New millwork DC designed for service
As published in Building Products Digest, August 2001

Glen Oak Lumber & Milling has designed every facet of its new distribution center near Atlanta, Georgia, to serve customers’ needs.

The Wisconsin-based national manufacturer of lumber and millwork products added the 22,000-sq. ft. DC to facilitate distribution of interior trim products in the Southeastern United States. The clear span facility with over 22' clear-height was designed to house loads of Glen Oak’s Prime Poplar® boards and mouldings, solid oak and maple S4S boards, and engineered veneer board products. The Glen Oak DC also cross-docks products for other select manufacturers lacking their own localized distribution centers.

Developed by distribution manager David Warford, Glen Oak’s newest facility was initially conceived to support deliveries to Home Depot stores and warehouses in the retailer’s Mid-South Region. Glen Oak supplies Home Depot with a full range of board programs and hardwood flooring in this and other markets. Additionally, the Glen Oak DC supplies independent dealers and architectural millwork houses with high-quality board and moulding products.

"Dealers receiving product from Glen Oak’s Atlanta DC get just-in-time delivery of elite product, mill-direct," David Warford explains. "We eliminate middlemen, help keep costs down, and the product remains nice and neat from mill to store shelf."

The DC provides area dealers and retailers in a 250-mile radius of Atlanta with greater access to the volume of raw and paint-primed Prime Poplar® products manufactured in Glen Oak’s Somerset, Kentucky facilities. The recently expanded Somerset mills feature raised deck production and an eight-head moulder capable of producing S4S boards with a very fine finish, at a rate of up to 500 feet-per-minute.

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