Metal Shelving Storage Solutions
Optimize Your Available Space.
No matter the type, weight, or bulk of what you need to store, there’s a metal shelving solution to fit it. Spacesaver’s metal shelving options can help optimize your available space and organize what’s most important to your bottom line.
All of our metal shelving storage systems feature an easy installation and can be transformed or expanded to fit your future needs:
- FreeSpan Shelving: Durable, customizable steel shelving with tool-free adjustment for efficient, adaptable storage.
- 4-Post and Case-Type Shelving: Flexible storage for files, boxes, supplies, and mixed materials.
- Cantilever Shelving: Open shelving commonly used for books, media, archives, and display-style access.
- Wide Span Shelving: Heavy-duty storage for bulky items, cartons, equipment, and oversized materials.
- Wire Shelving: Ventilated shelving for healthcare, food service, sterile storage, and humid environments.
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4-Post and Case-Type Shelving
An attractive and versatile storage option, our 4-post and case-type shelves are universally slotted. That means options such as adjustable shelves, file and bin dividers, and divider rods are available and easy to install or adjust. These options combine to create a flexible shelving system for stacking boxes, organizing files, and storing other materials on the same storage system.
This type of steel shelving works well for offices, archives, supply rooms, public safety facilities, education spaces, museums, corporate storage areas, and other environments that need reliable access to stored materials.
Door and Drawer Add-Ons
- Full-length recessed handle
- Magnetic door catch
- Two-point lock secures both the top and bottom of the door
- Protect contents and improve security
- Create a cleaner appearance in staff or public-facing areas
Doors fit against face of shelving and add only 1” to overall unit depth
Wire Shelving
Wire shelving is a must for any sterile environment, from healthcare facilities to food service storage. Our metal shelving features easy installation with no tools required. Finishes are available in Chrome Plus (SH), which is ideal for high visibility and dry storage areas, or Duro-Seal (PW) for high humidity storage applications such as walk in refrigerators and freezers.
Wire Accessories
- Swivel casters with lock brakes: Allow shelving to move for cleaning, reconfiguration, or flexible access.
- Donut bumpers: Help protect walls and shelving from impact.
- Panel backs and end screens: Help keep supplies contained.
- Solid galvanized shelves: Support smaller items or materials that need a flat surface.
Wide Span Shelving
Tough and versatile, Spacesaver’s RaptorRAC Wide Span Shelving is built to last. This metal shelving option provides a platform for storing a variety of heavy and bulky items. It comes in an array of standard and configured sizes, making it possible to build a custom shelving system for your specific needs. The installation of the product is quick and can be relocated easily.
Wide Span Features
- Horizontal “Z” beam design provides strength and stability to support heavy loads.
- Two upright design options (welded and knocked-down)
- Three beam options (low-profile, heavy-duty, and extra heavy-duty)
- Five decking options (solid steel, ribbed steel, particle board, flat wire, and waterfall wire) to provide maximum flexibility
- Available in all Spacesaver mobile and shelving powder coat paint color options
Large Fossils Secured on Wide Span at Chicago’s Field Museum
Bradford Systems provides durable metal shelving storage solutions that work in nearly any industry to organize files, supplies, inventory, archives, equipment, and bulky materials while making better use of available space. We worked with Chicago’s Field Museum in their Collections Resource Center (CRC), which was designed to keep up with the consistent increase of artifacts in their inventory. In the CRC’s Geology Room, large pallets of fossils were stored and protected on wide-span shelving used in conjunction with a high-density mobile storage system. Scientists could quickly access specific fossils using narrow aisle forklifts, and were able to easily transport fossils to nearby tables for study purposes.
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Shelving Overview – FAQs
Options include 4-post shelving, cantilever shelving, wide-span shelving, lateral sliding systems, and metal shelving. Each is tailored to store books, files, supplies, archives, or oversized goods.
Selection depends on item size, weight, and frequency of use: cantilever for libraries, 4-post for files, wide-span for bulky goods, lateral sliding for tight spaces, and metal for durable everyday storage.
Archival-grade steel and ventilated designs help preserve sensitive materials. Systems can be specified to meet ADA and fire/life-safety codes.
Steel shelving provides long-term durability, high weight capacity, and resistance to daily wear, making it ideal for offices, warehouses, and archives.
Yes. Shelves, dividers, drawers, and security doors are adjustable. Systems can be reconfigured or expanded as collections grow or change.
Yes. Standard metal shelving can be mounted on mobile carriages, allowing for conversion into high-density systems later.
Depending on configuration, steel units can support loads ranging from files and books to tools and bulk inventory.
Durable powder-coat finishes resist corrosion and can be customized to match office or industrial environments.
Yes. Metal shelving can be customized with accessories such as dividers, drawers, doors, locks, casters, backs, end panels, decking options, coat rods, bin dividers, and other accessories depending on the shelving system. These options can help improve organization, access, security, and storage flexibility.
Yes. Wire shelving and specialty finishes can support clean, humid, visible, or high-airflow storage areas. Common applications include healthcare supply rooms, food service storage, walk-in coolers, freezers, sterile storage areas, and other spaces where ventilation and easy access matter.