Storage for turnkey projects is the First Storage speciality

Premises extended to include warehouse component
KEVIN MAYHEW
JUST A year since it was established in Durban, First Storage Concepts has extended its premises in Maxmead, Pinetown to include a warehouse, showroom and office/boardroom component - and it has landed major contracts. Using its own capacity to provide mezzanine facilities, company head Andrew Bailey extended the open warehouse at ground level and today all his managerial and sales requirements are at mezzanine level under the same roof. “At least we can show what we can do when people come to see us. But we are prouder of our achievements outside of our own facilities,” he says. Recently First Storage KZN completed a contract for Italian multinational Parmalat at its River Horse Valley production plant in Durban North. It called for the provision of cold room pallet racking that had to be galvanised hot dipped with heavy duty frames and beams with a capacity for 2000 pallet locations. Additional systems included a mezzanine floor, office shelving and retail shelving for their factory shop. A few racking companies have tried to import racking from China and Brazil with difficulty. “At the end of the day it is the customer who suffers with inferior products and crazy delivery promises. In one instance a company spent three months in empty premises before its racking was supplied, costing it money and severe inconvenience. In the end it had to purchase additional racking to cater for its immediate needs,” he told FTW. First Storage, which has branches in Johannesburg and Cape Town, specialises in the survey and design, supply and installation of storage for large turnkey projects and smaller day-to-day basic applications. It extends its product range into administrative storage needs of the office environment and also offers galvanised equipment to suit the Durban climate.