Steel cabinets are everywhere , and A PLus Warehouse is the place to get to
get them! When looking into a steel cabinet , the customer should first consider capacity and use. Steel cabinets used for general office use are typically called office cabinets and sport a capacity of about 150 pounds per shelf. Cabinets in this capacity range are available unassembled and can be found in some big box stores. A Plus Warehouse focusses more on the heavier duty industrial cabinets that are 16 gauge and thicker.
The steel cabinet shown on this right is the famous KingCab storage cabinet which is made from 12 gauge steel and is manufactured right here is g ood old USA!
Steel cabinets come in many sizes and types , and A Plus Warehouse has a broad selction of quality products available to our awesome customers! Hybrids are not just cars. Hybrid cabinets are also popular!
How about customers that have many small parts to store? These customers may need bin cabinets - cabinets with bins included inside. Some customers want to be able to store items on the side of a steel cabinet. Steel cabinets can be made with louvered panels welded to the side so that bins can hook on the outside. We can even put many steel cabinets on casters to make them into mobile cabinets
Whatever your steel cabinets requirement , let us know , and we'll make it happen for you!
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Lockers make life better most everywhere they are used. A locker enables
workers and visitors to have a secure and safe place to store their items. Homes use lockers for centralized storage and for a school aesthetic in the home. For the heck of it , I decided to make a list from A to Z of locker buyers. Here we go..
- AAA-Athletic Facilities
- BBB-Boys Locker Room
- CCC-Cathouse (Nevada)
- DDD-Defense Department
- EEE-Engine Repair Shops
- FFF-France uses lockers too
- GGG-Girls Locker Room
- HHH-Home
- III-Industrial Flooring Companies
- JJJ-Jump Sites ( parachute storage )
- KKK-Kite manufacturers
- LLL-Lamb Slaughter Houses
- MMM-Maintenace Faxilities
- NNN-Neanderthall research labs
- OOO-Orange Juice producers
- PPP-Pencils manufacturers
- QQQ- Don Quixote - He needs to store his lance somewhere
- RRR-Rhino Den
- SSS-Subterarian survival cavern
- TTT-Television Studios
- UUU-Umbrella Manufacturers
- VVV-Velocity Fuse Distributors
- WWW-Winch distributors ( hey , we are one of them )
- YYY-You too! Get on the stick here!
- ZZZ-Zoos
There is the A-Z of who buys lockers. Please note letter Y... You too!
Now that we have covered that , let's consider where to buy
lockers.
Since I have exhausted most of my creativity in this A-Z list , I'd like to keep the list of suppliers just to A - so , here is the list of all dealers that can see you lockers..
AAAA- A Plus Warehouse Equipment & Supply
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Industrial Casters are certainly not the casters you'd put on your home
furniture. By it's name , one can tell that industrial casters are heavy duty casters used for industry. The beauty shown on the right is the Payson Dual Wheel caster - which is made in USA with capacity of 10,000 pounds per unit and greater in some cases!
Casters are the very backbone of materials handling companies. The most basic 'handling' done to any material is moving the item. Putting casters under even the heaviest items allows mobility! A Plus Warehouse has been selling industrial caster lines by Payson, Hamilton, Triopines, and Fairbanks since 1996 and we are still rolling ( haha - get the joke? Rolling - casters -- funnnny)
As always , A Plus Warehouse works with manufacturers each with their own specialty. Here is a run down of the great industrial casters vendors in the A Plus Warehouse stable.
- Payson - Completely made in USA. When the US Military or Government orders , and needs 100% made in America , Payson is the quality answer! Hamilton and Fairbanks also have a significant made in America offering as well
- Hamilton - Great for extra heavy duty and machine pull applications. When customers need tapered bearings for speed , the decision is typically Hamilton. Hamilton has a branded Industrial Casters Page
- Fairbanks - One of A Plus Warehouse's first lines, Fairbanks has been making quality carts and casters for over 100 years in Georgia. Fairbanks offers several imports for a low price , and many made in America industrial casters for quality and capacity.
- TrioPines - This Korean company knows a thing or two about casters! Triopines makes a great caster for industrial purposes - including fancy application casters such as shock absorbing casters. Trio is a good choice when made in USA is not an issue ( Although , final assembly is done here in USA - the casters are imported as wheels and brackets )
Industrial casters is a staple line of material handling dealers , and A Plus Warehouse offers you a great line up of quality casters!
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How , you may ask are medical carts available at A Plus Warehouse , the
nationally renowned material handling dealer? Excellent question. A fairly common piece of handling equipment is the noble platform truck, and it makes sense that A Plus Warehouse would sell these items. Lakeside manufacturing is one of our great stainless steel cart providers. It just so happens that Lakeside products fine medical carts as well - so they were added to the A Plus Warehouse offering. These fit in nicely , as we have many hospitals as customers.
