The Norish shared user multi temperature controlled site, located in Brierley Hill, West Midlands has completed an extensive 6 month project, where almost 60% of the racking has been replaced, without any disruption to their many customers.

This ambitious £270k project was undertaken to replace all of the deep drive in and sections of the mobile racking, in favour of 1.9 m narrow aisle racking, operated with a new fleet of Flexi Trucks. Norish’s Managing Director Norman Hatcliff said “whilst the old racking maximised the cubic space available for storing frozen and chilled product, we identified that changes in customer’s supply chains would require fast and easier access to individual pallets. We therefore took the decision to install the narrow aisle racking, which provided the most cost effective and pallet accessible solution.”

The time taken from the initial concept to completion was impressive, especially when considering that the work took place in temperatures of minus 23 degrees and with a wind chill factor bringing temperatures down to minus 30. Over a period of 5 months, in excess of 7,700 racking spaces were removed and replaced with new racking.

Norish Site Manager; Simon Abbott said “Even the removal of the old racking took considerable pre-planning as this generated the need to download and then dismantle in excess of 150 tonnes of racking that had to be taken out of the cold store without any disruption to the complex 24/5 operation at the West Midlands site.

John Maguire at Narrow Aisle Ltd, 0121 557 6242 www.flexi.co.uk