As well as providing raised working areas within exiting buildings for increasing production facilities, floors are readily built around larger existing production facilities; allowing operates to work easily at an elevated level.
Storage mezzanine floors are often used to increase production by incorporating shelving and racking layouts. Access to the mezzanine can be provided by goods lifts or conveyor systems. For general storage requirements it is normal and less expensive to use an existing fork lift truck to load and off load onto the mezzanine floor through a up and over pallet safety gate or sliding gate.