Automated Sheet & Tube Storage

Storage That Keeps Up With Your Laser

A modern fibre laser cuts faster than most shops can feed it. Sheet ends up stacked flat on the floor, edges get damaged, and someone spends half the morning digging for the right gauge. Tube lengths lean against walls. Forklift hours go to hunting rather than moving, and the machine you paid for sits idle waiting on material.

Storage is the part of the cutting cell most shops never plan. Herochu automated towers and cantilever racks get material off the floor, logged by size and weight, and delivered to the loading point when the operator needs it.

How it works

• Siemens PLC with 15" touchscreen: manual, semi-auto or full auto
• Load cells at the loading station: every pallet weighed and logged
• ±2 mm positioning, IP67 sensors
• Load by forklift or overhead crane
• Guardrails and light curtains as standard
• Siemens S7 protocol, ready to link with laser loading automation
• Core components: Siemens, Omron, Schneider/CHINT, INVT

S-Series Single Tower – Automated Sheet Storage

A PLC-controlled vertical tower that sits beside your laser. Load sheet once at the weighing station and the system logs, stores and retrieves it automatically, delivering the right material to the loading point. Three sheet sizes, each available at 3,000 kg or 5,000 kg per tier.

S-2412 · 2,400 × 1,200 mm

The smallest footprint in the range, for jobbing shops, 2412-bed lasers and tight floor space.

S-3015 · 3,000 × 1,500 mm

Built around the most common laser bed in Australian shops. Sits beside a 3015 laser and feeds it directly.

S-6020 · 6,000 × 2,000 mm

For large-format lasers, plate and high-volume shops. Ten tiers of full-size sheet in a single footprint.

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SD Multi-Row Warehouse – High-Density Sheet Storage

For shops carrying many materials and gauges. The SD-3015 stores 3,000 × 1,500 mm sheet across 4 rows and 18 layers, with automatic traverse bringing the selected sheet to the loading point.

Other sizes we can quote

Sheet from 3,000 × 1,500 and 4,000 × 2,000 up to 6,000 × 2,500 mm; from 6 tiers upward, set by your ceiling height; up to 5,000 kg per tier; single tower, double tower or multi-row, with or without automatic laser loading.

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Tube & Long-Stock Storage – Cantilever Racks

Cantilever racks for tube, bar and profile, built for 6 m and 9 m stock. Choose the drive that suits your volume and how your bay is served.

Featured racks

Drive options

Lengths, level counts and arm sizes can be built to suit your stock profile.

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Automated Tube Storage & Loading

For tube laser cells running hard. The operator selects a profile on the touchscreen, and the system lifts the right level and delivers the stock to the loading point. No forklift hunting, no lengths on the floor, and full inventory visibility by profile.

Automated Tube Store

Lift-and-shuttle storage for 6 m stock: 3,000 kg per level, levels and bays built to suit, delivering straight to the tube laser loader.

Vertical Tube Tower

A compact tower that stores bar and tube vertically and loads and unloads automatically. The most stock per square metre of floor.

Gantry Tube & Profile ASRS

For large mixed inventories: a gantry picks lengths from high-density racking and feeds saws, tube lasers and processing lines.

Every automated system is designed around your stock list, building and tube laser, then quoted from a drawing.

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