Herochu Roll-Out Cassette Rack for Long Products – Honeycomb Density Without the Honeycomb Price
Built to order from $5,680. CE, EU and ISO 9001 certified.
A 20-foot bundle of stainless bar sits on your floor like a guest who refuses to leave. Forklifts detour, aisle width doubles, and the laser sits idle because the next stick is buried. The Herochu roll-out cassette rack ends the stand-off by pulling every tube, bar, or beam into a honeycomb matrix that fits inside a single truck bay. No expansion pad, no second shift, no new lease—just steel cassettes that glide on sealed bearings and present the load to an overhead crane in under thirty seconds.
Why Honeycomb Geometry Works
Traditional cantilever arms force you to leave an air gap larger than the part itself; we eliminated the arm. Each cassette is a 24-inch square tube tunnel welded to a common spine, creating a hexagonal honeycomb that carries torsion straight into the base frame. The result is 2.6 times the storage density of an open-arm system while keeping every SKU visible from the aisle. One bay—21 ft long, 10.5 ft wide, 12 ft high—swallows 250 pipes that formerly occupied 33 ft of floor. Your warehouse did not shrink; your inventory finally obeyed gravity.
Roll-Out, Not Reach-In
A 180-lb operator can extend a 5,000-lb cassette with one hand because the cam rollers are machined from 4140 steel and rated for 250,000 cycles at full load. A spring-loaded plunger locks the cassette at 100 % extension, freeing both hands for the sling. When the crane clears, a toe-kick releases the detent and the cassette coasts home on eccentric guides that tolerate ±1/8-in floor variance—no shimming, no floor grinding, no arguments with the concrete contractor.
Built for 10,000 lb Moments, Not Marketing Copy
The spine is a 6-in wide-flange I-beam stitched to 4-in cross-braces on 12-in centers. Weld beads are continuous, not skip, and magnetic-particle inspected to ASTM E709. Each cassette tongue is gusseted with 3/8-in plate so the load path never relies on fillet alone. The moment arm at full extension generates 12,500 lb-in; we rate for 20,000 lb-in because sheet mills always deliver heavier than the packing list. You can park a pickup on the rack; we tried.
Finish That Outlives the Lease
Indoor powder coat is polyester-epoxy hybrid, 3 mil face, 2 mil edge, baked at 400 °F for cross-link density that survives acetone wipes and forklift kisses. Outdoor galvanizing is triple-dip, 4 mil total, so you can store chrome-plated shafting beside the rail spur and still invoice it as first-class material. Touch-up spray ships free; replacement bearings cost $12 and thread in with a 9/16 wrench while the rack stays loaded.
Modular Like Lego, Tough Like a Tank
Bays bolt together with ¾-in Grade 8 hardware on 4-in centers so you can start with three cassettes and grow to three hundred without re-tagging inventory. Add a second spine to create a double-sided island, or bridge two racks with a transfer table for saw in-feed. If you move across town, unbolt, crate, and reinstall; the rack carries no welded footers that become scrap metal on relocation day.
Clearance That Fits Real Parts
Cassettes are 2 in, 3 in, 4 in, or 6 in ID on 2-in vertical pitch. A 0.75-in wall tube still leaves 1.5-in air gap above for the sling, so you never play Jenga with a 20-foot stick. Removable dividers let you mix 1-in bar and 6-in pipe in the same cassette without spacers walking off. Load height is stamped on every cassette lip in 1-in letters—no flashlight, no tape measure, no guessing games at 2 a.m.
Installation Without the Circus
Racks ship as flat-packed frames strapped to a steel skid that becomes the trash bin. Two men, one crane, and a 9/16-in socket assemble the first bay in 75 minutes; each additional bay averages 35 minutes. Anchor bolts, torque chart, and laser-level target are included. Concrete only needs 3,000 PSI and level within ±¼ in over 10 ft—standard warehouse slab, no pour-ups, no core drilling through rebar.
Safety That Satisfies the Inspector
Aisle-side posts wear ¼-in replaceable rubber armor rated for 5 mph impact. Each cassette has an anti-kickout that engages at 200 lb pull, preventing accidental extension when the crane jerks. Optional laser curtain stops trolley travel when any cassette is open, cutting near-miss reports to zero at three customer sites last year. OSHA 1910.176(b) clearance is maintained without tape on the floor because the rack face becomes the aisle line.
Lead Time That Respects Cash Flow
Standard powder-coat bays ship in 12 business days; galvanized in 18. We stock 1.8 million lb of wide-flange beam in Cleveland and Houston, so “out of stock” is not vocabulary. A DXF of your floor plan returns a stamped drawing, anchor schedule, and freight tariff in 24 hours—no login wall, no spam funnel.
Referral Program That Pays in Cash, Not Coupons
Introduce a second facility that purchases and we mail you a $500 check when their first bay ships. No limit, no expiration, no fine print. Many customers fund their third expansion on referrals alone.
End-of-Life Value, Not End-of-Life Loss
Steel is 61 % post-consumer, 94 % domestic melt. At end-of-life the rack commands 8–11 % of purchase price as scrap or 25 % as resale on the used-equipment market—documented in our last three auction results. Depreciation becomes an asset, not a write-off.
Send a weight list, a photo, or a napkin sketch. We will return a quote that includes freight, anchors, assembly wrench, and a bottle of touch-up paint. Stop feeding floor space to obsolete arm racks; let Herochu pull your long products into a honeycomb that finally pays rent.
