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News features from Shelf Space

Here are some news stories regarding products and Installations undertaken by Shelf Space that we hope you'll find interesting to read.

The New Waste Legislation Coming in March 2025: What You Need to Know

The new waste legislation, Simpler Recycling, is set to be introduced in England on the 31st March 2025. One of the most significant changes in the upcoming legislation is the introduction of mandatory recycling for all businesses. Businesses with 10 employees or more must separate glass, paper, metal, cardboard, plastic, and food waste. However, businesses with fewer than 10 employees have until the 31st March 2027 to comply.

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Benefits of mobile pallet racking

Storage can be expensive, so having a pallet racking system that can double the storage capacity of your existing space is brilliant. This is where mobile pallet racking comes in.

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Choosing the right pallet racking system for your business

A successful, functioning warehouse is dependent on a well-planned pallet racking system. Storage and logistics are the key components of making it work. Before proceeding with a storage solution you think might work for you, consider the following pointers to help you choose the right pallet racking system for your business.

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Advantages of Having An Efficient Pallet Racking System

When running a warehouse, it is important to find a method that will maximize your storage space. If you want to increase your profit and staff's productivity, you need to increase the available space, too. With incredible pallet racking systems, the owners can increase their storage space without spending too much.

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Why Your Business Needs Storage Space

When thinking of how much space you will need for your things, consider using storage unit as a cost-effective way of making the most of your space budget.

Maximise warehouse space with these expert tips

Maximise Warehouse Space with These Expert Tips

The cost of labour, equipment, and maintenance can add up to a significant amount of money. This makes operating a warehouse fairly expensive, regardless if you’re renting the structure or built it from the ground up. You want to make sure that your investment is put to good use by maximising all the space provided so you won’t have to spend on more. How?

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Top Tips to Effectively Manage a Cold Storage Warehouse

Cold storage warehouses conveniently keep perishable and highly temperature-sensitive products in pristine and perfect condition until it is time for them to get moving. This is particularly crucial for food items, which if exposed to inappropriate temperatures can lead to degradation, discoloration, or worse, bacterial growth. As a result, major profit loss could occur, or worse, the safety of consumers is compromised.

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Tips for Warehouse Transportation Safety

Here at Shelf Space, we know how important it is to have efficient systems in place in heavy duty working environments like warehouses, whether it be with adjustable pallet racking systems to ensure maximisation of space or having our anti-collapse mesh screens to capitalise on work safety.

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Planning Your Warehouse Layout (Part 1)

Changing the layout of your warehouse is an important decision to make, but one that must be done at times if you’re going to properly accommodate a new product line or if you want to add greater flexibility to the operations of your warehouse. However, when it comes down to creating an effective warehouse layout, you need to do a lot of planning to ensure that is a success.

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How Mobile Pallet Racking Can Help You

Mobile pallet racking is among the most efficient ways for you to achieve 100% accessibility to your pallets whilst helping to utilise your storage space more efficiently.

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Warehouse Maintenance Checklist

In order to keep a warehouse running smoothly, it’s essential that some form of maintenance is performed on a regular basis.

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How to Avoid The Most Common Warehouse Safety Hazards (Part 2)

Welcome back to our guide on the most common warehouse safety hazards and how to avoid them. In part one, we covered the more common warehouse hazards such as trips, fires and heavy equipment. In this part, we’ll be covering some more obscure but just as dangerous hazards to avoid.

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How Can Pallet Racking Benefit Your Business?

Pallet racking systems are used in a huge variety of different industries. They aren’t designed for one specific type, and can greatly benefit a whole host of different companies, even if they don’t realise it.

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Why Efficiency is Just as Important as Capacity

Whether you’re looking at mobile pallet racking, dynamic pallet racking or any of our other great systems, you might think that capacity is the number one factor – so long as you can fit more of your stock in, you’re sorted, right? While that’s not necessarily a mistake, and capacity is certainly an important factor for consideration, it’s absolutely crucial that you don’t make it the only thing influencing your decision.

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Selecting The Right Pallet Racking System: Which One Is For You? (Part One)

With so many racking systems to choose from, it can be hard deciding which one is right for your business. Depending on your storage needs, choosing the correct pallet racking system for your specific warehouse is vital in keeping your operations running smoothly. They are all designed to meet the individual needs of each business, and designed to make the most of space in your premises

Pallet Racking Mistakes and How To Avoid Them

Whether you are new to the concept of pallet racking, or a racking veteran, we all make mistakes. Luckily for you, we’ve put together a list of the most common pallet racking mistakes that people have made, so you don’t have to make them yourselves; saving you money and time, as well as keeping you and your employees safe

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Workhorse of the Warehouse: Why Pallet Racks Are Perfect

Ok, so you run a business, but there’s a tiny, niggling thought that’s scratching away at the back of your head like a fly in jam: You keep thinking your stock could be better organised; you keep imagining precisely what you’ll achieve, and how your business could be better. Time to invest in pallet racking.

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