Short answer
In Morocco, racking is chosen first on the load per level and the clear height of the building, then on the truck that will serve the aisles; everything else follows from those. INDURA engineers, supplies, installs and maintains the Gökdoğan ranges, from light shelving to heavy pallet racking, cantilever, mezzanines and mobile archive units.
What the word racking actually covers
Racking covers very different structures: a workshop shelf loaded by hand, a pallet rack served by a reach truck, a cantilever carrying six-metre tubes, a mezzanine that doubles the usable floor of a warehouse. They do not share the same steel, the same calculation method or the same cost. In Moroccan practice, enquiries almost always arrive with a floor area and a building height; yet it is the nature of the goods and the way they are handled that fix the family of racking, and then the range within that family.
Load, height, truck: the three figures that decide
Racking is a load-bearing structure. The load per level and the total load per bay determine the upright section and the type of beam. The clear height of the building, measured under the sprinklers or the roof structure and reduced by a safety margin, sets how many levels can be used. The truck then imposes the aisle width and therefore the density that can actually be reached: a counterbalance truck needs 3.2 to 3.6 m, a reach truck 2.6 to 2.9 m, a three-way truck 1.6 to 1.9 m. Changing the truck changes the layout, and the other way round. Until those three figures are fixed, two quotations cannot be compared.
EN 15512, EN 15635 and the load notice
There is no Moroccan standard specific to racking. Clients, insurers and the auditors of international groups operating in Morocco refer to the European standards: EN 15512 for the structural design of adjustable pallet racking, EN 15620 for manufacturing tolerances, EN 15629 for project specification and EN 15635 for use and maintenance. In practice, every bay must carry a load notice visible from the aisle, stating the maximum load per level and per bay, the height of the first level, the level spacing, the manufacturer and the installer. EN 15635 recommends a weekly visual check in-house and an annual inspection by a competent person.
What is different on a Moroccan project
Most racking installed in Morocco is imported. The real lead time therefore adds up the study and quotation, manufacturing, transport and customs clearance, then installation on site, and transport is the step most often underestimated. Deliveries into a free zone, at Tanger Med or Tanger Free Zone, follow a separate regime that has to be planned from the order. On the building side, the condition of the slab, the real clear height and the position of the sprinklers are checked on site before any layout: a survey avoids rework that costs more than the study itself.