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facility in Rome coming online and the
expansion at our Hurricane distribution
center, we will have nearly 6 million square
feet of warehouse space in North America
available to us,” says Randy Williams, Orgill’s
executive vice president of distribution.
“This is a testament to the growth our
customers’ operations have experienced in
recent years, and it is also a testament to
our commitment to invest in our logistics
network to keep pace with our customers’
needs.”
Including Rome and Hurricane, Orgill
currently operates eight distribution centers
throughout the United States and Canada,
with other facilities located in Tifton,
Georgia; Inwood, West Virginia; Sikeston,
Missouri; Kilgore, Texas; Post Falls, Idaho;
and London, Ontario.
Along with the addition of more than
425,000 square feet of under-roof space in
Hurricane, Orgill’s senior vice president of
logistics, Vic Price, says that they will also
be taking additional steps to modernize
the facility, including the relocation of the
shipping and receiving areas to create
better flow-through of product and the
addition of more narrow aisle racking
that allows for stocking of even greater
product volume. Construction at Hurricane
is scheduled to begin in the coming weeks
and should take 12-18 months to complete.
When finished, the Hurricane distribution
center will employ about 350 Orgill team
members.
Orgill’s Hurricane facility currently
services customers located in California,
Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming
and portions of Idaho, Nebraska and New
Mexico.
Along with the investments in its
distribution centers, Orgill continues to
look for ways to modernize its overall
logistics operations, including upgrading
and expanding its trucking fleet, according “On the safety side, we invested in state-of- anyone,” Williams says. “We now have one
to Tom Liddy, director of fleet safety and the-art dashcams for our trucks, technology of the newest and most technologically
services for Orgill. like collision avoidance, roll safety and lane advanced distribution networks serving this
“About two years ago, we made the departure systems. We have also partnered industry, and that is core to fulfilling our
commitment to upgrade our fleet and with a company to create a positioning commitments to our customers now and
partnered with Ryder for all of our power system that integrates with a customer- well into the future.”
equipment and today, about 75 percent facing app so customers can track their
of our trucks are less than two years old,” orders in real time and know when the About Orgill:
he says. “And with the increase in business trucks will be arriving at their stores.” Orgill, the industry’s fastest-growing
we have seen over the last year, just since For Orgill, making these investments hardlines distributor, was founded in 1847 and
October we have added 60 new trucks to our in logistics and infrastructure are integral is headquartered in Collierville, Tennessee. Orgill
fleet and an additional 200 trailers.” to fulfilling their mission to help their serves more than 11,000 retail hardware stores,
While the trucks themselves are new, customers be successful. home centers, professional lumber dealers and
drivers are also being given access to some “First and foremost, we are a distributor farm stores throughout the U.S. and Canada,
powerful technology to improve their of products and services, and our goal is and in over 50 countries around the world. More
efficiency and customer service, Liddy adds. to perform those functions better than
information can be found at www.orgill.com.
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