Metal cabinets and racks, pros and cons, their features

For the manufacture of furniture, two main materials are used - wood and steel. Wooden houses and its derivatives are furnished with private houses, apartments, and metal cabinets and shelves are most often used in office and warehouse premises.

Advantages and disadvantages

The main advantages of metal furniture:

resistance to moisture differences. Outerwear for office staff may be wet due to weather conditions. It can be stored in metal cabinets without any fear of harming furniture;
resistance to temperature extremes and fire. If you have a metal cabinet, you do not need to purchase additional safes for storing documentation. Items, documents in the cabinet will not be damaged in case of fire;
resistance to heavy loads. Metal cabinets and storage racks are ideal for storing documentation. Since all folders have considerable weight, wooden shelves cannot always support it;
well tolerates shifts and transportation.

Among the disadvantages, it is worth noting the resistance to corrosion, but modern processing techniques are able to prevent such phenomena. Also, a disadvantage is not such a presentable appearance as that of wooden furniture. But modern methods, finishing and coating techniques can solve this problem.

Varieties

Among the whole variety of metal furniture, the following can be distinguished:

wardrobes for clothes - are installed in offices, warehouses, locker rooms, educational institutions;
lockers - these cabinets can be found in supermarkets. It is in them that people leave bags, bags during shopping. Metal lockers are considered more reliable than others, because it is impossible to damage the metal silently, and a sharp noise will certainly attract attention in a crowded place;
archive cabinets - designed to injure large volumes of documentation;
accounting - designed to store documentation of small volumes. These designs can be with locks, perform the functions of a safe;
file cabinets - metal racks with many compartments and shelves;
racks - can be archival, universal, cargo. Designed for storing cargo of various types.

Archival

Accounting

Rack

File cabinet

Locker

For clothes

Form and filling

Filling metal cabinets and storage racks can be very diverse. It all depends on the functionality of the furniture. It can be shelves, drawers. Doors may be absent, then shelves are most often made with sides, for the convenience of storing documentation and any other materials. There may be a lock, both on the entire cabinet, and on individual shelves or drawers.

Cases for clothes can be filled with metal baskets for shoes, which is very convenient in office rooms, locker rooms (changeable shoes do not have to be left under tables or under benches).

In its form, metal furniture can be very diverse. But most often these are rectangular structures. Dimensions depend on the functions performed. ABOUTMost often, I produce fancy furniture with a height of about two meters, the average width is approximately one meter, and the depth of a standard office cabinet is half a meter. But there are other dimensional options. As for storage racks, their sizes can be much larger. In almost any company that supplies or produces metal furniture, you can place an order for the manufacture of furniture of certain sizes.

Rules for selection and installation

In order to choose the right metal furniture, you must clearly know for what specific purposes you need furniture, what functional load it will perform.

For the storage of chemical products (detergents, disinfectants) it is better to choose galvanized shelving. Also, these designs very well tolerate high humidity. Therefore, they can be used to store products in basements or freezers.

For storage of documentation, it is worth paying attention to collapsible structures. They are usually finished with various decorative materials. Fits well in office design. For the storage of heavy loads, it is better to opt for beam structures.