Mezzanines are a cost-effective way of providing extra space for your work
Company growth is always exciting, but it can bring new challenges. One of these challenges could be how you use your warehouse's space. While your warehouse may have been perfect for your needs previously, you may worry that you've outgrown the space and need to relocate. A relocation can cause many problems, such as moving costs, space adaptation and more.
A much simpler solution is to add a warehouse mezzanine. Designed to provide more floor space, a warehouse mezzanine is a structural addition that creates a new level in the warehouse.
Burns Industrial Equipment is an expert provider of warehouse mezzanine systems. Through our talented design team, professional installation service and excellent customer service, we help businesses get the most out of their warehouse space.
Why Add a Warehouse Mezzanine?
There are many reasons why growing businesses may want to add a mezzanine to their warehouse:
Increase Usable Workspace
The main reason that businesses tend to install structural warehouse additions is to increase their usable workspace. A mezzanine does this by creating an additional level between the floor and ceiling, increasing the warehouse's floorspace without extending its perimeter. Easy to install, mezzanines can create additional space without any major disruptions to your operations.
With this extra workspace, businesses can expand their existing processes and teams to meet growing demand.
Create Distinct Working Areas
Another reason that businesses install a warehouse mezzanine is to provide their team with distinct working areas. These clear distinctions allow you to designate each area to a specific task or team. With clearly defined areas, your team can easily recognize their assigned workspace. This knowledge can improve health and safety, as it's easy for your team to know which task-specific regulations apply to which areas of your warehouse.
Plus, if your business introduces a new service or product, you can dedicate your mezzanine to this new area of operations while minimizing the disruption this expansion could cause to your existing operations.
Provide More Storage Space
Additionally, you can create dedicated storage areas in your warehouse. Rather than storing materials throughout your team's operating areas, you can declutter your warehouse through mezzanine racking, further enhancing health and safety in your warehouse.
All of this is particularly useful to growing businesses that plan to store more materials, introduce new machines or hire new staff members.
Customize Your Structure
When you relocate to a larger property to accommodate your growing business, you have to adjust your operations to the existing space. But when you install your own custom-designed mezzanine, you have complete freedom to tailor it to your business. This custom design ensures that your mezzanine perfectly fits your warehouse's dimensions. You can also add amenities to your industrial mezzanine floor, such as kitchens, storage, outlets and more.
Choose the Right Mezzanine Provider
If you decide that your business could benefit from adding new structural elements to your warehouse, you need to find a provider who can design, build and install your mezzanine. This provider should:
- Deliver a quality service: Your provider should be dedicated to delivering premium quality in every aspect of their service, from the materials they use to their customer service.
- Be experienced: A provider with a wealth of experience can deliver the perfect mezzanine for your warehouse while keeping the entire process easy for you.
- Be compliance-aware: Health and safety standards, such as OSHA 1910.28, are likely to apply to your mezzanine. Having a provider who understands which standards will apply to your mezzanine and how to ensure that it's compliant is key.
- Offer different types of mezzanines: A provider that offers various mezzanine types is more likely to meet all your needs. These types can range from steel mezzanines that can support heavy weights to a pallet rack mezzanine that provides additional storage space underneath your structure.
At Burns Industrial Equipment, we provide all these elements and are confident that we can deliver a custom mezzanine that meets your needs.
Get Your Mezzanine From Burns Industrial Equipment
Mezzanines provide growing businesses with the opportunity to adapt their existing warehouse to suit their evolving needs. Compared to the costs and disruption of relocating to a larger warehouse or acquiring a second one, increasing your current workspace through additional structural elements is often the best solution.
With over five decades of experience, Burns Industrial Equipment has built mezzanines for countless businesses across four states. As a respected Hyster and Yale dealer, we only deliver mezzanines of the highest quality.
To find out how we can provide a mezzanine that's tailored to your warehouse and business needs, contact us today.
