Mechanical vs. Powered Mobile Storage

Our mobile storage systems can transform any storage space into an organized and efficient operation hub. But should you invest in a mechanical-assist or powered mobile storage system when push comes to shove? Here are some things to consider:

What will I be storing?

Don’t forget to consider the growth potential behind installing a mobile system in the first place.

Mobile storage can help facilities expand their capabilities, reach new markets, and offer services they couldn’t before. What may today need only a mechanical system might evolve into something that demands the extra industrial lifting power of an electrical one.

How often are people accessing the system?

Again, both our mechanical-assist and powered mobile storage systems are intuitive and safe to use regularly. If, however, you’re looking for ways to maximize productivity, you might enjoy the added functionality of our ePulse remote monitoring software, an optional add-on for our powered systems.

If you’re still on the fence about which mobile storage system is right for your facility, contact us now! They’ll ask detailed questions about your unique goals and provide renderings of your ideal mobile storage system.

MECHANICAL MOBILE STORAGE SYSTEMS

Every organization has unique storage needs that evolve over time. They need storage systems that can grow and adapt as they do. With Mechanical Assist, you can be sure your system can handle whatever you’ve got. Available with both mechanical and electrical mechanisms, Montel’s signature high-density movable storage system gives you the flexibility to customize your shelving while optimizing your capacity.

Mechanical Assist Mobile Shelving Systems give you the flexibility to customize your shelving while optimizing your capacity. Whatever your industry, and whatever you need to find space for, Mechanical Assist Mobile Shelving Systems will maximize ROI on mobile shelving systems.

POWERED MOBILE STORAGE SYSTEMS

With high-density powered mobile storage systems, getting the most out of your space is a key consideration—but guaranteeing safety is also a must. SafeAisle will put your mind at ease on both counts. Its LED Guard Technology and other measures are aimed at providing the utmost in storage security.

While the revolutionary LED Guard Technology raises the bar for high-density powered mobile storage system safety, Powered Mobile Systems also gives you the benefits of Montel’s Mechanical Assist Mobile Systems: i.e., much more intelligent use of your storage area than you can get from regular filing and stationary shelving systems.

Storage Systems – Safety Features

Our mobile storage systems offer your organization the flexibility to customize your high-density storage systems to keep up with your unique needs. Easily access and mobilize your items with its unique mechanism, enabling you to move the system effortlessly. Designed to provide innovative storage and filing solutions for modern workspace environments, our storage systems – safety features add a new dimension to storage solution safety features to not only offer enhanced standards in safety, but also reliability, user-friendliness, and productivity.

The High Density Mobile Storage System concept is to create collapsible aisles with carriages that roll from side to side in your space, minimizing the amount of aisle space required with traditional fixed storage shelving. There are 3 ways to operate mobile shelving systems and create access aisles: manually with a fixed handle, with a mechanical assistance 3-spoke ergonomic handle or electrically with the push of a button. With a turn of a handle (mechanical assistance), a push of a button (electric) or a gentle push (manual), a high density mobile aisle movable storage system will greatly increase your storage density & reduce the footprint of your storage.

We know how safety is a chief concern for your business. Protecting employees from accidents in the workplace is not only the right thing to do morally, but it’s one of the most cost-effective commitments you can make. So, when integrating new technology into your organization, built-in safety mechanisms should be priority No. 1.

Storage Systems – Safety Features

Storage systems designed to cut costs and add value focus on using space with precision instead of simply adding more of it.

Facilities often pay for unused square footage without realizing it, especially when equipment, inventory, or records spread across fixed shelving or poorly planned layouts. High-density solutions like mobile shelving reduce this waste by eliminating empty aisle space and compacting storage into a smaller footprint. This approach frees up valuable floor area that can be turned into productive workspace, revenue-generating operations, or deferred leasing costs, depending on the facility’s priorities.

These systems also extend value by reducing the ongoing expenses tied to storage. Better organization leads to faster retrieval, fewer damaged items, and less labor spent searching for materials. Optional security features preserve high-value assets and help avoid replacement or compliance costs. Scalable add-ons ensure the system can grow as needs change, preventing premature replacement and lowering long-term ownership expenses.

By combining space efficiency with performance, modern storage systems deliver returns that reach beyond simple square-foot savings. They create room for growth without expanding a facility, improve workflow, and protect critical assets. The result is a practical investment that controls costs today and supports operational demands tomorrow.

