Times-2 Speed Files at Salt Lake Valley Detention Center

Salt Lake Valley Detention Center needed a compact way to store its files. Offices inside a secure facility are rarely generous with floor space, and the walls are usually block, so the storage has to fit the room that already exists. The facility chose Aurora Times-2 Speed Files: rotary cabinets that hold material on both faces of a turning inner unit and close behind a locking door.

Our Salt Lake City team quoted the project in January 2016, ordered the cabinets from Aurora, received them at our own dock, delivered them inside the facility and installed them with our own crew. The completed row was photographed in early March 2016. The quote was issued under NationWide Shelving, the name our Utah business used at the time, and the project was handled by the same sales and installation team that runs Material Handling USA today.

A Times-2 cabinet is a fixed outer housing with a rotating inner unit. Shelves are loaded on both faces of that inner unit, and a person standing in one spot turns the cabinet to reach either side. When the work is done, the unit turns so the closed door faces the room and the cabinet locks. Aurora rates one unit as the filing equivalent of three lateral files, which is the capacity argument most buyers start with.

In a detention or corrections office, a few other traits matter just as much:

• Nothing swings into the room. There are no drawers to pull out, so the cabinet rotates inside its own footprint and does not block circulation space.
• Closed and locked by default. Keyed locks are standard, and the closed face shows nothing but a door.
• No floor work. Unlike mobile shelving, the cabinets are freestanding. There are no rails to anchor into a slab.

The cabinets shipped from Aurora to our Salt Lake City dock rather than straight to the facility. That choice paid off. Base assemblies arrived damaged in transit, and because the shipment was checked at our warehouse, the problem was caught before anything was carried into a secure building.

We ordered replacement base assemblies from Aurora, which shipped within about two weeks, and filed the freight claim with the carrier ourselves. The customer did not have to chase a manufacturer or a trucking company. The installation went ahead once the new bases arrived, and the finished row was in place by early March.

Secure facilities add their own steps to every delivery: escorted access, scheduled entry and limited time on site. Staging and inspecting at our dock means the crew arrives once, with parts that are known to be complete.