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Stillage Hire vs Buy: Which Makes Sense for Your Business?
Hiring stillages can look like the easy option, but for most businesses that use them regularly, buying is the stronger investment. As a British stillage manufacturer since 1979, Range Storage has seen the same pattern time and again: hire suits a short-term gap,...
Colour Coding and Labelling Stillages for Better Warehouse Organisation
A warehouse full of identical steel stillages can quickly become difficult to navigate. When every unit looks the same, workers spend unnecessary time searching for the right components, materials end up in the wrong locations, and picking errors start affecting...
How Correct Stillage Design Reduces Forklift Handling Time
Every second a forklift spends aligning, repositioning, or manoeuvring around poorly designed storage equipment is time lost from productive operations. Across busy warehouses and factory floors, those seconds accumulate into hours of wasted capacity each week. The...
Integrating Stillages with Pallet Racking Systems for Maximum Efficiency
Storing goods on the warehouse floor might seem like the path of least resistance, particularly when you're dealing with components or materials that don't sit neatly on a standard pallet. Yet floor storage wastes vertical space, restricts picking access, and creates...
Stillages for the Pharmaceutical and Chemical Sector
Pharmaceutical and chemical operations demand storage and handling equipment that meets stringent hygiene, safety, and containment standards. Standard off-the-shelf storage simply does not cut it when you are dealing with sensitive compounds, hazardous substances, or...
How to Set Up a Stillage Return and Refurbishment Programme
Steel stillages are built to last, but years of intensive use, repeated handling, and exposure to harsh working environments inevitably take their toll. Rather than scrapping damaged units and purchasing replacements, a structured return and refurbishment programme...
Stillages for Aerospace and Defence Manufacturing
Aerospace and defence manufacturing demands precision, traceability, and absolute reliability at every stage of production and logistics. Components ranging from turbine blades and avionics assemblies to armoured vehicle parts require storage and handling solutions...
Stillages for Outdoor and Yard Storage: Protecting Your Investment
Storing materials, components, and finished goods outdoors introduces challenges that indoor environments simply don't present. Rain, fluctuating temperatures, ground moisture, and exposure to UV all take their toll on storage equipment and the goods inside. Steel...
The Role of Stillages in Lean Manufacturing and Just-in-Time Production
Lean manufacturing and just-in-time (JIT) production have transformed how businesses approach efficiency, waste reduction, and inventory management. Yet the physical infrastructure that supports these methodologies is often overlooked. Steel stillages play a practical...
Safe Stillage Stacking: Height Limits, Guidelines and Best Practices
A collapsed stack of stillages is one of the most avoidable serious incidents on a UK warehouse floor. They don't happen because stillages spontaneously fail; they happen because a stack was built too tall, loaded unevenly, placed on damaged feet or assembled with a...