Herochu HC-B6020-66 | The Ultimate Storage Solution for 6×2 m Metal Plates
Heavy-duty, safe, space-optimized racking — CE / UE / ISO 9001 — from $5,199 ex-works
Six metres of hot-rolled steel does not bend the moment you look at it—but it will bow, ripple, or crack if you lean it against a wall for the weekend. One hair-line kink and a £400 plate becomes a £400 off-cut. Herochu’s HC-B series turns that liability into a numbered, pull-out drawer that can be located in under twenty seconds, loaded or unloaded without a second operator, and audited by your ERP before the kettle boils.
Built for the plate that breaks ordinary racks
The HC-B6020-66 starts life as a single 8 mm laser-cut S355 sidewall, not a welded box-section ladder. Sidewalls are brake-pressed into a 180 mm deep “omega” profile that carries six tonnes per drawer while keeping deflection below 1/300 span—half the Eurocode limit. Each drawer rides on four sealed cam-follower rollers rated 1.3 t apiece and induction-hardened rails that laugh at grit. The result: a 6 m × 2 m × 20 mm plate weighing just under two tonnes glides out with 22 kg pull force, no crane, no suction cups, no hernia.
Drawer movement that respects your crane time
Integrated pull-out means the drawer becomes a temporary table; the leading edge stops 300 mm inside the aisle so an overhead vacuum lifter or magnetic beam can pick the sheet without entering the rack footprint. Optional 24 V DC powered assist adds 20 mm/s traverse at the press of a pendant—handy when the operator is also running the laser. Limit switches cut power at full extension, while a sprung detent prevents coast-back if someone bumps the control.
Space you forgot you owned
Traditional A-frames need a 4 m aisle front and back; the HC-B needs only the width of the drawer face plus 800 mm for human access. In a 30 m bay you gain eight extra laser stations or 210 m² of additional floor space—enough to pay the lease differential in most Midlands estates. Height is modular: start with five drawers plus roof, add more bays upward when the new fibre laser arrives. Uprights are punched on 50 mm centres so drawer pitch can be changed overnight; today you store 20 mm mild-steel, tomorrow 5 mm aluminium with foam separators.
Safety that satisfies insurers, not just auditors
- Anti-tip spine: a 6 mm laser-cut diaphragm ties every drawer rail into a shear wall, eliminating lateral whip under crane acceleration.
- Double-pawl safety: forged steel pin rated 5 t shear, visible safety-red, removable only when the drawer is empty.
- Earth bonding: 16 mm copper busbar factory-welded to every upright; stainless and aluminium sheets stay free of stray-current pitting.
- Photoelectric presence bar: optional across the drawer mouth; if an ankle breaks the beam the DC motor reverses 100 mm—no light curtain, no PLC, just plug-and-play.
Size range—no MOQ on custom
| Model | Plate size (mm) | Load / drawer | External footprint (mm) | Drawer pitch (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC-B3015-63 | 3000 × 1500 | 3 t | 3505 × 2000 × 2280 | ≤ 220 |
| HC-B4015-63 | 4000 × 1500 | 3 t | 4505 × 2000 × 2280 | ≤ 220 |
| HC-B4020-65 | 4000 × 2000 | 5 t | 4505 × 2500 × 2280 | ≤ 220 |
| HC-B6020-66 | 6000 × 2000 | 6 t | 6505 × 2500 × 2280 | ≤ 220 |
Need 2500 × 1200 titanium sheets at 2 t each? We’ll build HC-B2512-42 with 150 mm pitch and nylon glides to prevent galling. Every variant still ships with the same laser-cut accuracy and pre-assembled frames.
Customisation without the consultancy invoice
Tell us three numbers: maximum length, maximum weight, and how many different alloys you segregate by colour. Within 24 h you receive a DXF nest of your floor, a 3-D STEP file ready to drop into SolidWorks, and a spreadsheet that calculates centre of gravity for every drawer. Want RFID? We embed antennas in the side plates; your existing handheld reader logs heat number, remnant size, and approved nesting program as the sheet leaves the rack. Need seismic calculations for a California site? We ship base plates engineered for 0.48 g and provide the PE stamp for permit submittal.
Installation that respects the production calendar
Frames arrive upright, pre-torqued on welded jigs, wrapped in recyclable PET film. Two millwrights, one 19 mm torque wrench, and your overhead crane can erect 24 m of rack between Saturday lunch and Sunday supper. No hot work, no fire watch, no 2 a.m. concrete coring. If floor time costs more than labour, choose our “night-shift install” crew: we work 18:00-06:00, remove packaging, photograph every bolt at 420 Nm, and email the album before your first shift arrives.
ROI you can explain to the finance director
Assume 200 t of 6 × 2 m plate in inventory at £650 per tonne and a conservative 2 % scrap rate from double-handling. That’s £2,600 walking to the skip every year. Add 15 lifts per day, three minutes saved per lift, at £75 per crane hour: another £8,438 in labour. A six-drawer HC-B6020-66 costs £5,199 ex-works; payback is 4.7 months—before you count higher laser utilisation, reduced overtime, and the marketing value of showing auditors a “world-class” material store.
Sustainability that fits in a bullet point
Steel is 97 % recycled content, but the real green win is damage prevention. Every plate that avoids the scrap bin saves 1.8 t of CO₂ versus remelt. Prevent 10 t of scrap per year and you erase the emissions of four family cars—without installing a single solar panel.
What’s in the crate?
- Powder-coated frames and pre-aligned drawer rails
- Forged safety pins and embossed aluminium load plaques
- 60 mm PE depth pads to centre the plate in the drawer
- M24 anchor bolts and epoxy cartridges for cracked concrete
- QR code linking to a 52-second video of single-operator sheet retrieval
Next step—see it move
Scan the code on herochu.com and watch a 15 mm HR plate glide out, load onto a waiting laser shuttle, and register as “issued” in the ERP—total elapsed time 19 s. Then book a 15-min Teams slot; we’ll drop a 3-D STEP model of your exact layout into your inbox while we’re still talking.
Stop using floor space like it’s free and start treating every 6 × 2 m sheet like it’s already a finished part. Herochu HC-B6020-66: protect the plate, protect the profit, from $5,199 today.
