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What is Boltless Shelving?

Boltless Shelving is the Preferred Choice

If you are new to the warehousing or retail industry, then you may not have heard of boltless shelving Singapore. Commonly also known as boltless racking or rivet shelving, boltless shelving is a popular storage solution that is frequently found in warehouses. Specially designed for manual access to small or medium sized loads, they often can hold up to 900kg in weight. This makes them popular in warehouses, pharmacies, record storage spaces and distribution centres. However, what exactly makes them more advantageous than other types of shelving? In this article we cover 2 distinct attributes that makes boltless racking the preferred choice of shelving. 

Rivet Shelving is Easy to Assemble

For starters, boltless racking is very user friendly in its assembly phase. Similar to that of furniture from an IKEA store, this type of rack can be fixed without prior experience in carpentry. Furthermore, since the design does not include any hard to handle nuts or screws, no screwing or nailing is required of the purchaser.  

Components of rivet shelving includes horizontal beams, upright posts and decking. The upright posts are the vertical stands which make up the boltless shelving and angle posts. Angle posts is used to reinforce the strength and durability of the unit, particularly at the corners. 

Horizontal beams help to connect the posts, serving as a four-sided support. Beams can be set up as either single or double layers. Single rivert beams offer bigger openings between shelf levels but are less stable than their double rivet beam counterparts. Regardless of which you choose, the shelves can be further adjusted in fixed length increments. 

Inventory Display Options

The see-through appearance of boltless shelving allows for aesthetically pleasing displays. Light naturally passes through the shelve, giving objects a more pleasing appearance. Clutter is also naturally prevented as users will be afraid of objects toppling out of the shelve. Typically, more care is devoted by users to arrange objects to prevent such. Therefore, boltless shelves are perfect for purchasers looking for an organised or display focused solution. 

The 4 sided see through characteristic of boltless shelves also allows the storing of bulky or awkwardly shaped objects. When users need to store bulky objects in shelves, they often times encounter the frustrating scenario of being unable to fit the object into an enclosed storage space. Rivet shelving gives slightly more space to inventory since it is not enclosed on any side, as such users can get away with attempting to store big objects. 

Boltless shelving is an excellent choice where objects are heavily labelled. The 4-sided view allows users to find particular product information, IDs or bar codes without having to remove individual units. This spares users of a lot of effort when they search for an individual unit.