Pan World Brands – heavy duty pallet racking, short span shelving, and low level picking

The challenge

Pan World Brands and Worldwide Golf Brands originally contacted us with plans of expansion and, whilst both both companies currently held their own separate warehouses, they’d made the decision to join forces within a shared facility. Although Pan World Brands already had pallet racking within their existing warehouse, it was clear that they would require a whole new system as the beam length and duty was insufficient for their new storage needs. Worldwide Golf Brands didn’t have any existing racking and were open to all options.

The solution

Following a site visit and survey, the decision was made that the existing pallet racking used by Pan World Brands would now be used by Worldwide Golf Brands, with the vast majority of this racking being able to be reused.

The plan for both companies was to use a flexi forklift truck so that they could make use of the the small aisle widths whilst also being able to fully utilise the impressive height of their warehouse. Having agreed on the layouts, top quality pre-owned racking was supplied to both firms in order to increase their overall pallet count whilst providing excellent value for money.

Pan World Brands had decided that they would also need a larger area for the pick and pack operation. To work alongside this operation, we agreed that short span shelving would be beneficial, allowing the racking to be used for bulk storage whilst using the shelving for smaller boxed items.

Worldwide Golf Brands took a different route, preferring to cover the whole of their floorspace in pallet racking whilst incorporating the pick and pack operation within the lower picking levels of the racks. We allowed for supply of extra beam and decks for picking level operation.

The outcome

The whole project was a complete success – no mean feat given the complexity and size of the challenge.

Both companies had to move out their current units and be moved into the new combined unit by a certain date and with minimal downtime and disruption. There were a number of times during the project that this appeared increasingly unlikely but, thanks to a close working relationship and our ability to always be contactable, the customer was never worried.

Thanks to our outstanding work on this project we’ve been rewarded with many more orders, including additional pallet racking, short span shelving, end of row racking protection barriers, individual leg protection guards, anti-collapse meshing to prevent the fall of any pallets into pedestrian areas, workbenches and a Nilfisk scrubber dryer.