Community Food Bank Installs “Pushback” Rack System to Increase Warehouse Capacity
The Community Food Bank at 3003 S. Country Club Road in Tucson has completed installation of a new “Pushback” pallet system that increases its dry storage capacity. The new system allows substantially more food storage in the same space as conventional racks and eliminates the need to expand the warehouse or use an outside storage facility.
The new Food Bank warehouse system includes two sections of 4-Deep “Pushback” and one section of 2-Deep “Pushback” units. In a space where previously 273 pallets could be stored, the new “Pushback” system will store 856 pallets (43 truckloads of additional storage), a 313% increase.
The “Pushback” system was purchased from Advance Storage Products of Huntington Beach, California.
“Recently our warehouse capacity has been maxed out and we have had to rent space from other facilities. But the increased capacity of the “Pushback” system should take care of our storage needs for years to come,” said Eric Hitzeman, Vice President of Operations.
The Community Food Bank distributed over 29 million pounds of food in fiscal year 2009-2010.
For further information, contact Eric Hitzeman at (520) 622-0525 x 238




