When your existing storage facility has really reached its limits, you are left with few options: build an extension, move into a larger building, or figure out if you can reconfigure the existing facility layout to create more warehousing capacity. These days, there are no regrets at PDI Logistics―a pharmaceutical distributor and a third-party logistics provider in Valencia, Ca.―about choosing the latter option. What the company did was reconfigure its 138,000-square-foot warehoused to maximize the available cube with a very-narrow-aisle storage system―complemented by installation of a model SLT-30 very-narrow-aisle lift- truck from Horsham, Pa.-based Drexel Industries LLC, which is equipped with an EE spark-proof enclosure and a wire-guidance system to enable it it to handle products in aisles measuring no more than four-and-a-half feet in width.
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