Material Handling
Material Handling Supplier in Charlotte, NC
Pallet rack, shelving, mezzanines and modular offices for Charlotte warehouses. Designed, permitted, delivered and installed.
Warehouse Equipment for Charlotte, NC
Charlotte sits on I-85 between Atlanta and Greensboro, I-77 running north and south, and the I-485 outerbelt. Air freight and rail land in the same place here, which is unusual.
We handle the whole job rather than just selling the steel. Design, permitting, material, installation and, when the time comes, relocation. Stein is a licensed general contractor, so one company carries the project from the drawing through the final inspection.
Equipment
What We Supply
Storage
Pallet Rack Systems
Selective, drive-in, push-back and cantilever. New rack in stock plus a used yard for the sizes where used makes more sense.
Pallet rack systems +
Storage
Industrial Shelving
Hand-stack and pick-module shelving for parts, cartons and small goods that never see a forklift.
Industrial shelving +
Space
Mezzanines
Adding a floor is usually cheaper than adding a building. Mezzanines carry their own permitting and egress requirements, and we handle those.
Mezzanines +
Space
Modular Offices
In-plant offices, guard shacks and QC rooms that go up without pouring foundations or moving walls.
Modular offices +
Where We Work
Where the Warehouses Are in Charlotte, NC
Most of the rack we deliver in Charlotte goes to one of three parts of town.
Steele Creek and Westinghouse Boulevard
Southwest of uptown, where I-77 meets I-485. This is our own neighborhood, so these jobs are a short drive and we know the buildings.
The airport corridor
Norfolk Southern built its Charlotte Regional Intermodal Facility on airport property, on about 200 acres between two runways. Warehouses followed the rail and the air freight. Charlotte Douglas moved roughly 205,700 tons of cargo in 2024.
The I-85 corridor northeast
Running toward University City and Concord, with newer distribution buildings along the interstate.
Permitting
Permits in Mecklenburg County
Charlotte splits this in a way that catches people from out of town. Your building permit does not come from the city. It comes from Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement, part of the county's Land Use and Environmental Services Agency, and that holds true for buildings inside Charlotte city limits.
Fire review is the city's job. The Charlotte Fire Department's Fire Marshal's Office handles it inside the city line. Cross that line into Matthews, Huntersville, Cornelius or the other towns and fire review goes to the Mecklenburg County Fire Marshal's Office instead.
Under the International Fire Code you need a permit once a building holds more than 500 square feet of high-piled combustible storage, and high-piled means the top of the load sits above 12 feet. That covers most pallet rack projects. The code itself is the same in every jurisdiction, but the forms you file and the reviewer who reads them change from one county to the next.
- Storage with the top of the load above 12 feet, whether rack, shelving or floor-stacked piles
- More than 500 square feet of high-piled storage area
- Combustible commodities, counting the carton and the wood pallet, not just the product
- A new tenant or a change of use in an existing building
We work in both offices regularly. Tell us the address and we will tell you who reviews it. Get the walkthrough before the anchors go in, while changes are still cheap. How our permitting process works
Used Equipment
We Buy and Sell Used Rack Too
Not every job needs new steel. We keep a used yard in Charlotte and sell out of it across the country, usually at a third to half off new. Kyle Austin runs that side and can tell you what is on the ground today.
It works the other way as well. If you are closing a Charlotte warehouse, relocating, or clearing out rack you no longer need, we buy it. Small quantities and large ones, and our crew does the removal.
Buy Used Rack
Beams, uprights and wire decks out of our own yard, inspected before they ship. Used pallet rack in Charlotte
Sell Us Your Rack
We buy rack in every style, and we take small and large quantities. Send Kyle the type, the sizes and a rough count and he will come back with a number. Sell us your pallet rack
Get Started
Schedule a Design Consultation
Tell us the building, the product and the ceiling height. We will come look at it and put a layout together.