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Quality Principles

ISO 9001 ISO 14001

Mecalux has obtained the ISO 9001 quality manage-ment certificate, which is applied to the design, production, installation and after-sales service of metalshelving. The ISO 9001 certificate has been awarded to the production centres in Spain, Poland, Mexico andArgentina for all static, mobile, and dynamic metalshelving, light-load shelving, mezzanines, lockers for changing rooms and partitioning. Mecalux is environmentally aware and conscious ofthe effect the activity carried out in their work centresmay have on the environment. The application of the Environmental Management System to all activitiesguarantees that all organisational, production and technical tasks which affect the environment areplanned, managed and controlled in such a way as tomeet the requisites established in ISO standard 14001.

CALCULATION STANDARDS

thods in order to determine the degree of abutment; thisdata is required for thestrength calculations. The requirements for thecalculations and tests towhich the materials used,the beams, the manufacture and the assembly are sub-jected to provide greatersafety margins for installations, the goods deposited onthem and, above all, the personnel working in the ware-houses. For the required cantilever racking calculations, thecalculation standards NBE-EA- 95, FEM 10.2.2 and RALRG614 have been observed.Among the guidelines given in these standards, thefollowing are worth particular mention: Columns: maximum movement at the top end of H/200 Arm: maximum deflection at outer end: L/100.Safety coefficients of 1.5 in both variable and perma-nent actions. The joints between arms and columns have been pre- viously tested using authorised laboratories and me-
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