Purpose-Built Custom Pallet Racking in Ann Arbor, MI

Standard racks do not fix every headache. Custom pallet racking is built specifically for your exact floor plan and weirdly shaped products. We build a system that maximizes every inch of your Ann Arbor, MI building so you stop paying for dead air.

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  Buildings with odd structural layouts
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  Companies storing non-standard pallet sizes

Custom racking setups in Ann Arbor, MI mean custom permit headaches. The Building & Rental Services will not let you build near The Big House (Michigan Stadium) | The largest stadium in the Western Hemisphere and home to the Wolverines. without stamped engineered drawings. Call (734) 794-6263 or visit 301 E. Huron St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 to verify your exact capacity limits before you start bolting steel. Custom frame structures require dedicated seismic threshold calculations directly from the city.

Custom Pallet Racking & High-Density Systems

When standard selective racking isn't enough to maximize your throughput, WDRacks custom-engineers, designs, and installs specialized high-density systems tailored to your unique inventory profiles:

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  Double-Deep Pallet Racking: Increase storage capacity by up to 40% over standard layouts by placing selective racking two pallets deep. This setup reduces aisle space while maintaining high density, accessed seamlessly via deep-reach forklifts.
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  Drive-in & Drive-Through Systems: Engineered for high-volume, low-SKU inventories, allowing forklifts to drive directly into the steel bays to stack pallets multiple levels deep in a Last-In, First-Out (LIFO) or First-In, First-Out (FIFO) flow.
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  Carton Flow & Pallet Flow (Gravity Flow): Utilizing sloped steel lanes equipped with heavy-duty rollers, gravity-driven flow systems automatically slide inventory forward to the picking aisle. They provide flawless FIFO product rotation, making them perfect for fast-moving consumer goods, food distribution, and cold-storage operations.
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  Cantilever Racks & Mezzanines: Specialized structural steel columns designed to hold long, heavy, or non-standard materials like lumber, tubing, and sheet metal, alongside custom mezzanine platforms designed to safely double your usable warehouse square footage.

Passing Strict Seismic Code Inspections

We never cross our fingers and hope a custom design passes code. We employ licensed engineers to stamp every custom structural drawing, guaranteeing your new racks meet all local seismic and building safety requirements.

Engineered Schematics for Custom Pallet Racking

The fabrication of custom pallet racking demands a rigorous finite element analysis (FEA) to ascertain precise stress nodes and yield strengths under atypical spatial constraints. Engineering a bespoke racking matrix in a Ann Arbor operation requires customized metallurgical specifications and geometric configurations to accommodate idiosyncratic load dimensions while strictly adhering to seismic base shear calculations.

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  Execute Finite Element Analysis (FEA) for bespoke structural geometries.
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  Calculate base shear thresholds for customized upright footprints.
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  Verify yield strength tolerances for non-standard metallurgical composites.

Engineering Custom Storage Solutions

Building high-capacity custom steel near the I-94 & US-23 / University-Industrial Research Hub corridor means navigating long lead times and strict local regulations. We manage these headaches daily for operations throughout MI. Browse the FAQ below, or click the button to schedule a free conversation with our layout experts.