Our Facilities

Providing customized warehousing and distribution solutions since 1906.

Specialized Warehousing

Since 1906, one or more of Faure Brothers Corporation’s independent subsidiary facilities has been providing quality distribution and warehouse management services customized to client requirements. Throughout our history, we have expanded to accommodate customer growth and changing business demands.

Today, we have three specialized independent subsidiary companies serving a variety of industries and storage requirements.

Chemical & Industrial Warehousing

Gateway Warehouse

Calumet City, Illinois

Specializes in hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals with NFPA-30 temperature-controlled flammable storage, hot rooms, heated, cooled, and ambient storage, sprinkler systems, explosion-proof lighting, eight-inch dikes, vapor sensors, fused-link fire doors, computerized SARA Title III reporting, Certificate of Analysis control, and inventory tracking with lot, batch, and mixed lot control.

Gateway opened in 1966 as a 25,000 square foot facility and has grown to approximately 240,000 square feet.

Illiana Transit Warehouse

Hammond, Indiana

Three warehouse buildings specializing in hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals, industrial products, and general merchandise. The facilities provide NFPA-30 temperature-controlled and ambient flammable storage, along with heated and air-conditioned warehouse space, Certificate of Analysis control, and inventory tracking with lot, batch, and mixed lot control.

The Hammond campus totals nearly 240,000 square feet.

Food & Pharmaceutical Warehousing

Great Lakes Warehouse

Calumet City, Illinois & Hammond, Indiana

Food-grade warehousing with air-conditioned, heated, and dry storage. AIB International certifies the operations and buildings with a “SUPERIOR” rating. All buildings are fully sprinklered, protected by central station alarm systems, fenced and gated, and supported by inventory control with lot, batch, and mixed lot tracking. Employees are trained in GMP storage and sanitation control.

Great Lakes originated in Hammond, Indiana in 1906 and now operates facilities in both Hammond and Calumet City, including buildings added in 1999 and 2000.

Today

Faure Brothers’ three warehouse campuses currently cover approximately 840,000 square feet.

We also work with clients who want to develop build-to-suit facilities and customized operations. All warehouses operate with GMP storage and sanitation control, dry or wet sprinkler systems, 24-hour security, inventory control with lot, batch, and mixed lot tracking, and fully trained employees.

Our Warehouse Management System, Cadre’s Accuplus, provides efficient document preparation, accurate inventory management, radio frequency communications, EDI services, reporting capabilities, future systems flexibility, and customer access to receiving, shipping, and inventory information through LogiView. The system is upgraded as necessary to meet customer and internal needs.

Our Commitment

We are more than just a group of warehouses. Since our inception in 1906, our companies have been dedicated to providing high-quality outsourced logistics services and information.

Our success is the result of our commitment to clients and their customers.