The Linwood Fabric Company is one of the UKs top fabric suppliers providing quality collections of fabrics, wallpapers and cushions.
HMF have been carrying out projects for The Linwood Fabric Company now for over 10 years and in that time have carried out office refurbishment projects as well as designing and installing their sampling facilities.
Linwood Fabrics have a large warehouse with various types of storage equipment ranging from pallet racking to longspan systems and mezzanine storage platforms which HMF have historically maintained and modified.
Recently Linwood Fabric required a fit out for extending the current cutting facilities and HMF has provided new single skin solid/glass/solid steel partitioning to form an enlarged cutting room area.
HMF also specified a double channel rail barrier system to protect this partitioning forming a corridor so that fork lift truck activity would not impact on the partitioning in this area.
Part of the project was to modify existing pallet racking and provide new splices to extend the racking in height using existing materials. This was then installed using new pallet racking materials and safety column guard protectors.
To the rear of this racking an anti-collapse mesh partition was formed with 150mm standoff brackets that therefore set back the mesh screen away from the back of the racking to enable pallets to be sited with the pallets overhanging the back beams.
HMF also designed 2 new mobile rack systems using existing pallet racking. These were designed to be robust and easily movable and HMF identified that heavy duty welded baseplates would be required to be fitted up inside the racking uprights to give a strong connection detail.HMF went out and specified new heavy duty swivel castors with 200mm diameter wheels that were each rated as 400Kg loading thereby giving the flexibility for the racks to be fully loaded and still be pushed easily.
To enhance safety the castors were specified with brake castors that were operated by foot so easy to lock into positions where the mobile racks were sited.
The warehouse refurbishment was completed on programme and the mobile racks are working well.