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Case<br />
studies<br />
<strong>META</strong> QUICK ® Specialised Store Furnishings<br />
Short aisles, clear arrangement, and plenty of room for<br />
about 18,000 items<br />
Shelving<br />
Customer:<br />
The Gaßmann technical wholesale<br />
centre in Heiligenstadt offers<br />
its customers a comprehensive<br />
range of products, from work<br />
safety goods, wall & floor fixings,<br />
manual/power tools, standard<br />
parts and drive technology,<br />
through to building chemical<br />
products.<br />
Gaßmann and <strong>META</strong> worked<br />
together as partners to design<br />
the new and efficient warehouse.<br />
<strong>META</strong> shelving systems have been<br />
included in Gaßmann's permanent<br />
product range for years.<br />
Gaßmann values <strong>META</strong> as a professional<br />
partner – from the planning,<br />
production, and delivery<br />
stages through to assembly …<br />
Area sales manager Stephan Dünnebeil<br />
(right) and Gaßmann company director<br />
Ludwig Urbach planned the new<br />
warehouse together.<br />
Mission statement:<br />
Optimise the internal material flows over a surface area of<br />
1,440 square metres<br />
Short aisles, clear arrangement, and plenty of room for about<br />
18,000 items<br />
Smooth transfer from the two-tier shelving system to the display areas<br />
Rapid access by employees and customers to small parts such as screws,<br />
hand tools, fixings, and special products<br />
Solution:<br />
Two-tier <strong>META</strong> QUICK ® shelving system with 1,565 sturdy<br />
<strong>META</strong> V 150 shelves<br />
Shelf heights flexibly adjustable in 25 mm increments (giving optimal<br />
adaptation to changing sizes of goods)<br />
Eight double-entry shelving rows, each ending with a single-entry row<br />
Roofing over the aisle on the ground floor to provide additional storage<br />
space<br />
Shelf rows with pegboards on the end frames to provide sufficient room<br />
for additional products<br />
Handrails and other elements painted in the company colour (sky blue<br />
RAL 5015) to give a uniform appearance<br />
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