The Vertical Storage Solution: High-Travel Lifts for Mezzanines and Multi-Level Buildings
Whether they are structural, free standing, or rack-supported, mezzanines are an efficient and cost-effective way to maximize storage space in industrial settings by taking advantage of the unutilized, wasted cubic footage between the floor and a high ceiling—a popular choice for increasing storage space in factories, distribution centers, and warehouses for decades
To bring the full benefits of these vertical storage zones to fruition, you’ll need more than the industry stalwarts, forklifts, conveyors, and freight elevators, to put your goods in the right place quickly and safely.
The right advanced vertical mezzanine lift system allows your business to transfer heavy loads between the ground floor, the mezzanine, and back, or to multiple floors of a taller structure.
The Versatile VRC, Not a Freight Elevator
Whether you’re managing a multi-level warehouse or incorporating mezzanines into your existing building’s layout, a high travel lift is what you need to make your multi-level warehouse or mezzanine storage area operations the very best they can be.
The VRC (vertical reciprocating conveyor) is the ideal solution for moving loads between storage levels or building floors. The very purpose of vertical material handling is in its design DNA, making it far superior to freight elevators—simply adaptations of their people-carrying counterparts.
Known for their small footprints and easy installation, our VRCs occupy minimal floor space, yet deliver maximum results. Their ability to handle repeated stops and the holding of cargo during loading or unloading improves workplace safety and smooths the overall operation.
The primary benefits of a VRC include:
- Reduced cost of installation, operation and maintenance compared to freight elevators
- The ability to accommodate loads of nearly any size or weight, superior to forklifts
- Essential safety features, both standard and optional
- Placement versatility that is far superior to both freight elevators and fork lifts
- Effective, straight-forward integration with high-speed and high-capacity lifting applications
Accommodating a wide variety of mezzanine designs, Autoquip’s custom VRC high-travel lift solutions position loads precisely where you need them with the utmost speed and safety, bringing the functionality and flexibility demanded to overcome modern warehousing challenges.
Learn more about our QuickStack Modular VRC here.
Custom High Travel Lifts for Mezzanines
Autoquip provides unique VRC designs that are able to support a wide variety of specialized mezzanine applications. Any of our standard lift models, including our multi-story lift solutions, can be customized and built to meet your specific operational requirements, which will allow you to remove any existing barriers to storage access.
Our extensive design library of hydraulic and mechanical VRC models feature a variety of weight capacities and travel heights.
Here are some examples of the innovative custom high-travel lift solutions we’ve developed:
Retail Storage Lifts
Loved by retailers and their warehouse crews, custom versions of our hydraulic VRC smoothly and effectively relocate pallets of merchandise from the warehouse floor to their designated mezzanine storage area.
Case Study: Automated VRC for AGV Rack System Retrieval and Storage.
Automotive Parts Storage
Manufacturers and suppliers who serve the automotive parts industry carry thousands upon thousands of different items, from tiny spark plugs to engines and suspension parts for a variety of car models.
Our hydraulic Freightlite VRCs, able to handle up to 3,000 pounds and travel up to 15 feet, are ideal for these and similar businesses that must stock and organize a vast variety of items. These lifts provide multi-weight material handling, contribute to convenient inventory management, and help you to take full advantage of your available storage zones.
Package Lifts
When you need to move lighter-weight cartons, crates, or boxes, an Autoquip Package Lift provides consistent high-cycle loading and unloading.
With a load capacity of 300 pounds and the ability to travel vertically to 22 feet, these versatile mechanical lifts are truly ideal for small-item transport between floors.
Maintenance Lifts
Moving heavy equipment and tools between floors can be challenging for maintenance teams. With load capacities up to 20,000 pounds, our VRCs help increase productivity by transferring toolboxes, supplies, and maintenance gear from basements to each building level.
Our high-travel lifts can be engineered to reach up to 100 feet for use in taller buildings, a true multi-story lift solution.
Autoquip’s commitment to providing high-capacity lifting solutions for maintenance and component handling is demonstrated through several successful implementations in the aerospace industry—learn more.
Autoquip: Delivering Advanced Lifting Solutions
Are you looking for ways to improve the functionality of your mezzanine system or multi-floor storage facility?
Our high-travel lifts deliver reliable access to hard-to-reach areas, helping to maximize the square footage in your facility. Adding an Autoquip VRC to your environment creates money-saving opportunities and valuable efficiencies that simultaneously increase safety and free time.
Our unique skill set leverages advanced production techniques and technologies to create durable, customized, high-travel lift solutions that could finally allow you to exceed customer expectations.
Superior quality, proven experience, and excellent customer service—Autoquip is the industry leader that stands ready to meet your high-travel lift and multi-story lift demands. For over 75 years, our specialty is helping customers solve unique challenges.
Do you have specialized application needs that require a custom lift?