Local storage manufacturer Rackline has won a large contract to provide archive storage for the Natural History Museum in London.

The Newcastle-under-Lyme firm beat stiff competition to win the £60k contract to provide archive storage for the national Museum.

The installation will begin in January 2012 and Rackline will provide 300 bays of shelving to create more capacity in the Museum.

Hilary Prendaglia, Sales Manager at Rackline said: "We are working towards the brief of maximising the space available, so we are supplying the Museum with our mobile storage units and chests to store the Museum's plans.

"The area we were working in was a very unusual shape, which our storage solutions were ideal for as they maximise the capacity on any area of space available.

"We have worked for the Museum previously, providing our Multitrak mobile carriages for six floors of the building and they were delighted with the systems we installed."  

Rackline won the competitive tender via a Government Procurement Service contract. Their storage systems have already been installed in a variety of museums including London's National Maritime Museum, Dacorum Heritage Museum in Hertfordshire and the Tank Museum in Dorset.

Bob Oldfield, Contracts Manager at the Natural History Museum said: "The Museum is very pleased to be working with Rackline. We chose to go with them as they listened to our needs, offered the ideal solution to maximise capacity and more importantly in this current climate, they have provided us with a value for money service."     

During the first six months of 2011, Rackline won over £7million worth of new contracts to provide their storage solutions to large organisations such as Marks and Spencer, Somerset Heritage Centre, Great Ormond Street, Reading University and Aberdeen University.

Rackline, established in 1984, designs and manufacturers innovative storage solutions to meet the general filing and archive requirements of museums as well as libraries, universities and colleges, hospitals, accountancy and solicitor firms and large retail and commercial head offices.