Retrofitting

Barpro Storage can make STORAX Mobile bases in Cape Town workshop

Initially the Barpro workshop was set up to make spares for existing Storax systems as clients couldn’t wait for replacement  fabrications to be sourced from Europe.  This is important as a significant percentage of local  Storax systems have been operating for over 10 years.  In emergencies, fabrications can be made up, painted and despatched within 48 hours of order placement. The workshop now also makes smaller Storax systems and supplies additional bases to clients who have rails installed in their freezer room or warehouse floors.  Additional bases are installed in the cold by Barpro technicians, suitably equipped with DELF Coldwear suits, and are made to STORAX specifications. At current exchange rates, locally made Storax systems can be competitive with imported ones. Lead times are generally halved.  Barpro Storage also holds rail stocks in Cape Town.

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Price vs. Value

“There is hardly anything in the world that someone cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price alone are that person’s lawful prey” – These words have been widely used in recent decades, and are usually attributed to nineteenth century thinker John Ruskin. (although there is no evidence to suggest he ever said it). An expanded version goes on to say: “It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little. When you pay too much, you lose a little money – that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot – it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run, and if you do that you would have had enough to pay for something better.” This basic rule should be common sense, but surprisingly often isn’t.  Mankind is at heart a race of bargain hunters.  We shop around in hopes of paying less, and usually finish up getting less.  Purveyors of cheap goods and services bend over backwards to avoid the terminology ‘cheap’, since the obvious connotation is ‘nasty’.  So they say ‘lower price’, or ‘inexpensive’ . . . but what they mean is ‘cheaper’.  And what you mostly get is less value. How does ‘cheap’ relate to value? Usually negatively. In economic terms value is the monetary worth of something, and ‘worth’ in turn can be measured in many ways.  A product or service that well performs the function for which it was designed, reliably and demonstrably long-term, will always contain more worth, or value, than that which is designed from the outset to cost less – but probably not perform so well, or last so long. Nowhere is the foregoing more true than in the case of mobile racking. Barpro SA prides itself in providing genuine value-for-money with its offering, and after more than twenty years and well over 200 STORAX systems in South Africa alone – most of which are still functioning as well as the day they were commissioned  – Barpro SA has an enviable and unequalled track record of designing and installing durable systems, and boasts a multitude of satisfied customers. If someone claims the ability to provide equivalent systems , but cheaper – beware and re-read the above.   Remember the rule of thumb is that “you get what you pay for”.

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Storax mobiles in retrofit freezer – Joburg

We finished this mobile racking project project last week and squeezed in as many pallets as possible. Ceiling was angled at the sides so some pallets were smaller than others on one level. We put cantilevers at the front and back so as to provide an escape route (rear cantilever) and to increase capacity (front cantilever).  Aisle lights only come on in the open aisles.

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