Space is tight in Madison - the city sits on a narrow isthmus between Lakes Mendota and Monona, and the answer to running out of room usually isn't more building, it's smarter storage. Associated designs and installs pallet racking and automated storage systems that help Dane County warehouses, labs, and manufacturers fit more product into the space they already have, while keeping it safe, organized, and fast to pick. From a few bays of selective rack to a full AS/RS, we engineer the system around your product, throughput, and building.
Storage Systems We Design and Install
- Selective pallet racking - the versatile, cost-effective standard
- Drive-in and drive-through rack for high-density storage
- Push-back and pallet-flow rack for dense, FIFO/LIFO throughput
- Cantilever rack for long or bulky loads
- Automated storage and retrieval systems (AS/RS), Radioshuttle, and VLMs
- Mezzanines, pick modules, shelving, and bin storage
Engineered for Your Product and Your Building
The right racking depends on what you store, how fast it moves, and how your trucks work the aisles - get it wrong and you lose capacity, speed, or both. Associated's specialists design layouts that balance pallet positions against selectivity and throughput, factor in your forklifts' aisle and reach requirements, and handle permitting, installation, and safety from start to finish. As a single source for racking, forklifts, and dock equipment, we make sure the whole system works together.
Local Expertise
Madison's lake-locked core puts a premium on density, so for university, hospital, and state institutional warehouses we design high-density and pick-module layouts that pack more into limited footprints. Biotech and diagnostics labs often need precise, well-organized storage with vertical lift modules and selective rack for traceable, fast-access inventory, while suburban distribution growth in DeForest, Sun Prairie, and Fitchburg rewards selective and pallet-flow systems built for order picking. Either way, we match the racking to the reach trucks running your aisles.
Why Associated?
A single source for racking, forklifts, and dock equipment, with in-house design and project management and the full range from selective rack to AS/RS - serving southern Wisconsin operations since 1960.
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Service Area
Serving Madison and the surrounding Dane County area, including Sun Prairie, Fitchburg, DeForest, Windsor, Verona, and the Beltline and I-39/90/94 corridors.