Transform Your Self-Storage Facility with a PFlow Material Lift
Want to make your self-storage facility a safer, friendlier place for your customers and staff while adding valuable rentable unit space? A PFlow material lift, also known as a vertical reciprocating conveyor (VRC), is the game-changing solution you’ve been looking for.
Whether you are repurposing a multi-story urban location or optimizing an existing structure, a PFlow VRC can make it effortless for staff and customers to move material goods between floor levels.
VRCs are reliable and rugged, lifting more weight per square inch than conventional elevators, all while having fewer code restrictions and maintenance requirements than people-moving elevators.
Unlock the true potential of your self-storage facility by reaching previously unused vertical space, creating more rentable units, and delivering a smoother, safer space access experience.
Read on to learn more about how PFlow can help do the heavy lifting for you!
Reinvent Self-Storage with VRCs
Make Moving Easier for Your Customers—And They Will Keep Coming Back
Adding a VRC to your self-storage facility can lighten the load while boosting customer satisfaction, safety, and loyalty. Here are some key benefits our sturdy, reliable lifting units offer your business:
- Cost Effective: A VRC offers an easy-to-use lifting option for a fraction of the cost of installing, permitting, and maintaining a traditional elevator, as VRCs cannot move people – only materials.
- Customer Satisfaction: Providing customers and staff with a safe and reliable way to move items between floor levels is no longer optional—it is an expected standard of service. Customers want a fast and hassle-free way to move their items to and from their storage unit.
- Safety: Carrying heavy or awkward items up and down stairs is an accident waiting to happen. Keep your customers safe and limit your business’s liability by reducing the need to lift items or move belongings via stairways.
- Optimize Your Space: Bring additional areas of your facility online by making it easier to get awkward items from the ground floor to basement areas or upper floors. You’ll add valuable rental square footage without increasing your overall footprint!
Open Doors and Add Floors
VRCs allow you to bring industrial-strength lifting capacity to your public-facing storage facility. PFlow’s safe, powerful units allow customers to move boxes, furniture, or appliances into and out of multi-level storage safely and easily.
Improve customer retention and attract new renters while controlling liability, maintenance costs, and labor overheads.
PFlow VRCs offer:
- A cost-effective option to traditional elevators
- Easy-to-use operation
- Best in class durability, reliability, and performance
- Customization to meet the specific needs of your facility
Features of Self-Storage Facility VRCs
Customization comes standard with every PFlow storage facility VRC. It may sound like a contradiction, but it’s exactly what sets us apart from our competition. Each PFlow lift is custom-built to fit the needs of your facility, ensuring a perfect fit for your unique layout and operational needs. Designed to go where other vertical lifting equipment can’t, PFlow VRCs offer a wide range of customizable features to match the demands of your facility:
- Built to do the heavy lifting – Lifts any material load from 10 lbs to 100,000 lbs with ease
- The sky is the limit – 50 feet, 150 feet, 200 feet? No problem! No matter how many floor levels you need to reach, a PFlow VRC can rise to the occasion.
- Safety First – Interlocks, locking gates, carriage enclosures, and emergency stops keep users safe at each floor level
- Ease of Use – Simple, intuitive, and customizable controls make using the VRC smooth, safe, and hassle-free
Engineered for the Real-World – PFlow VRCs are made for real-world use—where users aren’t always gentle. Designed to withstand heavy use and rough handling, they deliver dependable daily performance with maintenance.
VRC Case Studies & Resources for Self-Storage Facilities
Self-Storage Facility VRCs FAQs
All VRCs are designed with safety in mind. Our self-storage units typically include safety gates, gateinterlocks (the VRC won’t move unless the gates are properly closed and latched), keylock disable push button stations that control access (lift may require a PIN code, access card, or keypad to operate), freight-only signage (bold, easy-to-read warnings to make it clear that people cannot ride on the lift platform), and other features that help to prevent accidents during loading, unloading, and transit.
VRCs improve efficiency by helping customers deliver and retrieve belongings stored on different floor levels. Faster, easier turnarounds save both you and your customers time and effort. VRCs can also boost the amount of floor space your facility offers by improving access to basement areas or additional floors.
Every PFlow VRC is customized to fit the specific layout and requirements of your self-storage facility. Specific options include the load weight, size, and travel height of your unit, add-on safety features, and integration with pallet jacks, forklifts, or other automated equipment your facility might use.
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Trust PFlow with Your Self-Storage Facility VRC
Heavy lifting is part of the job when you run a self-storage facility. PFlow’s powerful, reliable VRCs can help lighten your load, optimize your space, and unlock new opportunities. Call us in Milwaukee at 414-352-9000 or use our Quick Contact Form.