Material Handling
Material Handling Supplier in Raleigh, NC
Pallet rack, shelving, mezzanines and modular offices for Raleigh warehouses. Designed, permitted, delivered and installed.
Warehouse Equipment for Raleigh, NC
Raleigh sits where I-40 crosses the I-440 Beltline and the I-540 outer loop, with I-87 now running east toward Rocky Mount.
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 Raleigh, NC
Raleigh's own city limits hold less big-box warehouse than people expect. Most of it sits in a ring of Wake County towns.
Garner and the White Oak area
Off I-40 south of town. Amazon's fulfillment center here runs about 2.6 million square feet and employs more than 3,000 people full time.
East Wake
Knightdale, Wendell and Zebulon, along I-87 and US 64. This is the Triangle's main large-format logistics growth corridor right now.
The I-540 ring
Newer flex and distribution space following the outer loop around the north side.
Permitting
Permits in Wake County
Raleigh keeps both halves in-house. Building permits come from the City of Raleigh Planning and Development Department, and fire review comes from the Raleigh Fire Department's Office of the Fire Marshal.
The order of operations is the part worth knowing. Raleigh runs a Site Permit Review that has to be approved by every applicable department and reach final review before you can even submit a non-residential building permit plan. Fire is one of the named reviewers in that process.
Outside the city line, Wake County Permits and Inspections handles building permits for unincorporated Wake, and by contract for Knightdale, Rolesville, Wendell and Zebulon. That covers a lot of where the new warehouse space actually is.
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
Start the permit conversation at the same time as the rack order. The two waits overlap instead of stacking. 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 Raleigh 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 Raleigh
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.