Bacon cold store holds 1,100 pallets

The newly opened Direct Table Foods bacon processing factory in Bury St Edmunds gave the company the opportunity to design and build a...

The newly opened Direct Table Foods bacon processing factory in Bury St Edmunds gave the company the opportunity to design and build a state-of-the-art factory. Opening last summer, the chilled warehouse design features a Link 51 pallet racking installation.

The £20M investment at Bury St Edmunds is centred around nine production lines on which a wide range of bacon products are prepared and dispatched to customers.

The company specified a racking system that could house 1,100 pallet positions in the cold store which operates down to -5°C. At the same time it wanted to make full use of the height of the warehouse in order to accommodate occasional block-stacking of trays to meet the needs of one customer.

This meant creating five levels of storage, including the floor. The aisles, installed back-to-back, feature bays of two pallet widths each.

In addition, Link 51 galvanised pallet racking is used in the brine mix store at the factory.

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