Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc. is expanding its custom engineering design services to meet the growing demand for development. The company has added a new building on its current property in Essex, MA.

All of the pallet drop safety gates manufactured by Mezzanine Safeti-Gates come in standard single-wide and double-wide sizes. Additionally, the gates can be manufactured in stainless steel or powder-coated steel and finished in any color. Custom engineering can be obtained for standard designs with uncommon pallet drop area sizes or for completely new safety system designs.

“With advances in automation, we are seeing a greater need for custom-engineered safety gate designs,” said Chris Conway, vice president, of engineering at Mezzanine Safeti-Gates, Inc. “We are getting more requests to design pallet drop gates that not only protect employees but also the equipment being used within the facility. In addition, companies are getting very creative in using their current facility space as the applications shift, so many times gates need to be designed for unique spaces.”

Some of the unique custom-engineered pallet drop safety gates created recently by the company include:

• TCA safety gate design with product containment netting on both the ledge and rear gates, as well as the two sides; the customer needed to keep material completely inside the pallet drop area while ensuring employees have no access to the ledge at any time.
• Roly safety gate design that opens and closes with the lift within a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC) that protects robots from falling into the shaft as materials move through levels.
• Roly safety gate design for an automated parking garage

All custom-designed safety gates are thoroughly tested to ensure they fully comply with OSHA’s Walking-Working Surface Fall Protection regulations as well as ANSI fall protection standards. Used in thousands of locations throughout the world, pallet drop safety gate systems offered by Mezzanine Safeti-Gates can be equipped with power, remote operation, radio frequency sensors, and photo eyes.