The item shown on the right is a standard emergency cart or crash cart. These can be found in every hospital and many doctors offices. Although doctors and medical technicians need tools for their tasks , using inductrial mobile tool boxes is the wrong image for hospitals! Of course in the back room , hospitals are chock full of industrial storage equipment such as warehouse racks, stackable bins, industrial shelving and work benches as well. It is through these items that hospitals have had interactions with A Plus Warehouse historically.
I mentioned that there are threee types of medical carts.
They are:
Emergency Carts -- Typicall Red - used for emergencies (duh) like heart attacks , strokes , and other urgent matters. You will find these in the Emergenct Room for the most part.
Anesthesia Carts -- Where ever doctors need to pass gas ( sorry about that one!)
and
Isolation Carts -- Typically yellow ,these carts are kept to within certain isolated areas within a hospital. Isolation carts can be in any given hospital wing.
Lakeside makes fine medical carts - please use the button below to start a diaog with A Plus Warehouse about the medical carts you may need.
Mini Lockers are used in schools and homes as well, and customers could be surprised to know
that industrial distributors such as A Plus Warehouse offer these items. There are four major vendors we deal with that manufacture mini lockers. There lines are:
Hallowell List - The company that brings you Valumax and Digitech lockers
JontiCraft - The Company that produces KidzSafe line of wooden lockers
Penco -Makers of the ever popular Vanguard locker
ASI - Providing fine imported lockers
The mini locker shown on the right is a JontiCraft item. Jonticraft is the line we suggest for pre-schools. Hallowell List makes a locker similar to corridor metal lockers , but much shorter for kids - also with colors young people like. The Jonticraft mini locker can be used in some very interesting applications beyond schools!
JontiCraft makes a 4 door mini locker that can be stacked 3 units high. These openening are quite a bit larger than the size of a typical wall mounted horizontal strip. For this reason , we see the military, fire departments , and even industry ordering these kids lockers. Here at A Plus Warehouse , any item is available to any customer. We discriminate agains customers ONLY on their ability and willingness to pay for what we deliver! I know the D word is scare and not often used , but A Plus Warehouse customers are amongst the best anywhere , because there is a mutual respect between customer and dealer.
We sell all kinds of lockers , and I'd suggest you download out free buyers guide. The guide was no small amount of effort on my side , so I sure hope you use it!
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Castors are essential for industry. Items that need to move on the floor can
do so with the help of conveyors , or on a castered dolly.
Before getting to the nitty gritty , I'd like to explain that castors is just an alternative spelling to casters - there is no difference. I will provide some interesting castors trivia , however.
When you were a kid , do you remember cator oil ? Well , as a blog author , I always consider alternative keywords , then research what they really mean. In the case of Castor - according to
World English Dictionary
| castor 1 (ˈkɑːstə) |
| |
| — n |
| 1. |
the brownish aromatic secretion of the anal glands of a beaver,used in perfumery and medicine |
| 2. |
the fur of the beaver |
| 3. |
a hat made of beaver or similar fur |
| 4. |
a less common name for beaver |
Did you ever think you were drinking Beaver anal secretions when consuming castor oil ? Yuck! Also , what doctor came up with the idea of using that stuff? Most likely the same guy who scraped mold off a dead pizza and called in penicilin.
Suffic to say , A Plus Warehouse sells castors - like pictured on the right in both swivel and rigid. There are other types of casters as well - such as stem type, king pinless, threaded and shock absorbing. When looking for a castor , also consider the wheel tyoe required. Polyurethane is great because it is non marking and has excellent capacity. Phenolic has a similarly large capacity , and costs less - however can be noisy.
From light to heavy duty , A Plus Warehouse is your castor source - and not in the Harry Potter - spell castor mode!
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Bike Lockers are great for use in condominiums , and anywhere protection for
bikes is benefitial. Companies that utilize bike lockers from A Plus Warehouse show their green friendly employees that the corporation cares about carbon footprint and all that enviro stuff.
The image shown is the A Plus Warehouse bike locker . Some folks would call it a bike shed. The guy or gal ordering it can call it whatever they want! This shed is 108 inches wide x 72 inches deep x 88 inches high. Bicycles are given some shelter from the environment , and we throw in a bike rack along with the unit. The bike locker ships unassembled to save shipping. Assembly is very straight forward. To make things even easier , A Plus Warehouse provides the Bicycle Locker Approval drawing and assembly instructions right on the product page!
Here at A Plus Warehouse , we make it easy to order your bike locker and lockers in general
One may wonder how A Plus Warehouse - your trusted materials handling dealer - starts selling bike lockers. I am glad you asked!
Materials handling dealers not only provide equipment to handle stock , they also provide efficiency and optimisation for warehouses and manufacturing customers. Inlant office buildings certainly add to efficiency of a plant - bringing management out into the facility! For this reason , inplant offices started being offered by major materials handling dealers over 25 years ago. Once an item is added , if successful , it multiplies. Inplants lead to smoking shelters which in turn lead to bike lockers - which is roughly the story!
