After months of planning and an exhausting few days of moving, we are excited to announce that LockNet’s warehouse has a new place to call home: 120 Capital Court.  Our shipping, production, and purchasing departments are busy settling into their new digs as I write this post.  I can all but hear the collective sigh of relief from our employees who work at the warehouse. They now have space to efficiently do their work.

At the old warehouse, walking around on busy days was an obstacle course.  Between outgoing door shipments and incoming pallets, there simply was no space.  With LockNet’s growing business, we needed to move…and quickly.

The Planning Process

We have known that this day was coming for a few years now and had our sights on a building just down the street from our old warehouse.  As luck would have it, this building was still available.  We took over the building in early May and the mad dash began.

Zach Willie, LockNet’s Chief Operating Officer, had been preparing for the move for months.  He had all the tradesmen lined up and plans drawn out for electrical, compressed air, HVAC, and racking.

Chad Miller (our CEO) and David Caldwell (IT) crawled around, wiring the building for phone and internet.  Better them than me though! Some of that crawling around involved heights, something I’m not very fond of.

Everything went as planned and the building was ready for the move to start.

The Big Move – LockNet’s Team Effort

Production shut down on Thursday and began to move their workstations.  Have you seen how many tools a door production team uses?  Trust me when I say that it was a tedious process.

On Friday, the final racking was moved and installed and large inventory was moved.  At the end of the day, Sur-Lock production and key/core production shut down and they were moved.

LockNet warehouse employees, as well as a few office employees, pitched in on Saturday for the home stretch.  As a team they moved the remaining inventory and settled everything into its new location.

The Benefits

With the move, LockNet’s warehouse gained roughly 16,000 square feet of additional floor space.  The sky is the limit when it comes to vertical space – six additional feet per rack.

All of this space means more room for inventory, improved space for staging shipments, and lots of room for a more efficient door production space.  No more playing hopscotch and ninja warrior when we have simultaneous incoming and outgoing shipments.

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I’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who made such a smooth moving process possible – it took tedious planning, lots of pre-work, and a lot of hard labor.  I think I speak for all of us when I say that it was well worth it!

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