Herochu Heavy-Duty Pipe Storage Rack – Engineered for the Workshop That Never Stops
When every foot of floor space has to earn its keep, the Herochu Heavy-Duty Pipe Storage Rack turns idle air into profit. Starting at $3,698, this wall-mount cantilever system is built-to-order for fabricators, plumbing suppliers, steel service centers and any operation that needs to store, see and retrieve pipe, conduit, bar stock or tubing without wrestling a maze of uprights. CE, EU and ISO 9001 certifications are cast into every beam, not merely stickered on, so when the inspector arrives the paperwork is already in your pocket.
One Rack, Infinite Footprints
Choose heights from 8 ft to 24 ft in one-inch increments to clear sprinklers, light rigs or crane hooks. Specify roll-formed steel for economy or structural I-beam for punishment loads that exceed 6,000 lb per arm. Single-sided units hug the wall; double-sided islands create pick tunnels that cut travel time by 38 % in side-loader applications. Arms are straight for drywall bundles or tapered 3° to keep black-iron pipe from staging its own escape. Whatever the profile, the tower is calculated for the cumulative arm load, not an inflated “maybe” number—so you pay for steel you need, not steel you don’t.
Density Without Claustrophobia
By removing the front column entirely, cantilever geometry frees 87 % more horizontal cube than selective pallet rack. That translates to one less aisle, one more machining cell, or 900 sq ft of reclaimed concrete in a typical 200-arm configuration. Vertical density climbs just as aggressively: arms adjust on 4-in centers so you can pocket six layers of 20 ft Schedule-40 pipe where yesterday only three layers fit. The result is a footprint reduction of up to 34 % while keeping every SKU visible from the truck aisle—no flashlight gymnastics required.
Hardware That Outlives the Lease
Indoors, a textured powder coat resists forklift kisses and acetone splashes. Outdoors, a hot-dip zinc layer adds 3 mil of sacrificial armor against salt, UV and the annual freeze-thaw penalty. Optional roof kits—galvalume or translucent polycarbonate—stop rain before it becomes rust, letting you store chrome-plated tubing pride-of-place instead of shoving it into scarce covered square footage. Every base plate is pre-slotted for ¾-in anchors and ships with torque-specified hardware, so installation crews spend their day aligning, not hunting for washers.
Mechanical Assistance, Human Speed
Our in-house design group bundles each quote with AutoCAD and Staad files within 24 hours, complete arm load charts and forklift approach diagrams. Need to integrate a narrow-aisle side loader or an overhead crane? We position safety stops, guide rails and aisle-side guards so the operator focuses on the load, not the lottery of collision math. The open-front architecture means no horizontal braces to snag slings, so one crane cycle can unload an entire truck in the time it used to take to clear the first layer.
From Lumber to Legacy
Although we call it a pipe rack, the same skeleton stores drywall, bar stock, angle iron, rebar, PVC extrusions or imported furniture kits. Arms can be spec’d with decking, dunnage pins or removable steel mesh—swap them in ten minutes when product mix shifts next quarter. That modularity protects the original capital: reconfigure, don’t replace. Many customers relocate the entire system to a second facility after eight years and still recover 70 % of the initial value on the used-equipment market.
Risk Reduction in Real Numbers
Improper floor stacking costs the average service center $42,000 annually in scraped material, OSHA fines and lost-time injuries. By elevating stock, the Herochu system eliminates the tripping triangle at floor level and cuts product-to-product impact by 61 %. Insurance underwriters recognize the change: several carriers apply a 5 % premium credit under FM 8-3 guidelines once photographic proof of installation is supplied. In effect, the rack begins paying for itself before the first load is placed.
Lead Time That Respects Your Schedule
Standard roll-formed configurations ship in 15 business days; structural I-beam orders in 25. Every pallet is laser-marked with tower ID, arm elevation and weight class so crews can build without deciphering faded crayon. A single-page QR code links to a video walkthrough filmed on an actual job site—no generic animation, no upsell pop-ups. If your superintendent prefers a live voice, our support line connects to the same engineer who signed the drawings, not a call-center script.
Price Integrity, Not Price Mystery
The entry $3,698 buys a 12 ft high, 10 ft long single-sided starter with four 48-in arms rated 2,500 lb each—freight included to any lower-48 dock. Adders are listed at net, not “call for quote”: extra arm $118, roof panel $97, seismic base plate upgrade $54. No phantom line items appear at invoice. Volume tiers begin at five bays and scale to 500+, documented in the same PDF quote so purchasing can forward approval without red-ink negotiations.
Sustainability You Can Audit
Steel is 94 % domestic melt, 62 % recycled content, and every weld is performed with inverter technology that cuts power draw by 18 %. Packaging is 100 % wood-free—steel corner posts and recyclable PET strapping—so your site avoids the landfill fees associated with creosoted crates. At end-of-life the rack is 100 % recyclable; many utilities will accept it as scrap credit toward new substation steel, closing the loop rather than burying it.
Next Step
Send us a sketch, a photo or a napkin doodle. Within one business day you will receive a stamped proposal with reaction forces, anchor layouts and a freight tariff. Saw it, spec it, store it—Herochu turns your longest headache into your most valuable vertical asset.
