Museum storage systems are designed to protect, organize, and preserve valuable collections while maximizing available space. These systems combine high-density storage, protective materials, and efficient access methods to ensure artifacts remain safe while still accessible for research, conservation, and exhibition preparation.

Modern museum storage focuses on three priorities: preservation, organization, and space efficiency. Properly designed systems reduce handling damage, protect items from environmental factors, and make collection management far more efficient.

Every museum collection is unique. Storage systems must be designed around the size, weight, fragility, and conservation requirements of the artifacts being preserved. Custom museum storage solutions allow institutions to maximize space, improve collection management, and maintain the highest preservation standards.

With properly designed museum storage systems, institutions can protect priceless collections while improving organization, accessibility, and long-term conservation. History survives because someone stored it properly.

MUSEUM STORAGE SYSTEMS

High Density Storage Systems

High-density storage systems eliminate unused aisle space and compacting storage into a much smaller footprint. Shelving units move on floor tracks, allowing staff to open only the aisle they need while the rest of the system stays compacted. This approach dramatically increases storage capacity while keeping collections organized and protected.

High density storage is ideal for boxed artifacts, archival materials, specimen containers, and collection bins. It improves inventory control, protects fragile items from unnecessary handling, and allows museums to store growing collections without constantly expanding their facility. Efficient, organized, and surprisingly simple.

Art Racks

Art rack storage systems provide a safe and efficient way for museums and galleries to store large paintings, framed artwork, and panels. These systems use pull-out metal racks that allow artwork to hang vertically, keeping each piece separated and protected from contact or stacking damage. Staff can easily slide racks out to access individual works without excessive handling, which helps preserve delicate frames, canvases, and surfaces.

Art rack storage also maximizes wall space and improves organization, allowing institutions to store large collections while maintaining clear visibility and inventory control. It turns what could be a cramped storage room full of fragile masterpieces into an orderly system where artwork stays protected and accessible.

Cabinet Storage

Museum cabinet storage provides secure, enclosed protection for delicate artifacts, historical objects, and archival materials. These cabinets are designed to shield collections from dust, light exposure, and environmental contaminants that can cause long-term damage.

Built with durable powder-coated steel and archival-safe interiors, museum cabinets create a stable storage environment for items such as textiles, documents, fossils, and small artifacts. Adjustable shelves and drawers allow museums to organize collections efficiently while minimizing unnecessary handling. The result is controlled, organized storage that preserves fragile pieces while still allowing staff to access and manage the collection without turning the process into a nerve-wracking exercise in accidental damage.

Aerospace storage systems must be stored securely, tracked accurately, and retrieved fast. There is no room for clutter, guesswork, or wasted space when tolerances are measured in microns and delays cost millions.

They will help you better manage your space, save on storage costs and maximize your day-to-day operations. As a result, you will maximize your response time and increase the effectiveness of your teams in the field.

Designed by experts you can count on, our mobile and static high-density racking and shelving systems can keep your operations safe, compliant and organized, all while increasing productivity, speed and performance. See how far we can lead you.

AEROSPACE STORAGE SYSTEMS

High Density Storage Systems

High-density storage systems for aerospace are engineered to maximize space while maintaining absolute precision and control. These systems use mobile shelving, vertical storage, and modular configurations to increase storage capacity without expanding the facility footprint.

Designed to support strict regulatory compliance, they provide secure, organized storage for high-value aircraft components, tools, and materials. Clear access, controlled movement, and durable construction reduce handling errors, protect sensitive parts, and improve workflow efficiency. In an industry where accuracy and speed are critical, high-density storage delivers more capacity without sacrificing safety or performance.

Vertical Carousels & Lift Modules

Vertical Lift Modules and Vertical Carousels provide secure, high-density storage designed for precision-driven aerospace environments. These automated systems store aircraft parts, tools, and materials vertically, delivering items directly to the operator to reduce travel time and handling errors. Integrated inventory controls improve traceability, support regulatory compliance, and protect high-value components through enclosed, access-controlled designs.

