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Round Corner Corrugated Containers

Posted on Sep 28, 2020
The Lasting Solution to Rugged, Low-Cost Bulk Parts Storage The all-purpose industrial container is built for abuse, custom to the application.   Heavy corrugated steel sides and deck make Steel King’s Round Corner Corrugated Containers a rugged, low-cost, all-purpose solution [read more...]

Why Powder Coat?

Posted on Sep 11, 2020
There are several advantages to powder coating – and its process – over wet painting. We are all familiar with the wet paint process – pigment within a water- or solvent-base is sprayed to coat a surface. While at first [read more...]
How Nebraska Furniture Mart’s DFW warehouse systems deliver the goods What does it take to run the country’s largest home furnishings store, Nebraska Furniture Mart’s Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas location, a 1.3 million sq. ft. distribution center with an attached warehouse [read more...]
Recent earthquakes in the Midwest and East Coast point to increased need for seismic consideration in warehouse construction While we typically associate earthquakes with areas such as California, recently Monroe, Michigan, was hit with a 3.2-magnitude earthquake. Light to weak shaking was [read more...]

Going to Great Lengths in Rack Design

Posted on Jul 24, 2020
So what exactly is cantilever design, and when is it the ideal storage rack?  Modern architecture has used the concept of a cantilever design in some of its most memorable structures:  Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the Guggenheim Art [read more...]
Building Material Supplier Overcomes Weather Extremes and Restrictive Ordinances Through Cantilever Design In Order to Optimize Storage and Enhance Customer Experience When Reeves Ace Hardware of Highland, NC, decided to improve the efficiency of their lumber and building material operations, [read more...]

Remote Weld Audit a Success

Posted on Jul 10, 2020
Steel King’s welding operations maintain standards set forth by both the American Welding Society (AWS) and the Canadian Weld Bureau (CWB). Recently both New London and Stevens Point were due for their CWB audit. Certified companies must continually demonstrate compliance [read more...]
Manufacturer’s beam tables are generally based on uniformly distributed loads. Both the capacity and the beam deflection will vary if the load is not uniformly distributed on the load shelf beams. While some degree of deflection is normal for a [read more...]