Contact us now, and our team will show how our storage systems are designed to cut costs and add value, and discover how a Vital Valt System can maximize your space and efficiency.

STORAGE SYSTEMS DESIGNED TO CUT COST AND ADD VALUE

HERE’S HOW…

• Conventional storage systems require space-wasting fixed aisles.

• In most cases a mobile storage systems save up to 50% of your floor space.

• 100% greater storage capacity within the original floor space, eliminating the need for a costly expansion or the construction of a new facility.

• Reclaim space otherwise occupied by aisles that more often than not go unused.

• Mobile Shelving Systems can either shrink the overall storage footprint to allow for greater on-site operational freedom or effectively double a company’s storage capacity without physically expanding.

Types of Shelving

SmartShelf® – Hybrid 4-Post Shelving

The hybrid four-post shelving system permits both full-depth & back-to-back shelving at once. This is great for efficiently storing both larger & smaller items within the same unit. This unique patented boltless shelving concept provides two alternatives:

1. SmartShelf® Shelving System with hooks requiring no tools for shelf adjustment – load capacity of up to 300 lbs. per shelf

2. SmartShelf® Shelving System with shelf support & reinforcements – load capacity of up to 500 lbs. per shelf.

L & T Shelving

L & T Shelving gets its name from its unique construction, allowing endless expansion. Add sections to an existing installation by using “L” uprights and finish with “T” uprights as common center posts.

L & T Shelving Systems adjusts to keep up with changes in your organization’s storage & record-keeping requirements. With a unique interlocking keyhole slot design, sway bars, nuts & bolts are eliminated for obstacle-free access to your stored items.

Wide Span Shelving

Wide Span Shelving includes four standard components with many other options available, shelving uprights, shelving beams, shelf supports and shelves.

Double rivet design and keyhole slots form a rigid framework. Combine heavy gauge steel posts, shelf supports and angle beams and you have a shelving system that easily stands up to any industrial application.

Modular Drawer Shelving

When integrating Modular Drawer Systems with other shelving the combination allows for drawers in a comfort zone and shelves above or below.

Modular Drawer shelving systems are available in fixed and mobile shelving solutions. Combining Modular Drawers with your shelving & racking solutions makes it possible to store 50% more small parts or media in the same space or the same amount in half the space. Add security doors for extra defense.

Wire Shelving

Wire Shelving Systems are available in stationary and mobile, freestanding or wall mount, dry and wet environments, cold rooms, heavy duty back-of-house and visually appealing front end displays.

A variety of materials and finishes coupled with nearly a hundred specialized accessories allows these types of shelving to be customized to fit everyday needs and ensure greater efficiencies.

Archive Box Shelving

Archive Box Shelving stores critical records in both off site and on site storage locations for access to historical records.

Office workers, copiers & email, are producing over one million paper documents every minute in the United States alone. With information remaining critical, historical records need to be stored in the most effective and space efficient way possible.

Industrial Clip Shelving

Industrial Clip Shelving is another choice for storing heavy, bulky items in factories or warehouses. Uprights are pre-welded for fast assembly and load capacities up to 10,000 pounds per upright.

These high performance shelves are available in eighteen different sizes, either 20 or 22 gauge steel, and can handle loads of up to 1,000 lbs. per shelf. Shelves attach with compression clips to any of three upright styles, making assembly & reconfiguration easy.

Cantilever Shelving

Aetnastak® Cantilever Shelving System is designed to adhere to your future storage requirements. It will easily lengthen, shorten, relocate or attach new & existing units – without the complications of added parts.

While Aetnastak® itself is designed as stationary shelving, it can be mounted on one of our mobile systems to get more out of your storage space. Library Shelving at its best.

Cabinet-Style

With our Cabinet-Style Shelving, you can optimize space utilization and maximize storage capacity. This shelving & racking solution has the flexibility to mount onto mobile carriages, opening up further storage possibilities.

It is designed to be configured and reconfigured easily & efficiently without any tools & has interchangeable accessories that can be added such as drawers & shelves.

Hybria

Hybria 4-Post Shelving allows enhanced filing & storage capacity, stylish features & distinctive functionality designed to suit a wide variety of storage applications.

Featuring our unique 4-post hybrid system, this shelving product combines the sleek appeal of our Aetnastak® shelving – designed to manage books of all shapes and sizes, with the practical efficiency of SmartShelf® shelving, capable of handling a broad array of storage objects.

