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Soft Goods Inventory? With Mallard Carton Flow Rack – the Solution is in the Bag!
Carton Flow Rack for Bagged Inventory The polybag is one of the biggest trends in e-commerce today. It’s lightweight, inexpensive, and takes up less storage space than boxes. Non-fragile items of all kinds are finding their way into bags which leaves more than a few DCs with a challenge. Soft goods inventory conforms to wheels…
Counting the Reasons to Celebrate… Join Us!
Mallard Rolls Out 200th Gravity Flow Blog In 2014 we started a blog series about Mallard gravity flow products – namely our pallet flow rack, carton flow and gravity conveyor product lines. Four years and 200 blogs later we’re proud that this series has evolved into a successful and useful tool for so many in…
Customer Requested… Mallard Delivered and Then Some!
2.5” Diameter Pallet Flow Handles Heavy-Weight Plastic Pallets The customer is always right, but we also know a thing or two. So, when we were asked to provide a 2.5” full roller pallet flow option to our pallet flow rack product line, we were happy to oblige. However, we also felt the need to see…
Mallard Total Quality Management… Assures “Pinpoint” Accuracy
When you’re looking for a needle in a proverbial warehousing “haystack,” Mallard’s Total Quality Management (TQM) system can shed some much-needed light. Recently, a customer contacted us for some guidance to help them locate “missing” hardware from a gravity flow order. The actual project install took place the year before, but as is the case…
Happy Birthday America from Mallard Manufacturing
It’s America’s Birthday once again and we as a nation are 242 years young. Hometown celebrations this week will share much in common despite the distance that separates us… food, fireworks, community, reflection and freedom will be our shared focus. We are proud to be able to provide gravity flow solutions for customers from all…
Pallet Flow Provides Needed Lift to Hydraulics Manufacturer
Even a hydraulics company needs a lift sometimes and the Mallard team was happy to provide the perfect pallet flow configuration for the ride. As far as tests and applications go, this one was pretty simple… but it’s the “storage method vs gravity flow configuration” that we thought was important enough to share. As you…
Product Slotting and Carton Flow Rack: The Mallard Difference
Picking operations for order fulfillment are one of the most expensive warehousing functions and thus a critical area for close evaluation and process optimization. Did someone say, “Carton Flow Rack?” Ok, that may have been us, but seriously while carton flow rack may not be the best choice for all your hand-picked inventory, it is…
Are Craft Brews Exploding… Your Operating Costs?
Mallard Keg Flow Reins & Tames Craft Brew SKU Proliferation The craft brew headline of 2018 isn’t “SKU Proliferation” … believe it or not. In all honesty, we’ve already been living that reality for almost a decade. The real news is that Mallard has a gravity flow solution to help solve the beer distribution and…
Mallard Pallet Flow Goes Long… And Scores Big!
The future of transportation is in these pallets… whether aerospace or automotive, the Mallard team supports progress, so we were happy to accept this recent warehouse storage challenge. A global manufacturer challenged our in-house Testing Lab engineers to design a 9-deep pallet flow lane to help optimize the warehousing of this important, yet, very heavy…
Pallet Flow Rack for E-Commerce – Design the Purr-fect Solution
When your customer offers Free one-day shipping, the pressure is on to ensure that their DC is the model of efficiency. It makes sense then to use pallet flow rack as part of the material handling solution. Pallet flow is a gravity flow solution that is dependable, low-maintenance, easy to use, and can be designed…
