Joliet, IL is the fastest-growing city in the Midwest and the 12th fastest growing city in the U.S. among cities of more than 100,000 people. Joliet is also the home of a bustling distribution center for a major Global 3PL. Rising labor costs and the need to increase throughput motivated this customer to seek new…read more

Things are looking up, way up, for a national health and wellness company as they expand their already sizable Midwestern distribution center to over a million square feet of optimized storage and inventory fulfillment… all with the help of the Apex team. As part of the 350,100 sq. ft. expansion to the existing 722, 320…read more

Cold-Storage Facility Opens in North East, MD with a Little Help from the Apex Warehouse Systems Team One of the things Maryland is known for is great food, so what better place to open a new state-of-the-art, cold-storage facility for a major U.S. pork processing company. Apex Warehouse Systems was pleased to be an integral…read more

Every Detail Attended to… Welcome to our latest Apex Project Spotlight! Each new build, tear-down or reconfiguration project is exciting for the Apex team. It’s where planning meets skill to make something terrific for our customers and this impressive new selective pallet rack and cantilever racking systems installation is no exception. Plus, there were very…read more

This may not be your favorite waterpark ride… but it might just be as cool! It’s a carefully engineered system of pallet flow rack, carton flow, racking components and mezzanines, integrated with both automatic and gravity conveyor plus spiral conveyor chutes. These systems are assembled together into a highly efficient, three-tiered storage and picking module.…read more

A leading national hardware cooperative recently launched a major supply chain restructuring effort which included the consolidation of several facilities and closing of one it’s smaller retailer support warehouses in the Baltimore area. The Apex install (& dismantle) team was called in to tear down the pallet rack systems and clear the warehouse. Pallet rack…read more

  The most expensive warehouse to operate is a freezer warehouse. So when freezer space is underutilized and inefficient, it’s essentially like letting money fly out the door. In today’s competitive distribution landscape… waste is not an option, which was the case for one of our international food processing customers. Thanks to a series of…read more

Performance auto parts deserve supercharged fulfillment, but that doesn’t always mean high tech and expensive.  Sometimes simple selective pallet rack is the best choice for an orderly, cost-effective and efficient fulfillment operation… especially when it is expertly designed and installed. See how fast your operation can be up and running: time-lapse video. Project Details: 112,000 sf.…read more

Apex Successfully Tackles Multiple KIVA System Decommissioning Projects Change is the nature of business, and sometimes that change means an overhaul that is too big to handle yourself.  The Apex team of licensed, national installers is experienced and well-equipped to safely dismantle all types of static, dynamic and automated storage systems like these KIVA AGV…read more

Time lapse video makes it look easy, but it took lots of planning and expert execution to get it done. The Apex installation and project management teams combined efforts to fill this waiting warehousing space with over two-hundred thousand selective pallet rack positions in under three weeks. That’s a win for our customer who badly…read more