Katoen Natie has broken ground on a new advanced plastic packaging facility in South Dallas County, US.
The new facility is being developed at the 3,000-acre Prime Pointe Industrial Park, which is adjacent to Union Pacific's Dallas Intermodal Terminal (DIT).
Katoen Natie’s new facility will feature around 250,000ft² of warehouse space, and can be expanded up to 2.5MM ft² of space.
Expected to complete in the third quarter of 2018, the facility will have direct railroad access served by Union Pacific.
The facility, which will become Katoen Natie's 20th NAFTA location, will be used by producers to ship bulk railcars of plastic resin pellets to the warehouse where they will be packaged and loaded into intermodal containers.
Union Pacific's Dallas to Dock service will transport the containers to ocean ports through premium intermodal service, after a short trip to the adjacent intermodal terminal.
Union Pacific president and industrial general manager Kenny Rocker said: . "Katoen Natie‘s Dallas location aligns with container availability, a core need of our customer base. From Dallas, Union Pacific's premium intermodal services deliver to the West Coast where producers are able to export to global destinations.”
Katoen Natie president Frank Vingerhoets said: "The Dallas facility will assist our customers in diversifying their export channels to global markets.”
Katoen Natie provides logistics and distribution services to the chemical, automotive, consumer good, electronic and retail sectors. It operates facilities in Europe, the Far East, North/South America and Africa
Union Pacific Railroad is said to connect 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country by rail. Its diversified business mix is comprised of agricultural Products, automotive, chemicals, coal, industrial products and intermodal.
