Gordon
Food Service and Tippmann Group have built
a strong relationship over the years, so when
the time came for them to build a large distribution
center in the Chicago area, they came back
to Tippmann for the design and construction
of their new facility.
The
selected location was Kenosha, Wisconsin,
just north of the Illinois/Wisconsin border
near Chicago. GFS needed a highly automated
hybrid distribution center capable of case
selection, sortation, accumulation & direct
to truck order fulfillment.
The
facility includes multiple levels of case
transfer conveyor (more than six miles of
conveyor throughout the facility), so there
were some unique circumstances involving structural
loads, heat loads, power requirements and
clearances that needed to be addressed during
the engineering and design of the facility.
Tippmann
Group coordinated these engineering efforts
with GFS and FKI Logistics, resulting in a
580,000 square foot distribution facility.
The project is one of five facilities Tippmann
Group has built for GFS in recent years.
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