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Lifting Magnets are the future of materials handling , and many customers are
not even aware of them. The purpose of a lifting magnet is to allow an opertator to lift steel or other flat magnetic material with the use of a hoist. A lifting magnet makes slings obsolete!
The Lifting Magnet shown on the right is the hands free lifting magnet. The great thing about the hands free option is that the lifting magnet turns itself on! The switch is built into the magnet's shackle. When the hoist pulls on the shackle , the post extends a few inches and that extension turns on the permanent magnet , and you are lifting carbon steel! All the lifting magnets shown at apluswhs.com are permanent magnets - either ceramic or rare earth type. With the magnets being permanent , and not powered coils , obviously, power supoplies are not used!
I'd like to explain an application in which the hands free lifting magnet would be great. How would you lift 2,000 pounds of carbon steel that is on the top level of a structural pallet rack ? ( we sell the rack also , btw )
With slings , a person would need to be raised to the level of the load and have to deploy slings properly, then have a forklift or crane operator position a hoist , then connecrt the hoist to the slings and hope the slings were positioned correctly. With the hands free lifting magnet , the forklift operator positions the lifting magnet on to the middle of the load , then lifts. If he lifts an inch and sees the steel is not lifting evenly , he just lowers the hoist , and tries again. Since lowering the magnet kills the field , repositioning is simple! The customer has saved the labor of one full person , and took that person down. Whenever possible , people should stay where gravity wants them!
Please read up on ASME Standard B30.20 about safety. Although my observation is CERTAINLY NOT legal OSHA advice , I always suggest being practical and looking out for hazards on your own. For example , ASME states that workers should not stand under hoists that are carrying a load. REALLY?? I am so glad there is a 20 page rule that explains workers are not to be forced to stand under a live load!
Lifting Magnets can really help in the efficiency and safety of your plant.
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Industrial storage cabinets are popular mostly because they are far more
durable than typical office cabinets. Of course A Plus Warehouse sells both types of cabinet , and we certainly do not disparage the noble office cabinet! When a customer wants to store 150 pounds of paper or supplies per shelf, by all means , the office cabinet is the smart choice. When the customer wants to store over 1000 pounds of tools and equipment per shelf , the decision moves to heavy duty industrial storage cabinets.
Question: What would you do for a free industrial storage cabinet ? Just wondering?
The see through industrial storage cabinet shown on the right is the 12 Gauge KingCab unit. This item rocks a capacity of 1,900 pounds per shelf for some sizes. As a rule of thumb , the lower the gauge number , they thicker the metal and the greater the capacity. Any KingCab item at A Plus Warehouse is going to be the most rugged - with the KingCab industrial storage cabinets always made from 12 gauge steel. Industrial grade cuts off at 16 Gauge , but be carefull - as some dealers may call an 18 gauge storage cabinet 'industrial'.
A Plus Warehouse offers the unique BigBlue line of industrial storage cabinets in 14 Gauge - or 12 by special order. 14 Gauge has pleanty of capacity with about 1/2 ton capacity per shelf on the low end. The great thins about BigBlue cabinets are their capacity and interesting color selection. To the best of my knowledge , the A Plus Warehouse BigBlue industrial storage cabinet is the only cabinet on the market produced with two colors per cabinet. A standard bigblue is Dark Blue with Red features ( drawers, etc ) - also , colors can be customized to 20 standard colors at no extra cost!
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To Rack one's brains means to cause much mental anguish ( or thinking ). I'd
humbly argue the ordering racking from A Plus Warehouse will make it so your brain is nor racked. This is true because of our amazing product knowledge, Deep inventory,attentive salespeople,and an ultra cool webmaster as well! How can a customer possibly have an easier time at ordering racking than when the order is with A Plus Warehouse?
The racking shown on the right is Scotland rack's Scotch Rack product. Scotch Rack has been produced for WAY over 30 years in Pennsylvania. One can consider this specialized racking to be 'bulk rack'
Let's take a side step and consider the linguistics of racking a brain. Now , I am not Marina Orlova from hotforwords.com , but for a 48 year old white male material handling blogmaster...stick with the video of Marina and not yours truely.
Anyway..The rack was an old school torture device. Put a prisoner on the rack , tie down his feet and hands , then he gets stretched as a big screw is turned. OUCH - the rack really helped in getting confessions! When you torture your brain , it as if it was on an old fashioned torture rack!
The racking we sell is nothing evil , just product you'd use to store inventory on.
Some types of racking include:
Pallet Racking - The Queen of all storage equipment. Pallet racking is used to store bulk loads of heavy supplies. Pallet rack can be loaded by forklift
Cantilever racking - Cantilever racking is sometimes called lumber rack , as it can be used to store lumber or tubing
Boltless Selving - Inexpensive, easy to assemble bulk shelving. Great for wide but not too heavy loads.
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