to your own.

Configuring Your Herochu Solution: Standard and Custom

We understand that no two workshops are identical. That’s why we offer a range of standard models designed for common plate sizes, with deep customization available to meet your exact needs.

Standard Model Overview:

*Note: The “Number of Layers” often includes a +1 configuration, indicating a base layer plus additional storage tiers, maximizing vertical space.*

Your Customization Options:

• Load Capacity: Scale from standard 3-ton shelves up to our maximum 10-ton capacity for specific, heavy-use layers.

• Plate Size & Number of Layers: We will engineer a solution for your unique material dimensions, whether you need to store many small sheets or a few colossal plates.

• Double-Sided Loading: For high-throughput environments, we can configure racks for access from both sides, further optimizing workflow.

• Integration with Lift Systems: The design is perfectly complementary to vacuum lifters, hoists, magnets, and sheet lifters, creating a seamless, ergonomic material handling circuit.

A Tangible Impact on Your Bottom Line

Investing in a Herochu system is not an expense; it’s a strategic upgrade with measurable returns.

• Increased Efficiency: Reduce material retrieval time by over 80%. Your crews spend less time searching and more time producing.

• Enhanced Safety: Eliminate the primary source of handling injuries in the sheet metal staging area.

• Superior Material Protection: Virtually eliminate scrap caused by edge damage, scratches, and warping during storage and retrieval.

• Leaner Operations: Support a Just-In-Time (JIT) manufacturing model by making inventory instantly visible and accessible.

• Certified Quality: As a CE, UKCA, and ISO 9001 certified manufacturer, Herochu guarantees that every rack meets the highest international standards for safety, quality, and performance.

The Verdict: Is the Herochu System Right for You?

This system is the definitive solution for any facility where sheet metal is a core component of production. If you are investing in faster lasers and punching machines, it is imperative to ensure your material staging can keep pace. The Herochu Roll-Out Rack is the missing piece that completes your high-speed fabrication cell.

Stop letting your sheet storage be the bottleneck in your growth. Move beyond makeshift solutions and embrace an engineered system designed for the demands of modern manufacturing.

Contact us today for a no-obligation consultation. Let’s discuss your plate sizes, capacity needs, and workshop layout. We’ll help you configure the Herochu Heavy-Duty Steel Rack System that will unlock the true potential of your floor space and your team.