Selecting the correct shelving for your needs may not appear to be a difficult task but there are many considerations that may either make you very happy with your purchase or leave you thinking you could have selected a better option. Most shelving or racking purchases will fulfil your immediate needs if you have carefully thought about them and planned accordingly. The aspect that may potentially get overlooked is that of future proofing your purchase.

Whether racking is being purchased for an industrial purpose or decorative shelving is being purchased for the home or office environment, some thought about how that environment is likely to evolve may have a large influence on your purchase. Typically, modular racking systems will provide the capacity to extend and increase your available racking over time as your storage needs increase. It is logical to buy a shelving system that can be expanded both upwards and in terms of strength to handle the heavier and fuller pallets that you now need to store.
The aesthetically designed shelf may not need to be expanded in its own right but it may need to be replicated in other rooms at a later date and to do so needs to be a style that will be readily available in the future. Racking solutions with standardised fittings ensure that you have much more opportunity to modify the utilisation of a racking system as layouts and purposes of workspaces change. New innovative storage ideas are also far more likely to be compatible with standard fittings such as slat wall.