Drive-in pallet racking, a dense goods advanced-last-out storage solution

The structure of the drive-in racking is a continuous, entire building-type racking. It eliminates the unnecessary passageways between each row of shelves. Forklifts directly enter the storage aisles to retrieve goods. This design makes the storage positions very dense and the storage capacity very large. It is one of the traditional dense-type warehouse shelving. Like many heavy-duty shelving, the drive-in racking is also a type of racking using pallets, so it is also called drive-in pallet racking.

Because the goods are retrieved by forklifts entering the storage aisles, each aisle is generally designed with 3 to 7 pallet positions, and it is usually in an advanced-to-late-out design form to enhance the stability of the entire shelving system and the efficiency of retrieving goods. When storing goods, the forklift enters the internal passage of the shelving, starting from the deepest part and placing the pallets from the inside out. When retrieving goods, it is the opposite, the forklift starts to take away the pallets from the outermost pallet and then gradually moves inward.

Push-in type pallet shelving is suitable for the storage of large-batch, standardized goods. Its effective space utilization rate can reach up to 90%, and the total height can be designed to be over 8 meters, with a storage capacity almost twice that of the beam-type shelving. It is widely used in industries such as beverages, food, tobacco, chemicals, and cold storage.