For over 50 years, the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) has been evolving consensus standards for industrial steel storage racks. In 2012 the industry developed its latest and most comprehensive consensus document RMI/ANSI MH16.1 - 2012. The document includes seismic design provisions and has been accepted as the default standard for the International Building Code and NFPA Building Codes. RMI has further developed the National Standard for welded wire rack decking which has been adopted as RMI MH26:2-2007. Both documents serve as baseline specifications for the R-Mark Certification Program.
Advance Storage Products | ![]() | ![]() |
Atlanta Pallet Rack | ![]() | ![]() |
Elite Storage Solutions, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Engineered Products | ![]() | ![]() |
Equipement Boni Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Estral Energy S. de R.L. de C.V. | ![]() | |
Frazier Industrial | ![]() | ![]() |
Hannibal Industries, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Husky Rack & Wire | ![]() | ![]() |
Konstant | ![]() | ![]() |
Interlake Mecalux Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Nanjing Jiangrui Storage Equipment Co.,LTD | ![]() | |
Nanjing Kingmore Logistics Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. | ![]() | ![]() |
Ningbo Xinguang Rack Co, Ltd. | ![]() | ![]() |
Pacific Bend, Inc. | ![]() | |
Rack Builders, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Rack USA | ![]() | ![]() |
Ridg-U-Rak, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Space Rak, Div. EWCO | ![]() | ![]() |
Speedrack Products Group, Ltd. | ![]() | ![]() |
Steel King Industries, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
TMax Logistics Co., Ltd. | ![]() | |
Unarco Material Handling / Kingway Material Handling | ![]() | ![]() |
United Material Handling, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
ITC Manufacturing | ![]() | ![]() |
J&L Wire Cloth LLC | ![]() | ![]() |
Nashville Wire Products, Inc. | ![]() | ![]() |
Members of RMI have voluntarily chosen to be guided by the appropriate RMI/ANSI standards. RMI members have further voluntarily agreed to a certification process administered through a panel of independent Registered Professional Engineers. The R-Mark Certification represents one leg of a 3-legged stool - the others being Consensus Standards and Conformity. Initiatives in all three areas are part of a focused strategic objective launched in the early 1990's. The purpose of this overview is to speak specifically to the R-Mark "leg". Suffice it to say that all three "legs" are critically dependent on one another. R-Mark is a registered asset of the Rack Manufacturers Institute (RMI) and is offered under license to members and non-members who are proven to meet certain requirements.
In developing consensus on a process, a number of guiding principles were followed. Process must be:
General operating characteristics of the Program include:
Information about the R-Mark Process
R-Mark Recommendations
Highlights of the Certification and Licensing process follow:
The process is voluntary and is open to all rack manufacturers. RMI encourages specifiers and users of Industrial Steel Storage Rack to consider the value of R-Mark certification when applying racking solutions.
Questions on the program can be directed to Christian Dow.