Punch Deck ® Product History

• Material Handling market seeks rack deck with open area for fire
safety compliance, and as an alternate to wire deck.

• Design was initially for ESFR (Early Supression Fast Response)
applications.

• 1998 - DACS begins Research & Development effort.

• Initial design with flat holes unsuccessful.

• Stiffening flanges were added after prototype testing.

• Patent applied for.

• Late 2001 - production of Punch Deck® begins in
Sparrows Point, MD.

• First major installation: 4,000 shelf levels for an archive storage
facility in NY State.

• US Patent # 6,401,944 received.

• NFPA 13-2002 prohibits solid shelves without under shelf
sprinkler heads.