Grain Racks, Rice Display Racks and Wooden Grain Storage Bins
Grain is sold by weight out of an open bin, which makes this the one category where the fixture has to survive a scoop being dragged through it every day.
Five grain and rice builds, photographed in our own studio. What separates them is not size but how the grain is held and reached: an open bin a shopper scoops from, a hooded case, a stepped platform for sacks, or a wall of shelves for packaged rice.
A light timber wall unit with open shelves and no back panel, for the packaged half of the department where the goods sell themselves and the fixture stays out of the way.
Open-backed wall shelving
Open the product fileThe same open shelving over a closed base cabinet, so the slow-moving large bags live under the display instead of in the stock room.
Wall shelving over base cabinets
Open the product fileTwo timber platforms at different heights with no bins at all. Sacked rice is heavy and does not want to be lifted twice, so it is displayed on the floor of the fixture rather than in it.
Stepped platform, no bins
Open the product fileA full-length run with mesh side panels, open bins along the top and taller towers closing each end, so a rice department reads as one block rather than as a row of separate bins.
Run with mesh flanks and end towers
Open the product fileA square bin unit under a glass hood, mesh panelled below. The hood keeps the grain covered without hiding it, which is the compromise a store makes when hygiene rules stop short of sealed dispensers.
Square bin unit, glass hood
Open the product fileTwo grain builds are on record, and they differ in the one way that matters for a bulk grain fixture: what the body is made of. Sizes are drawn against your plan. Colour is a RAL or PANTONE reference held across the order, so a grain run matches the bulk bins beside it.
Tell us how much of your rice aisle is loose grain and how much is bagged. The split decides the fixture before any dimension does.
Every question below is one we would have to ask you anyway. Answering them now takes a round trip out of the quotation.
Seven things buyers ask before they order a rice aisle. If yours is not here, put it in the message box above and it gets answered with the quotation. Because this category lives or dies on the material, see Steel Shelf or Steel and Wood Shelf: Which Suits Your Store.
Neither build on record, Grain Rack-Y01 or Grain Rack-Y02, carries dimensions, so there is no size table on this page. A grain run is drawn against the aisle you have and the split between loose and bagged, and the figures come back with the quotation.
Material, and in this category that decides everything else. Grain Rack-Y01 is recorded as metal sheet with stainless board; Grain Rack-Y02 is recorded as 1.5 to 2.5 mm MDF board. Loose grain is abrasive and gets scooped daily, so it wants stainless. Bagged grain touches nothing, so board is fine and cheaper.
Air. Grain held in quantity needs some movement through the body of the fixture, and mesh gives it that without the unit becoming a set of louvres. It also makes a run that is carrying a serious tonnage of rice read as lighter than it is, which matters in a narrow aisle.
On a stepped platform, not on a shelf. A 25 kg sack is not going to be lifted to shoulder height twice, so the display puts it at or near floor level and uses a second step to lift the back row above the front one. That gives the display depth without asking anything of the staff who restock it.
They can. A hinged glass hood covers the grain without hiding it, and that is what most stores specify once the local hygiene regime asks for loose food to be covered. Tell us the rule you are working to and the bins are built to meet it rather than adapted afterwards.
Yes, and it usually should. Grain and bulk food bins generally share an aisle, and both come out of the same plant, so a single RAL or PANTONE reference on the order keeps them in one shade. A rice section in a slightly different brown from the bulk section beside it is one of the more obvious ways a fit-out looks unfinished.
In a rice display rack with the scoop contact surfaces in stainless steel board, because loose grain is abrasive and wears a timber edge through inside a season. Whether the bins can be open or must be covered is decided by your local food hygiene rule, not by us — tell us the market and we build to it.
