UPS Breaks Ground On New Salt Lake City Regional Operations Facility
February 23 2017 - 9:30AM
UPS (NYSE:UPS) will build a new regional operations hub in Salt
Lake City that will be among the largest processing facilities in
its global package network. The $275 million project joins other
significant capital investments announced over the past 24 months
focused on new construction combined with modernization and
expansion of top tier UPS® hubs in the U.S. to address planned
growth.
When completed in late 2018, the new 840,000 square foot
facility will process 69,000 packages per hour as a complement to
the existing 200,000 square foot operations in town.
“This new regional hub is one of our strategic initiatives to
continue to build the long-term future of UPS,” said Mark Wallace,
UPS senior vice president of global engineering and sustainability.
“Utah is the crossroads to serving the Western U.S., and the
state-of-the-art automation technology being deployed will improve
performance, increase capacity and create additional flexibility to
handle the non-stop growth of e-commerce business in the
region.”
More than 1,500 jobs will be aided by new technology and
automation that increase the accuracy of data collection for
reliability and processing flexibility as packages route through
the complex system of conveyors and advance across a maze of belts.
Two automated processing areas will focus on smaller-sized
packages, typical of today’s e-commerce purchases.
Nearly 160 acres were assembled with convenient interstate and
airport access to support UPS growth across the mountain west, much
of it from both commercial and residential e-commerce. The property
will include onsite fueling to accommodate both diesel and natural
gas alternative fueled vehicles.
Ken Cherry, president of the UPS Desert Mountain district that
includes Utah operations, noted UPS appreciation for support from
city and state officials. “UPS customers benefit from new
efficiencies and capacity, and we sustain and grow jobs in the area
for a positive economic impact.”
UPS currently employs more than 3,500 workers across Utah in
package, heavy freight and contract logistics operations. The
company’s footprint includes 24 operating facilities and 46 The UPS
Store® locations as independently-owned small businesses that are
part of a franchise network.
About UPS
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including transporting packages and
freight; facilitating international trade, and deploying advanced
technology to more efficiently manage the world of business.
Headquartered in Atlanta, UPS serves more than 220 countries and
territories worldwide. The company can be found on the web
at ups.com and its corporate blog can be found
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Kim Krebs
404-828-4404
kkrebs@ups.com
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