Reel racks, while not the most common sight in a warehouse, can provide a number of benefits that can help warehouses of any type stay organized.
What are reel racks?
True to their name, reel racks are a type of vertical storage specifically designed to store spools, coils, or reels of various uses and sizes.
Each reel rack is built in an upright design with triangular supports and three metal bars stretching between them.These bars can allow you to hang spools from them, offering both convenient vertical storage for these items or supplies, as well as easy access to the materials coiled up within.
If further storage space is needed, these racks can be easily expanded with add-on units. These units can lengthen the bars between each upright, allowing you to support additional spools in the same easily accessible fashion.
What can reel racks be used for?
Reel racks are typically used to store any spooled object or material. This can often be helpful for warehouses that specialize in repair or manufacturing of goods, allowing you to store items like:
- Tubing
- Rope
- Wires
- Cables
or other typically-coiled materials used in construction, manufacturing, or maintenance.
Traditional logistics/commerce warehouses can often benefit from these racks as well, offering easy storage for such frequently-accessed packing materials such as:
- Bubble wrap
- Foam
- Rolls of paper
among others. In particular, a lot of e-commerce warehouses tend to keep reel racks located in their shipping or receiving areas, to help speed up the process of boxing up goods safely for them to be sent out on their way.