Storage Cages & Bins

Steel bins, wire mesh cages and post pallets

What goes in a unit, and how it will be lifted and moved, decides which type to buy, so the range is set out here by its contents.

Solid steel bins for clamps, stakes and small parts

Loose metalware that could slip through mesh belongs in a welded bin with solid sheet sides and a solid base. The solid steel bins for scaffold clamps hold clamps, pins and other scaffold hardware. The same welded bin is also listed as road form stake bins and as fence clamp bins for bulk fence clamps. For tools and mixed parts on sites and in warehouses, the industrial steel storage bins are the general-purpose choice, and the Vinnie Bin is the long, large-volume bin for bulk tube and fittings in contractors' yards.

Stackable steel and mesh bins with drop fronts

Parts picked by hand through the day are easier to reach in a bin with a half or full drop front, because the contents can be taken out without lifting off the bin above. The range includes stackable steel bins with drop fronts in solid sheet and stackable mesh bins in the same sizes. On larger units, drop door storage cages and drop front pallet boxes give the same front access. The Gitterbox wire mesh containers combine mesh walls with a corrugated steel deck and a half-drop gate, and the mesh steel bins are plain mesh cubes for bulky stock that has to stay visible for stock control.

Collapsible wire mesh pallet cages

Bulky, boxed or irregular goods that would not sit safely on a flat pallet go in a mesh cage on a steel base. The collapsible wire mesh pallet cages range holds tools, parts, surplus stock and demolition debris in zinc plated or galvanized cages, and the folding Gitterbox containers add a drop gate for hand access.

Post pallets and scaffold tube racks

Scaffold tube, posts and other long stock lie across a frame with a post at each corner, which holds the load in place and carries the next frame stacked on top. Standard post pallets take scaffold tube and edge protection posts, double post pallets take scaffold planks and wider loads, and solid base post pallets hold shorter components that would drop between bars. Pipe, rebar and tube longer than a standard frame go on extended racks for pipe and long stock, and scaffold tube stackers hold tube in a U-shaped frame with no banding.

Racks for fence panels, barricades and edge protection

Panels and barriers are awkward to stack loose and bend easily, so each has a rack matched to its shape that a forklift loads straight onto a truck. Temporary fence panel racks hold standard mesh fence panels, and construction fence panel racks take solid site wall panels and steel fence panels. Pedestrian barricades with fixed legs, loose legs or plastic frames go in barricade storage racks, and edge protection barriers travel in galvanized edge protection barrier racks.

Crane lift goods cages

Loads going to an upper floor, onto a roof or over a structure travel in cages built to hang from a crane hook, with safe working loads of up to 6,600 lb across the range. The crane lift goods cages carry loose and non-palletized supplies such as cable, fittings and tools, and the heavy duty goods carrying cages with ramps add a loading ramp on the double-width versions. The IBC lifting cage houses a bulk liquid tote for lifting and transport, and the crane cage for waste carts brings commercial waste carts down from upper floors behind lockable gates.

Lockable cages for gas cylinders, rigging and hazardous materials

Pressurized, hazardous and high-value stock goes behind a locked door. Gas cylinder storage cages hold propane, butane and oxygen cylinders in welded mesh with feet drilled for bolting down, and propane and gas bottle cages take smaller groups of cylinders, with wheels or a solid roof as options. Chains, slings, shackles and hooks are kept together and locked away in rigging storage cages or rigging storage lockers. Fuel, gas and chemical containers sit over a welded sump in the hazardous materials cage with sump, and tools or test equipment that need an enclosed steel box go in the lockable forklift crate.

Drum and pallet racks

Oil drums and barrels are stored on their sides and stacked in stackable drum racks. Where a leak has to be caught, drums and totes stand on spill containment pallets. Steel racks sized for standard Euro pallets, the Euro pallet storage racks, stack with fixed or removable posts, and oversized pallet racks are the reinforced choice for loads wider than a standard pallet.

Storage cages for warehouses and fencing fleets

Temporary fencing and event equipment fleets

Fencing and event fleets send large quantities out and back on short notice, so storage has to load quickly and make missing stock obvious on return. Panels travel in their racks and fence clamps in their bins, with the temporary fencing accessories counted out alongside them. Barricades go out in their racks, and barricade carts on swivel casters move them along a route where a forklift cannot go.

Warehouses, factories and maintenance stores

In stores where parts are picked by hand many times a day, access decides the layout, and the open-front picking bins let fixings and consumables be picked from a stacked column.