By maximizing ceiling height and minimizing floor space, vertical carousels and lift modules increase storage capacity while improving accuracy, ergonomics, and overall operational efficiency in aerospace manufacturing and MRO facilities.

Modular Drawer Storage

Aerospace Modular drawer storage provides precise, organized storage for small parts, tools, and critical components that require protection and fast access. Heavy-duty drawers with adjustable dividers keep items separated, visible, and secure, supporting strict inventory control and traceability requirements.

These systems reduce handling errors, prevent part damage, and streamline workflows by keeping everything in its designated place. Scalable and reconfigurable, modular drawer storage adapts to changing aerospace production and maintenance needs while maximizing space efficiency and operational accuracy.

Material Handling is the movement, protection, storage and control of materials & products throughout manufacturing, warehousing & distribution centers.

Material Handling Storage Systems are built to move, store, and control inventory with less wasted space and fewer wasted steps. They help optimize the flow of materials through your warehouse reducing wasted space & increasing profitability. Choosing the right type of storage system will depend on the physical size and weight of the items to be stored as well as the frequency of use. Designing the storage system’s configuration also depends on the items’ quantities and characteristics, as well as the equipment needed to move them to and from storage.

Shelving with flow racks, bin boxes, totes, modular drawers, high-density mobile systems & automated systems like vertical carousels/lifts all increase productivity in warehouses. Add more storage space by installing shelving mezzanines for multi-level storage benefits. Well-designed systems reduce manual labor, improve workflow, and protect materials from damage or loss. The result is higher throughput, better accuracy, and a storage operation that actually keeps up with demand instead of fighting it.

We specialize in designing warehouse systems that will increase warehouse efficiency and maximize productivity.

To get started creating a custom storage solution for your business, contact our experts today!

High Density Storage Systems

With High Density Mobile Storage Systems, getting the most out of your space is a key consideration. By mounting shelving units on movable carriages, this system eliminates the need for multiple aisles.

Retain your capital investment and allow flexible growing strategy with our upgradable high-density multi-tier mobile grow racks system. Our vertical growing solutions will provide for a more organized facility that will increase workflow, production, and profits.

You can utilize your existing shelving or storage cabinets with the High Density System or select from a wide range of storage options.

Vertical / Horizontal Carousels & Lift Modules 

Vertical Storage Systems allows 60% or more storage capacity to be accommodated on minimal floor space by making use of the available room height.

These storage systems bring the requested item to the retrieval point at the touch of a button in just a few seconds. This means no distances to walk or ladders to climb when looking for parts or returning them after use.

Vertical Lift Modules (VLMs) maximize storage space and streamline the retrieval process with a sophisticated system.

We design the carrier interior to accommodate the most varied of tasks within production systems and warehouse requirements. Both shelves and mechanical parts are designed to match the size and weight of the storage material. It is this flexibility which makes these systems so economical.

Shelving

No matter what specific requirements your warehouse demands, we have a shelving solution for you:

Shelving Accessories

When everything in your warehouse has a place, you are primed for efficient, cost-effective performance. For everything that doesn’t require special storage, we offer these simple accessories:

Auto storage systems keep parts, tools, tires, and equipment organized in fast-moving service and manufacturing environments. They use heavy-duty shelving, drawer systems, mobile carts, and high-density storage to maximize space while keeping critical items easy to reach. Proper layouts reduce wasted motion, speed up repairs, and improve inventory accuracy. Durable materials handle oils, fluids, and constant use without falling apart.

Inventory control to reduce cost and loss is achieved through automated automotive storage systems that track parts in real time and limit unnecessary handling. This automation improves accuracy, reduces shrinkage, and ensures critical components are available when needed without overstocking.

Our auto storage solutions are designed for parts departments, service departments, and all other automotive storage needs.

Choose from a vast variety of automotive storage solutions from small parts storage to large equipment storage. We help our clients expand their parts and service storage while streamlining operations and increasing productivity.

