Third-party logistics supplier Sunland Logistics Solutions has expanded with another 313,000-square-foot distribution warehouse in Duncan, adding eight employees to accommodate an existing pharmaceutical customer.
The new facility follows two national expansions for the Upstate company, a warehouse in Ohio for an existing automotive client and another in Virginia for a chemical company out of Charleston, said Sunland Logistics CEO Arch Thomason.
“For us, really it’s an expansion for current client and to support their growing needs,” Thomason told Upstate Business Journal. “It’s a good expansion into northern Greenville … and it’s one of the larger temperature-controlled spaces in the Upstate.”
Bustling manufacturing and distribution activity in the Upstate has boosted business for Sunland, said Thomason, as well as for all kinds of supply chain and logistics firms. Sunland grew 46 percent last year, he said, and currently operates more than 2.5 million square feet and employs more than 200 people across the Southeast and the Midwest.
“The market has tightened up, and luckily we’ve seen some new spec buildings coming in,” he said. “There’s really not a lot of capacity in the Upstate for temperature-controlled space.”
Headquartered in the Upstate since 1982, Sunland Logistics works with customers in the automotive, retail, e-commerce, chemical and paper industries for warehousing and value-added services. The company changed its name from Sunland Distribution Inc. to Sunland Logistics Services Inc. in 2013, just after purchasing a 722,000-square-foot facility in Simpsonville. The facility was approved as a foreign trade zone site in 2014, which allows the company to bypass some or all customs duties and certain excise taxes.
Thomason said only half of the Duncan facility is currently in use, but says Sunland’s pharmaceutical client has the option to expand into the space as needed.
