UPS opens new package delivery facility in Chicago 27 September 2017

UPS has opened a new package distribution facility in Lockport, IL, US, one of Chicago’s growing suburbs. The Company’s US$40.0 million dollar investment in the new building brings more than 25,363 m2 of new capacity to UPS operations serving customers in the area.

In March, UPS also completed a significant upgrade to the Addison, IL location. Together, these UPS infrastructure projects add almost 700 new jobs to support expanding customer needs in greater Chicago.

Advanced package scanning and sortation equipment installed in both facilities allow dynamic changes to be made to the flow of packages being processed, increasing flexibility for routing through the UPS network. Customers will benefit from speed and accuracy in scaling to meet daily volume fluctuations or shifting in response to weather contingencies. The new operations technology also helps power the rollout of the UPS Saturday ground delivery and pickup service that began in late April. With increasing retail fulfilment demands and residential delivery growth in the area, metropolitan Chicago has been an early market for the new service.

Today, almost 21,000 employees in Illinois provide package delivery, ground freight, air gateway operations, healthcare logistics, freight forwarding and contract logistics services. Chicago is home to the 185,810 m2 CACH (Chicago Area Consolidation Hub), the second largest package processing facility in the global UPS operations network, as well as the headquarters for Coyote Logistics, a UPS company.

Since early 2016 through August 2017, UPS has announced plans to construct eight new US facilities that will create more than 548,130 m2 of additional facility space for increasing package processing capacity. In addition to the new facilities, UPS has begun expanding and upgrading five US locations during the same period, installing advanced package scanning and sortation technology that increases processing speed, accuracy and efficiency, as well as enables package routing flexibility to meet growing customer shipping demands. These 14 new and expanded US facilities will create more than 7,250 new, good-paying full- and part-time positions when fully operational.