Hybria Curve

Hybria Curve was designed to foster collaborative library & office spaces that encourage meeting & staff work areas.

Available in single or double face shelving units, Hybria Curve expands the concept of library shelving mobility by supporting dynamic, multi-functional library spaces that easily transition as new needs arise.

HI-BAY Shelving System

Our HI-BAY Shelving System redefines space and cost efficiency to use on-site space for more valuable & profitable functions.

Mounted on mobile carriages, Hi-BAY Shelving will improve your workflow as well as your productivity. Stable, durable & flexible, our shelving system can be designed to reach up to 35 feet in height.

BULK&ROLL  –  FEATURES

• Rails: Made of aluminum bars up to 144” long and secured to the floor with concrete screws. Levelness of floor to be 1/2” maximum variation within 10’.
• Wheels: Made of a proprietary glass-filled nylon that is resistant to water and most chemical solvents. They have good abrasion and compression resistance and they won’t flat spot. They have an operating temperature of -45° to +350° Fahrenheit.
• Bearings: All wheel bearings are stainless steel ball bearings.
• Wheel Shafts: All shafts are made of stainless steel.
• Wheel Channels: Made of steel and are powder coated. Formed to be easy to clean. Capacity of 2,400lbs per section.
• No Side Members: Wheel channels are linked at their center to create a free space for the workers shoes on both sides of the mobile.
• Drive Tube: Tubular drive shafts are made of 1.315” (33.4mm) outside diameter by 1.045” (26.5mm) inside diameter powder coated steel tubing. Each end is sealed.
• Handles: Are made of durable glass-filled nylon and have a push-button aisle locking mechanism.
• Chain Mechanisms: Chains are confined to hide mechanical hazards.
• Hardware: All hardware is made of stainless steel.
• Racking: 4D Bolted Light-duty racking is made of steel and powder coated.

BULK&ROLL  –  BENEFITS

• Designed to enhance efficiency and productivity by optimizing your storage.
• Prevent costs due to the need to buy, build or rent additional space for storage.
• A safe investment that yields high returns.
• An eco-friendly solution, since it contributes to a more sustainable workspace by reducing your warehouse’s energy consumption and environmental impact.
• Designed to perform in a seismic zone – adding safety to the area.

STORAGE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS…

• Golf Bags
• Archives
• Plants, Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs
• Weapon Storage
• Specimens & Artifacts
• Records & Evidence
• Sporting Equipment
• Video Tapes, Film Cans & Media Equipment
• Props

• Luggage
• Medical Documents
• Tools & Parts
• Tires & Heavy Automotive Equipment
• Rugs & Fabrics
• IT Equipment
• Shoes & Clothing
• Bicycles
• and much, much more!

Maximize ROI on Rolling Shelving Systems by utilizing all available space, increasing storage capacity and free up room for production or other uses. These systems save up to 50% of your floor space, in most cases, and accommodate growth for other uses while increasing revenue.

An investment in the right mobile storage is never a sunk cost. The best mobile storage solutions will not only make your money back in a flash. They will also empower your operations, support value-added opportunities, and prevent you from wasting money elsewhere.

High Density Mobile Shelving Systems concept is to create collapsible aisles with carriages that roll from side to side in your space, minimizing the amount of aisle space required with traditional fixed storage shelving. Maximize ROI on Rolling Shelving Systems with 3 different ways to operate mobile shelving systems and create access aisles, manually with a fixed handle, with a mechanical assistance 3 spoke ergonomic handle or electrically with the push of a button. With a turn of a handle (mechanical-assistance), a push of a button (electric) or a gentle push (manual), a high density mobile aisle movable storage system will greatly increase your storage density & reduce the footprint of your storage.

Contact us now and our team can calculate your ROI on Rolling Shelving Systems and discover how a Vital Valt System can maximize your space and space efficiency.

MAXIMIZE ROI ON ROLLING SHELVING SYSTEMS  

HERE’S HOW…

• Conventional storage systems require space-wasting fixed aisles.

• In most cases a mobile storage systems save up to 50% of your floor space.

• 100% greater storage capacity within the original floor space, eliminating the need for a costly expansion or the construction of a new facility.

• Reclaim space otherwise occupied by aisles that more often than not go unused.

• Mobile Shelving Systems can either shrink the overall storage footprint to allow for greater on-site operational freedom or effectively double a company’s storage capacity without physically expanding.

