Frazier Awarded Patent for Pallet Spacing System & Method
Your racking may no longer be code compliant with the introduction of updated, strict Factory Mutual (FM) Global and National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) code regulations. Frazier Industrial Company, a leading manufacturer of structural steel storage solutions, has been awarded a new Pallet Spacing System & Method patent as part of Frazier’s response to these updates. The patent will be a key value add across the semi-automated, high density rack solution, the Pallet Mole.
Updated fire codes dictate that rack systems will require ceiling sprinklers when storage depth is over 20 feet (and over 25 feet in storage height for NFPA guidelines and/or any storage height for FM Global guidelines), and pallets must maintain a 6-inch space from one another in the front-to-back direction. Otherwise without this 6-inch spacing, an in-rack sprinkler system will be required. Users are also required to maintain 6-inch spacing in vertical alignment to allow ceiling sprinklers to quickly distribute water through the product area in the