Industries Served
Event logistics run on short windows and long days. Barriers, fencing panels, hoarding boards, signage and cased AV kit have to come off the truck, go out across site and come back again without damage, and without a crew hand-balling loose stacks. Lowe designs stillages and cages around the kit you actually own, so each unit holds a known quantity, travels as one load and moves in a single forklift movement.
Units are engineered to your equipment dimensions and finished for the environment they work in — galvanised or powder-coated where kit lives outdoors across a season. Everything is designed and manufactured in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, with UKCA marking where applicable, so a second or third batch matches the first.
How Lowe helps
Made to order
Tell us what you handle and how it moves — we'll scope a load-tested, UK-manufactured solution and quote it, usually the same working day.
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Standard containers force compromise: barriers stacked loose, hoarding board scuffed against bare steel, a unit sitting half empty because the panel pitch does not divide into it. We start from your actual equipment — panel dimensions, foot profile, weight, and how many items a crew can realistically handle in one movement — and size the stillage to a whole number of items.
That number matters more than it sounds. When a unit holds a known count, the yard picks a load by counting stillages rather than counting panels, the truck plan is fixed rather than estimated, and a shortage shows up on the loading dock instead of on site at six in the morning.
Where an inventory is mixed — barriers one week, fencing the next — we design to the largest item and add internal division or removable posts, so the same unit works across several product lines rather than sitting in a corner between shows.
Event equipment lives outdoors, gets loaded wet and often goes straight back into an open yard. Finish is a specification decision rather than a cosmetic one: galvanising for kit that spends a season outside, powder coating where units are stored under cover or colour-coded by client or department, self-colour where neither applies.
Handling is the other half of it. Forklift pockets or a base a pallet truck can take, stacking features that locate positively rather than by eye, and a design a tired crew can load correctly in the dark. If the fast way to use a unit is also the correct way, it gets used correctly.
Collapsible and stackable designs earn their keep on the return leg, where you are paying to move air. Folding units down or nesting them cuts the number of trailers coming back part-empty and takes pressure off yard space between events.
Most event operations grow their stillages by accident — a batch here, a different batch there, none of them stacking together. Standardising on a small number of engineered types gives you units that stack on each other, load to a predictable trailer plan and can be repaired from a common stock of parts.
Because every unit is built to a retained drawing, repeat batches match the originals. You can add capacity for a bigger season, or replace units damaged on tour, without ending up with a fleet that no longer nests.
Where units are lifted overhead — rigging, dock cranes, loading over a barrier line — that is a different product rather than a finish option. Certified lifting stillages are designed and tested for lifting and supplied with the relevant documentation. Standard stillages are for forklift and pallet-truck handling and should not be craned.
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Send a drawing, a sample or a photograph of the part. Our engineers size the unit around what it carries and how it is handled, then build it in Staffordshire to a specification you sign off before a single length of steel is cut.
Load-tested · UK-manufactured · certified where required
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Designed and manufactured around your components, handling equipment and floor layout — made to order or fully bespoke.
Engineered and load-tested for safe stacking, forklift handling and demanding industrial duty cycles.
UK-manufactured to recognised standards, with certification available on custom builds and repeatable weld and build quality.
Manufactured in Uttoxeter, Staffordshire — short lead times and a direct line to the people building your kit.
Questions
A steel frame built to store, transport and deploy a specific type of event equipment — crowd barriers, fencing panels, hoarding boards, signage or cased kit. The point of it is that it holds a known quantity, travels as one forklift-handled load, and protects equipment from the damage that loose stacking causes.
That depends entirely on the barrier or board you use — foot profile, panel thickness and weight all change the answer. We size units from your actual equipment so each one holds a whole number of items, and the count is confirmed on the drawing before manufacture rather than estimated.
Often, yes. Where an inventory is mixed we design to the largest item and use removable posts, internal division or adjustable features so one type covers several product lines. It is worth reviewing the whole inventory first — standardising on fewer unit types usually beats a bespoke design per item.
Not unless they were designed and tested for it. Standard stillages are built for forklift and pallet-truck handling. Where equipment is lifted overhead — rigging, dock work, loading over a barrier line — you need certified lifting stillages, which are a separate range designed for lifting and supplied with the relevant documentation.
Hot-dip galvanising is the usual choice for units that live outdoors across a season, because the coating covers welds and cut edges where damage tends to start corrosion. Powder coating suits units stored under cover, and where colour-coding by client, department or product line is useful. We will advise based on where units are stored between events, not just where they are used.
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