racking protection

racking protection iconRack Armour racking protection products have been a global success for over a decade, their innovative design and functionality have revolutionised racking protection and the way it should perform forever.

When purchasing racking protection you’ve got to be sure the product your purchasing will perform to the highest standard with the minimum fuss. Rack Armour is now the chosen product of countless blue chip clients who have reduced their racking damage significantly by installing our product.  With guaranteed racking damage reductions of 80%+, isn’t it time you tried Rack Armour?

Upright Protection Range

The Rack Armour upright protector has been a global success for over a decade, its innovative design and functionality has revolutionised racking protection and the way it should perform forever.

With proven cost savings of up to 80% in the world’s largest retail companies, Rack Armour is an attractive proposition for any warehouse with pallet racking, but before you make any decisions let’s tell you how Rack Armour works and the immediate benefits of installing the guard…

Colour/Detection: Rack Armours colour is of immense importance, it creates a focal point for drivers of mechanical handling equipment and gives them a definitive indicator of their safe working limitations. Rack Armour comes as a standard hi-visibility yellow, but is also available in a green and red colours for one way systems or to highlight fire equipment and first aid areas.

Tough Outer Shell: Rack Armours outer shell is made from an exceptionally resilient and hard wearing plastic designed to take high velocity impacts. The shape of the shell was designed to repel and deflect impacts away from the upright, in turn reducing damage significantly.

Impact Diffusing Foam Interior: Something that sets Rack Armour apart from its competition is its closed cell foam interior. Acting as a cushion between the racking and the plastic shell, the specialist foam diffuses impact energy and diverts the kinetic energy away from the racking upright, saving you money and time on a replacement leg.

Tough Outer Shell: Rack Armour comes as standard at 600mm high, this area was proven in extensive testing to receive the brunt of all impacts from mechanical handling equipment. The guard comes in 3 varieties which together accommodate all racking sizes and types.

Ease of installation: Thanks to Rack Armour’s unique shape, the guard can easily be installed by hand on any racking type, this enables Rack Armour to be fitted in seconds without the use of power tools and drilling needless holes into your warehouse floor. Rack Armour is also the first and only plastic protector product on the market that’s fitted by hand which doesn’t disengage the racking from everyday pallet retrieval operations. This is something that sets us apart from any other product on the market today.

Zero floor damage: Often metal systems are drilled to the concrete which in turn takes the brunt of every impact the guard takes, the impact energy disperses to the floor and the fixings. This often leaves the floor crumbling and weak. Rack Armour requires no fixtures or fittings, it simply clips onto your upright giving you peace of mind that your floor and racking is in good hands.

Green product: Totally recyclable, Rack Armour upright protectors are up to 7 times lighter than most metal protection systems on the market, it’s also proven to fit 16 times more units on a standard UK pallet, further reducing your transport cost and emissions.

Colour/Detection: Standard metal systems are often a drab and dull metallic colour making them almost unnoticeable to warehouse staff. Rack Armour barriers are a striking high visibility yellow, making them detectable to mechanical handling equipment operators, this in the first instance helps stop impacts from occurring at all.

Strength: Rack Armour barriers flex and absorb impacts which would render metal systems useless. They have a unique feature which enables the product to reform to its original shape after impact, giving you a product which can concede impacts all day every day and look like it’s been untouched hours later.

No painting: Rack Armour barriers are made from a solid high visibility plastic, this gives our barriers a clean and tidy appearance even after years of service and numerous impacts. Metal systems can often appear tired and in need of repair, a level of maintenance is required including painting which takes time and money.

Minimal Floor Damage: A standard metal barrier has no absorption qualities, this means that all the impact energy from collisions transfer straight down to the expensive concrete floor. This in most cases leaves you with not only a damaged barrier that needs replacing, but also a crumbled floor that needs relaying can be extremely expensive and time consuming work. A Rack Armour barrier flexes and absorbs impact energy through its unique foam interior, eliminating any transferable energy away from your floor, in turn saving you thousands in repair costs.