AUTO STORAGE SYSTEMS

High Density Storage Systems

High-density storage systems help the automotive industry store more parts, tools, and materials in less space without slowing operations. Mobile shelving, compact racks, and vertical solutions reduce aisle waste while keeping inventory accessible and organized. This matters in dealerships, service centers, parts distribution, and manufacturing, where space is expensive, and downtime is not tolerated.

Better density improves inventory control, shortens pick times, and supports faster repairs and production flow. The outcome is simple: more capacity, better efficiency, and fewer square feet wasted on empty air.

Vertical Carousels & Lift Modules

Vertical Lift Modules and Vertical Carousels give the auto industry a smarter way to store parts without wasting floor space or technician time.

These systems use vertical height to store thousands of SKUs in a compact footprint, automatically delivering the right part to the operator. That cuts walking, searching, and the daily scavenger hunt nobody asked for. Integrated software improves inventory accuracy and reduces picking errors, which matters when downtime costs real money.

The payoff is faster service, better control, and more space for actual work instead of endless shelving.

Tire Storage

A growing number of garages, vehicle dealers, tire shops, and warehouses need to equip themselves with an organized, high-density mobile tire storage system that makes stocking & access easier, all while reducing storage space.

An easily expandable solution is also a key concern, to store more SKUs and accommodate business growth due to the demand to store seasonal tires. Since proper maintenance of tires in a well-controlled environment is just as important when off a vehicle as it is on one, we have the customizable automotive storage solutions – to show them the very best care and ensure they don’t wear prematurely.

Modular Drawer Storage

Modular Drawer Systems are the ideal storage solution for small items.  Small parts are secured, organized and stored using modular drawer systems. Modular drawers are available in cabinets (fixed or mobile) and also in shelving integrated with storage shelves.

Store 50% or more in the same space. Combining Modular Drawers with your shelving makes it possible to store 50% more small parts or media in the same space or the same amount in half the space. Why? Because up to two-thirds of the items found in a typical storage installation could be more efficiently stored in drawers.

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.

Industrial Mobile Storage Systems

A powered mobile racking pallet system that enables you to lower production costs, streamline workflow and improve inventory management by consolidating the organization of your materials and reconfiguring your floor space. We can even re-use your existing racks on these amazing rolling storage systems.

Structural Pallet Rack

The most flexible and extensively used pallet rack in the material handling industry. We offer a wide variety of styles, sizes and gauges to meet most capacity and seismic requirements. Manufactured from heavy-duty hot rolled structural steel to withstand the most rigorous of applications. Available in various sizes and capacities to meet stringent requirements.

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.

Wire Shelving

Wire Shelving Systems are available in stationary and mobile, freestanding or wall mount, dry and wet environments, 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 customized units 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.

With our meter-width shelving we can get more capacity with less waste of shelf space. Give us a call and we will give you capacities as well with all designs.

Industrial Clip Shelving

Industrial Clip Shelving is the best 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.

HI-BAY Shelving System

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

Stable, durable & flexible, our HI-BAY shelving system can be designed to reach up to 35 feet in height and improve your workflow as well as your productivity.

Mobile Shelving Systems

High Density Mobile Storage 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. This compact nature allows for a dramatic increase in storage capacity within the same footprint, making it ideal for spaces with limited square footage. 

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.

Mobile shelving systems can be easily reconfigured to accommodate different items and changing storage needs, making them a flexible solution for dynamic environments. 

Fixed Shelving Systems

Fixed Shelving Systems offer a wide variety of storage, whether you are storing file folders, archive boxes, bin boxes for parts, modular drawers, tool & dies, and many other applications.

Shelving is comprised of starter and adder units that are configured using standard widths, depths and heights. Your room dimensions and storage requirements will dictate how much shelving is needed to fulfill your needs.

Fixed shelving is a simple and reliable storage solution, requiring minimal maintenance and offering a stable platform for storing items in a single location. Fixed shelving is also generally more affordable than mobile shelving, particularly for smaller storage needs or where space is not a major constraint. 

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!