Transform unused Vertical Space into Efficient Storage or Work Areas with Warehouse Mezzanines
What is a Warehouse Mezzanine?
A warehouse mezzanine is a mid-level floor inserted between the primary warehouse floor and ceiling. Mezzanines transform unused overhead space into effective storage or workspaces without expensive construction. Mezzanines can stand alone or be supported by pallet racks, ensuring ample height for foot traffic, equipment use, and other warehouse activities below or above the deck.
Warehouse Mezzanines: Applications and Advantages
Introducing a mezzanine is an excellent way to leverage your facility’s unused vertical space to accommodate more pallet storage, additional picking space, equipment platforms, or private offices. If there’s a lot of room from your warehouse floor to the ceiling, a mezzanine lets you utilize it virtually any purpose you require. Common motivations for installing warehouse mezzanines include:
- Enhanced storage space
- Extra rooms/offices
- Equipment storage platforms
- Increased pick locations/pick modules
Maximizing Storage
As your warehouse operations expand, so does the demand for more space. Instead of building out, think about building up. Introducing a mezzanine to your upward space is an affordable way to reduce clutter, enhance organization and daily procedures, and improve worker safety.
Pallet storage, carton picking, and piece picking/kitting can all occur on mezzanine levels, freeing up more room on the main floor for in/out processing and larger inventory movement.
Creating Additional Rooms
In-plant modular offices can be installed on mezzanine levels to preserve space for storage and distribution activities. Mezzanine-level modular space can serve a variety of uses, such as offices, conference rooms, security, storage, cafeterias, or even a locker room for employees. Modular designs can be customized to meet your needs.
Whether it’s a simple, single-story office or a more complex two-story tower with multiple workspaces and facilities, personalized solutions can optimize cube space and enhance warehouse function, all at a sensible cost.
Using Mezzanines as Equipment Platforms
Relocate equipment off the floor and out of the way by using a mezzanine as an equipment room. The extensive options in materials and configurations make mezzanines perfect for all types of additional workspace.
Speeding Up Order Picking with Pick Modules
When customers are waiting for their orders, speed and efficiency are paramount. Trimet Storage Solutions uses mezzanines to design and install multi-level pick modules tailored to meet any need. Combine elements of warehouse mezzanines with work platforms, pallet racks, and conveyors to create a custom picking system that delivers loads to pickers on each level.
The result is a system that facilitates faster picking while conserving warehouse space. Workers can accomplish more with less travel time to identify SKUs.
Common Types of Mezzanines
- Freestanding Mezzanine – also known as Industrial Work Platforms (IWP)
- Rack supported
- Catwalk
Freestanding Mezzanines/IWPs
The IWP is a freestanding, robust structure that can be tailored to accommodate virtually any aspect of business expansion. From simple standard designs to multi-level custom structures, these bolt-together systems are built to manage the workload of a bustling operation.
Rack Supported Mezzanines
Rack-supported mezzanines can be designed within the pallet racking and over the aisle space or the top of the racking uprights.
Catwalks
The catwalk mezzanine provides safe and efficient access between two points in your facility, enhancing workplace safety and overall productivity.
Mezzanine Floors
There are several styles of flooring and several different materials that can be used depending on the intended use of your mezzanine.
Why Choose Trimet Storage Solutions for Warehouse Mezzanines?
There are plenty of options when designing a mezzanine or a series of interconnected raised platforms.
Our team at Trimet Storage Solutions has extensive experience designing and installing multi-faceted, multi-level mezzanines for various operational needs. Contact our team today so we can help you optimize your space to suit your specific operational needs.