Rackline is delighted to launch a new initiative aimed at assisting our new and existing clients when it comes to making decisions about office storage.

As an independent manufacturer that builds bespoke storage systems in an increasingly challenging world of having to maximize storage capacity and  floor space for our clients, Rackline has commissioned the services of an external third party consultancy, J.G.Regan Associates Ltd, to produce a

Best Practice Guide to Mobile Storage Solutions. JG Regan Associates are experts in advising clients on storage and filing solutions. It is designed to help you through the process of buying storage products and solutions from design and planning through to tender management and installation. It will help you structure the process that many public and private sector clients have gone through in order to achieve their objectives in mobile and static storage.

If you would like one of our account managers to talk you through the Guide and how best to use it, please contact us on 01782 770144.

The Guide is provided free of charge by Rackline. 

Rackline’s Multitrak mobile carriages have recently made a TV appearance on the new BBC 2 series ‘Museum of Life’, which features in depth behind the scenes footage at the Natural History Museum in London.

During 2008/2009 Rackline installed Multitrak floor tracks and mobile carriages onto 6 floors within the newly built £78 million state of the art Darwin Centre Cocoon.

The cocoons surface is hand-finished polished plaster, bound in steel channels resembling the silk threads of a real cocoon in nature.

The new Darwin Centre, by Scandinavian architects CF Møller, holds 17m entomology specimens and 3m botany specimens. At 60 metres long, 12 metres wide, 300 millimetres thick and covering 3,500 square metres, it is the largest sprayed concrete curved structure in Europe. It offers 1,040 square metres of laboratory space, doubling the size of the museum’s lab areas. The top three floors are devoted to spectacular new galleries, where some of the oldest and most precious objects in the collection, among them specimens brought back by Charles Darwin from the Beagle voyage, will be displayed.

Rackline began the installation of floor tracks to guide the mobile bases during 2008, all tracks were then set within a 60mm deep concrete screed. Bespoke mobile carriages to hold the specially designed cabinets were then installed with completion of the installation during early 2009. The delicate transfer of all collections then took place with the grand opening of the centre in September 2009; the cocoon was officially opened by Prince William and Sir David Attenborough.

At Rackline we have a few interesting ideas that may suit your particular requirement.

The ‘pull out’ map system is designed to allow maps to be stored individually, in a protective covering and hanging vertically, the maps can be removed independently and replaced when needed (picture 1 & 2). This application is idea for maps which cannot/should not be rolled up.

Short maps (picture 3) up to 1200mm long can be stored in ‘pigeon holes’ supported along their length but at 90 degrees to the user, allowing easy reference and maximum capacity.

A more traditional way of storing maps is to use cantilever shelving. This enables long maps to be laid on long horizontal shelves that can be lifted off easily without the hindrance of vertical front supports. The maps are supported along their entire length (shown on picture 4 behind the horizontal map cabinets).

Lastly vertical (picture 5) and horizontal (picture 6) map cabinets can be mounted onto mobile bases to maximise capacity.

If you would like Rackline to design a solution for you, call us now on 01782 770144 or email theeditor@rackline.co.uk