Absorption: Rack Armour barriers use the same unique foam diffuser as in the upright protector, helping to diffuse impact energy whilst a collision takes place.

Products in the barrier range

Single Rail Barrier – Straight forward strength

The Rack Armour Single Rail Barrier is the perfect solution to end of aisle racking damage, able to take multiple impacts and reform to its original shape, our single rail barrier is a perfect blend of strength, visibility and durability. If an impact does occur these barriers cylindrical shape aims to divert any impact away from the racking, furthermore reducing the chances of damaged racking and an unsafe warehouse.

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Double Rail Barrier – Strength and visibility

When a single barrier just isn’t big enough. Our Double Rail Barrier was designed with vision in mind, standing at a towering 630 mm high this barrier not only gives your rack ends solid protection, but also a highly visible indicator to those operating MHE to avoid impacts in the first instance. If an impact does occur these barriers cylindrical shape aims to divert any impact away from the racking, furthermore reducing the chances of damaged racking and an unsafe warehouse.

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Low Level Barrier – Strength epitomised

Our Low Level Barrier is the epitome of strength, its low centre of gravity means this barrier can take heavy impacts and simply reform to its previous state. Perfect for those areas where racking damage is high, our low level barrier is truly one tough cookie.

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Caterpillar Barrier – More legs mean more strength

Adapted from our Low Level Barrier, the Caterpillar Barrier is given extra strength from its multiple legs which are anchored to the ground using our state of the art bolts. A benefit to using the Caterpillar barrier over any other barrier is that it has no length restrictions, the barrier can literally come in any size you require giving you a totally bespoke fit every time.

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Floor Rail Barrier – Small, effective and extremely tough

The perfect solution for damage at low levels due to order pickers. The Rack Armour Floor Rail Barrier is made from our innovative ballistics grade materials which takes knocks and bumps from MHE that would otherwise render your racking or shelving damaged. This barrier is extremely popular with picking areas where fork lift trucks don’t operate, giving you a small yet extremely effective obstacle for all MHE.

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Standard Pedestrian Barrier - Safety through segregation

The perfect way to safely and securely segregate MHE and pedestrians from one another. Our pedestrian barriers are available in two or three rail variants depending on the level of protection required. Made from a tough HDPE this barrier variant is extremely resilient and visually striking, aiming in the first instant to be detected rather than hit.

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Single Bumper Pedestrian Barrier - Enhanced safety through segregation

For when a Standard Pedestrian Barrier isn’t enough. Our Single Bumper Pedestrian Barrier pairs functionality with increased strength and protection. The single bumper added to the base of the barrier gives this product an increased durability from forklifts and other MHE, further enhancing safety on your site.

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Double Bumper Pedestrian Barrier - Advanced safety through segregation

The strongest and most durable pedestrian barrier, this product is perfect for segregating extremely busy MHE areas from pedestrians. This barrier has the greatest impact strength out of our entire pedestrian range, a must for busy working warehouses who require a safe passage for staff.

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Gate - Access to safety

Add our high quality gate to any pedestrian barrier to create a safe and easy to use pedestrian access. Our gateposts are made from high quality steel encapsulated in our super strong HDPE.

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Bollard - Standalone safety

Standing tall at 1200mm, our bollards are perfect for adding strength and presence in much needed areas. Made from tough HPDE, Rack Armour bollards are able to take multiple hits and simply reform after impact.

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Single Bumper Barrier - The original and best

A must have barrier for any warehouse. The barrier is our most popular design giving users the right amount of visibility and strength whilst maximising space.

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Double Bumper Barrier - Double your protection

Doubling the protection value of a standard single bumper barrier, this product is a must have for those warehouses with large MHE moving product at a high frequency.

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Rack Armour Barrier Testing

The Rack Armour barrier range is the culmination of years of pain staking research and design, looking into what the market has to offer and improving on that to offer you the end user a product that has no negatives.

To do this our barrier range was tested comprehensively on our in house testing rig which enabled us to fine tune any issues and create a final product which not only exceeds European safety standards, but sets the bar for the industry as a whole.

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