Pipe Cantilever Storage System

Herochu Pipe Cantilever Storage System – Certified Steel Structure That Ends the Hidden Hazards of Stacked Tube Bundles

Walk the floor of any fabrication shop, oil-and-gas lay-down yard or civil construction site and you will see the same scene: pyramid stacks of steel pipe, PVC conduit and aluminium tubing leaned against breeze-block walls or chocked on splintered timber. To the untrained eye it looks “good enough”; to the safety officer who signs the incident report it is a potential energy bomb built from 12 m long, 300 kg projectiles. Herochu’s Pipe Cantilever Storage System replaces that daily gamble with a CE, EU and ISO 9001 certified structure engineered for predictable, measurable stability.

Stop managing risk—design it out

Disorganised pipe stacks fail four fundamental checks of modern safety management:

1. Load path unknown – nobody can state the bearing capacity of a timber dunnage tower or the lateral force a forklift bumper applies at 4 km/h.
2. Access by disturbance – the middle bundle is always needed first, so operators lever, drag and tilt until something slips.
3. No positive restraint – half-moon chocks rock; nylon straps weather; the bottom row creeps outward under cyclic vibration.
4. Inspection impossible – corrosion, ovality or hairline cracks hide behind the next layer, defeating preventive maintenance.

Herochu cantilever racks convert these variables into constants. Each horizontal arm is a simply-supported beam with a published section modulus; each column is a built-up IPE profile anchored with M24 chemical studs tested to 45 kN shear. When your structural engineer asks for load paths, you hand over a signed calculation pack—no assumptions, no disclaimers.

One-sided or double-sided, indoor or outside, 2 m or 12 m bays

The system begins with a cold-rolled 6 mm arm plate laser-cut to your exact sweep dimension. Choose 600 mm, 800 mm, 1 000 mm, 1 200 mm or 1 500 mm projection; capacity climbs from 800 kg to 4 000 kg per arm depending on steel grade and taper profile. Arms bolt to slotted uprights on 100 mm pitch, so if next year’s work-flow switches from 4” Schedule-40 to 16” casing, you relocate the levels in under an hour without a cutting torch or re-weld inspection.

Outdoor storage near the quayside? Galvanise to EN ISO 1461 after fabrication and receive a 50 µm zinc layer inside the slots and outside the plate edges—no un-coated pinch points for rust to bloom. Inside a climate-controlled warehouse? Powder-coat RAL 5017 traffic blue for high visibility, or request food-grade RAL 9003 white for pharmaceutical tube stock.

Forklift-friendly, crane-ready, robot-compatible

Traditional “A-frame” pipe stillages force a 6 m counter-balance truck to enter the lane backwards; the rear swing arc is a frequent struck-by statistic. Herochu cantilever arms present the load face-on. A telescopic handler drives straight in, lifts the bundle clear, and retreats without slewing pipe across the aisle. Prefer overhead handling? Weld-on crane lugs rated 5 t are supplied loose; fit them only on the arms you designate so the remaining bays stay flush for forklift work. Planning an automated vacuum lifter or six-axis robot? We pre-drill a 50 mm conduit hole through the column base so you can run sensor cables under the floor and keep the workspace trip-free.

Fire-code and insurance value

Under NFPA 13 and EN 12845, the distance between the top of stored commodities and the sprinkler deflector is fixed. Random pipe piles break that plane; a certified rack gives you a declared height that fire consultants can drop straight into hydraulic calculations. Many underwriters now apply a premium credit when storage is mechanically secured and documented—expect a 5–10 % reduction in public-liability cost that repays the rack purchase within three policy years.

Installation without production shutdown

Herochu ships racks pre-assembled in 2 400 mm high modules. A three-bay, double-sided run (6 m long × 3 m high) installs in one shift using two technicians and a scissor lift. No on-site welding means no hot-work permit, no fire watch, no shutdown of adjoining CNC lines. Once the first modules are anchored you can load material immediately; additional bays bolt on like Meccano during the next weekend window.

Real-world ROI snapshot

A Scottish OCTG processor replaced 320 m² of floor stacking with 96 m² of Herochu cantilever racks. The freed 224 m² now houses a new CNC threading line that added USD 1.2 M annual revenue. Pay-back on the rack investment: 4.7 months.

Specification at a glance

• Upright: IPE 270 hot-rolled S355, 3 mm web, 5 mm flange
• Arm options: 600–1 500 mm projection, 800 kg–4 000 kg UDL per arm
• Column height: 2 000–12 000 mm in 500 mm increments
• Finish: shot-blast SA 2.5, zinc primer 60 µm, topcoat 80 µm or hot-dip galvanised
• Anchor: M24 chem-set studs, 120 mm embedment, 45 kN shear tested
• Standards: designed to EN 1993-1-1, CE marked, issued with Declaration of Performance and ISO 9001 mill test reports

Procurement roadmap

1. Sketch your longest pipe, average bundle weight and building grid.
2. Email the drawing; receive a 3D STEP model and static report within 24 h.
3. Approve layout; we issue a fixed-price PO including transport and duty.
4. Delivery in 4–5 weeks; installation optional anywhere on the planet.
5. Load, inspect, insure—and forget the stack ever existed.

Stop walking past the hazard. Replace the physics of a pile with the mathematics of a Herochu Pipe Cantilever Storage System and turn “good enough” into certified, calculable safety.