Design Journal, an international trade publication for interior designers, architects and facility managers, is the proud sponsor of the ADEX awards. More than 1,500 products were entered in this year’s competition. Entries were judged by an anonymous panel of professionals representing various fields in the design industry.
“We are honored to receive this ADEX Award that recognizes the product design for Montel’s Mobilex SmartTrack powered mobile system,” mentioned Jerome Doucet, Vice President Sales & Marketing at Montel. “In developing Montel’s Mobilex SmartTrack, not only did we succeed in designing an aesthetical high-density powered mobile storage system, we came through with innovating a product providing increased storage capacity and space effectiveness for today’s workspace environments.”
Released as a prototype during the NeoCon World's Trade Fair in June 2003 in Chicago, the Mobilex SmartTrack was rewarded by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in November 2004. Granted for a term of 20 years, the patent was approved under the description “Ground embedded wire tracks for a shelving system having mobile shelf units”.
The Mobilex SmartTrack operates with Montel’s high-density powered mobile systems. Concealing the power wiring in the floor track, the Mobilex SmartTrack eliminates dangling scissor-arms or pantographs between mobile units. As a result, an impressive 16.6% space capacity is created with the addition of a 7 th shelf on Montel’s innovative SmartShelf 4-Post hybrid shelving system. Compared to the scissor arms or pantographs conventional powered systems, Montel’s end-users have the freedom to create aisles of various widths. |
