Project Spotlight Highlights: Cooler & Freezer Warehouse Renovation 35K pallet bays Reconfigured & new pallet racking Selective pallet rack with cant-leg frame Deep-Reach pallet rack with cant-leg frame 2-deep Push-back rack Completed while the facility was fully operational It took 3 phases, loads of coordination, and a lot of warm clothes and hot coffee to…

Pallet Rack Systems in Place and Ready for Inventory in New Georgia DC The Apex Spotlight is shining on a new build recently completed in a peach of a state. This northwest Georgia distribution center is set to open in a few months to service up to 300 fast-food restaurants in the southeast U.S. The…

Joliet, IL is the fastest-growing city in the Midwest and the 12th fastest growing city in the U.S. among cities of more than 100,000 people. Joliet is also the home of a bustling distribution center for a major Global 3PL. Rising labor costs and the need to increase throughput motivated this customer to seek new…

Things are looking up, way up, for a national health and wellness company as they expand their already sizable Midwestern distribution center to over a million square feet of optimized storage and inventory fulfillment… all with the help of the Apex team. As part of the 350,100 sq. ft. expansion to the existing 722, 320…

Cold-Storage Facility Opens in North East, MD with a Little Help from the Apex Warehouse Systems Team One of the things Maryland is known for is great food, so what better place to open a new state-of-the-art, cold-storage facility for a major U.S. pork processing company. Apex Warehouse Systems was pleased to be an integral…

Every Detail Attended to… Welcome to our latest Apex Project Spotlight! Each new build, tear-down or reconfiguration project is exciting for the Apex team. It’s where planning meets skill to make something terrific for our customers and this impressive new selective pallet rack and cantilever racking systems installation is no exception. Plus, there were very…

This may not be your favorite waterpark ride… but it might just be as cool! It’s a carefully engineered system of pallet flow rack, carton flow, racking components and mezzanines, integrated with both automatic and gravity conveyor plus spiral conveyor chutes. These systems are assembled together into a highly efficient, three-tiered storage and picking module.…

A leading national hardware cooperative recently launched a major supply chain restructuring effort which included the consolidation of several facilities and closing of one of its smaller retailer support warehouses in the Baltimore area. The Apex install (& dismantle) team was called in to tear down the pallet rack systems and clear the warehouse. Pallet…

  The most expensive warehouse to operate is a freezer storage facility. So when freezer space is underutilized and inefficient, it’s essentially like letting money fly out the door. In today’s competitive distribution landscape… waste is not an option, which was the case for one of our international food processing customers. Thanks to a series…

Performance auto parts deserve supercharged fulfillment, but that doesn’t always mean high-tech and expensive. Sometimes simple pallet rack is the best choice for an orderly, cost-effective, and efficient fulfillment operation… especially when it is expertly designed and installed. See how fast your operation can be up and running: time-lapse video. Project Details: 112,000 sq. ft.…