MECHANICAL ROLLING SHELVING SYSTEMS  –  FEATURES

• The smoothest operating system in the industry due to spherically designed double flanged load wheels which reduce friction.

• Large selection safety and security devices and features, such as automatic locking mechanism & controlled acceleration & deceleration, as well as off-site monitoring & infrared sensors.

• Aluminum sub-rail designed for use in a corrosive concrete environment.

• Designed to perform in a seismic zone.

• Electrical systems always operational even during power failures.

STORAGE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS…

• Archives, Files & Office Supplies
• Plants, Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs
• Weapon Storage
• Specimens & Artifacts
• Records & Evidence
• Sporting Equipment
• Video Tapes, Film Cans & Media Equipment
• Props

• Medical Documents
• Tools & Parts
• Tires & Heavy Automotive Equipment
• Rugs & Fabrics
• IT Equipment
• Shoes & Clothing
• Bicycles
• and much, much more!

MECHANICAL MOBILE STORAGE SYSTEMS  –  FEATURES

• The smoothest operating system in the industry due to spherically designed double flanged load wheels which reduce friction.

• Large selection safety and security devices and features, such as automatic locking mechanism & controlled acceleration & deceleration, as well as off-site monitoring & infrared sensors.

• Aluminum sub-rail designed for use in a corrosive concrete environment.

• Designed to perform in a seismic zone.

• Electrical systems always operational even during power failures.

STORAGE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS…

• Archives, Files & Office Supplies
• Plants, Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs
• Weapon Storage
• Specimens & Artifacts
• Records & Evidence
• Sporting Equipment
• Video Tapes, Film Cans & Media Equipment
• Props

• Medical Documents
• Tools & Parts
• Tires & Heavy Automotive Equipment
• Rugs & Fabrics
• IT Equipment
• Shoes & Clothing
• Bicycles
• and much, much more!

Maximize ROI on Mobile Shelving Systems

By utilizing all available space, increasing storage capacity and free up room for production or other uses. These systems save up to 50% of your floor space, in most cases, and accommodate growth for other uses while increasing revenue.

An investment in the right mobile storage is never a sunk cost. The best mobile storage solutions will not only make your money back in a flash. They will also empower your operations, support value-added opportunities, and prevent you from wasting money elsewhere.

High Density Mobile Shelving Systems concept is to create collapsible aisles with carriages that roll from side to side in your space, minimizing the amount of aisle space required with traditional fixed storage shelving. Maximize ROI on Mobile Shelving Systems with 3 different ways to operate mobile shelving systems and create access aisles, manually with a fixed handle, with a mechanical assistance 3 spoke ergonomic handle or electrically with the push of a button. With a turn of a handle (mechanical-assistance), a push of a button (electric) or a gentle push (manual), a high density mobile aisle movable storage system will greatly increase your storage density & reduce the footprint of your storage.

Contact us now and our team can calculate your ROI on Mobile Shelving Systems and discover how a Vital Valt System can maximize your space and space efficiency.

MAXIMIZE ROI ON MOBILE SHELVING SYSTEMS  

HERE’S HOW…

• Conventional storage systems require space-wasting fixed aisles.

• In most cases a mobile storage systems save up to 50% of your floor space.

• 100% greater storage capacity within the original floor space, eliminating the need for a costly expansion or the construction of a new facility.

• Reclaim space otherwise occupied by aisles that more often than not go unused.

• Mobile Shelving Systems can either shrink the overall storage footprint to allow for greater on-site operational freedom or effectively double a company’s storage capacity without physically expanding.

MECHANICAL ASSIST MOBILE SHELVING SYSTEMS  –  FEATURES

• The smoothest operating system in the industry due to spherically designed double flanged load wheels which reduce friction.

• Large selection safety and security devices and features, such as automatic locking mechanism & controlled acceleration & deceleration, as well as off-site monitoring & infrared sensors.

• Aluminum sub-rail designed for use in a corrosive concrete environment.

• Designed to perform in a seismic zone.

• Electrical systems always operational even during power failures.

STORAGE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS…

• Archives, Files & Office Supplies
• Plants, Flowers, Vegetables & Herbs
• Weapon Storage
• Specimens & Artifacts
• Records & Evidence
• Sporting Equipment
• Video Tapes, Film Cans & Media Equipment
• Props

• Medical Documents
• Tools & Parts
• Tires & Heavy Automotive Equipment
• Rugs & Fabrics
• IT Equipment
• Shoes & Clothing
• Bicycles
• and much, much more!