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31.5 Metre High Rack Clad Building is a SA First
The following article is about rack clad warehouses and was taken from the following website:

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The first clad rack building locally designed, engineered and manufactured is shooting up in Linbro
Park, Johannesburg and attracting considerable attention.

The Universal Storage Systems project was commissioned by UTi Pharma in conjunction with LGA
Logistics Consultants and will be for the storage of pharmaceuticals. When completed the clad rack
building, just off London Rd, will be 138m long, 45m wide and 31,5m high and it will hold more than
38 000 pallets.
Elaborating on the proudly South African project, Universal’s sales director Jan Breytenbach is quick
to emphasise that the warehouse must meet the exceptionally stringent standards set for storing
medicines.
"Our relationship with Uti Pharma dates back to the 90s when they traded as IHD, we supplied the
racking for the warehouse Limbro Park. Later we were involved with a new warehouse in
Longmeadow in 2006 and also their branches in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban. It’s been a
great relationship and over 21 years we have come to fully understand that our client has to service
the storage needs of many leading pharmaceutical companies while ensuring that patients always
get the original quality medicine they need, when and where they need it."
Elaborating on the newest structure, he explains, “All uprights and beams are made of pre-galvanised
steel and are all newly developed products designed for the clad rack system. And, just as impressive
are the project’s 'green credentials'.
Breytenbach says, working six days a week, it is a seven- month project.

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