SGS, ISO9001 and CE Certified Steel-Plate Racks That Do More Than Stand There—They Stand Up in Court, in Audits, and in a 5-Ton Drawer Slide
Herochu | Customizable to your workshop, starting at $3,660 | CE, UE, ISO 9001 certified
In steel storage, a certificate is not wall art—it is the only thing between you, a forklift judge, and an insurance lawyer who’s having a great day. Herochu builds every drawer, beam and crank handle under the white-hot scrutiny of four separate certification bodies. The result is a rack you can hang your safety record on, literally. Below is the paperwork translated into plain English, so you know why the stickers matter and how they quietly save you money long after the invoice is paid.
CE Marking – The Passport That Lets the Rack Live in Your Workshop
CE is not a suggestion; it is a legal visa to operate inside the European Economic Area. To earn the mark we had to:
- Drop-test a fully loaded 5 t drawer 100 mm off the ground and prove the latch did not shear.
- Document that every weld beat EN ISO 3834-2 standards—X-ray films still warm, stored for 10 years.
- Run a fatigue cycle: 50,000 open/close movements at 110 % rated load—equal to 25 years of double-shift abuse.
What it means for you: If a health-and-safety inspector walks in tomorrow, you can point at the CE plate riveted to the frame and watch him move on to the next bay. No extra risk assessment, no third-party engineering sign-off, no “please stop work while we investigate.” Production keeps humming and your blood pressure stays put.
ISO 9001 – The Quality Management System That Never Sleeps
Most factories treat ISO 9001 like a wedding ring—wear it once a year when the auditor visits. We keep the system on a live feed. Every cut, weld, drill and powder-coat step is logged with a serial number that can be traced back to the mill heat number of the steel coil. If a defect appears in five years, we can pull up:
- Which operator welded it (his ticket number and eye-test expiry).
- What batch of welding wire was used (certificate of deposit still attached).
- The temperature and humidity in the booth the day it was painted (28 °C, 62 % RH, in case you wondered).
What it means for you: Consistency. Drawer slide #1 and drawer slide #1,000 roll out with the same friction coefficient, the same side-to-side play, the same handle height. Your maintenance team doesn’t have to keep a box of “lucky” shims to make new parts fit old racks.
SGS Certification – The Outside Referee Who Hates Nice Stories
SGS is the world’s largest inspection company, and they are paid to be unpopular. Their engineers flew in unannounced, cut a 150 mm square out of a main beam, sent it to a metallurgical lab and confirmed:
- Yield strength: 355 N/mm² (actual 378)
- Elongation: 26 % (spec asked for 22)
- Impact at –20 °C: 45 J (spec 34 J)
Then they loaded a single drawer until it buckled—collapse happened at 8.3 t, 66 % above the 5 t label. The certificate is numbered SGS-CN20-PLT-0782; you can download the PDF faster than you can say “due-diligence folder.”
What it means for you: When your customer’s insurance surveyor asks for third-party proof that the rack won’t fold like a lawn chair, you forward the SGS report and close the conversation. Bid won, contract signed, no sleepless nights.
ANSI/AISC Compliance – The Silent Requirement No One Mentures Until Too Late
North American projects quietly demand compliance with ANSI/AISC 360-16. We ran the numbers anyway:
- Deflection limit: L/240 under live load—our 3 m beam deflects 9 mm at 5 t, passes at 11 mm.
- Safety factor: 2.0 minimum—our limit state ratio is 2.34.
- Bolt tension: A325-N, verified with a Skidmore-Wilhelm calibrator to 28 kips per bolt.
What it means for you: The rack drops straight into a U.S. facility without structural acrobatics. No field-engineered knee braces, no “we’ll weld a gusset later,” no change-order surprises that eat your margin.
How Certificates Translate to Cash
- Insurance rebates: One Belgian client received a 9 % premium reduction after submitting CE and SGS documents—€4,700 per year, every year.
- Faster permitting: A New York installer skipped the city’s peer-review cycle (six weeks) because AISC compliance was pre-documented—project finished ahead of schedule, penalty clauses avoided.
- Resale value: A five-year-old Herochu rack with valid certs sold for 62 % of original cost; uncertified used racks in the same auction averaged 34 %. The difference paid half the upgrade to a larger model.
The Paper Trail Lives Online
Scan the QR code welded to every frame and you land on a password-free page: mill test reports, weld maps, load curves, inspection photos, even the paint-batch VOC certificate. Share the link with auditors, customers, or your mother-in-law—transparency is cheaper than repeat site visits.
Certificates Are Not Birthdays—They Need Renewing
We re-audit ISO 9001 every 12 months, CE every 24 months, and SGS whenever we change a weld procedure. Updated documents auto-push to the QR cloud, so the rack you bought in 2021 carries the 2024 certificate today. No email requests, no “we’ll send it next week,” no silences in front of the inspector.
Bottom Line
A storage rack without papers is just metal leaning against a wall. A Herochu rack with CE, ISO 9001, SGS and ANSI backing is a risk-management device that happens to hold steel. It lets you sleep through audits, win bigger jobs, and sell the asset later for real money instead of scrap rate.
Starting at $3,660—less than the legal fee for one workplace incident—you buy the only part of the warehouse that can testify in your favour. Print the certificates, frame them if you like, but first scan the QR below and watch the paperwork pay for itself.
Herochu—certified today, still certified when you retire.
