Cardinal Health Announces New Distribution Center in Fort Worth

Cardinal Health has announced that “construction is underway on a new distribution center in Fort Worth, Texas, which will support its at-Home Solutions business, a…medical supplies provider that serves more than 5 million patients annually in the United States.”

The new distribution center will be 340,000 square feet large and will “consolidate its two existing warehouses into one larger facility, creating approximately 74,000 additional square feet of inventory capacity and retaining its current workforce.”

The new facility will be equipped with robotics and automatic technologies meant to “assist employees with picking, packing, and shipping packages with enhanced speed, safety, and efficiency.” Some of those features include “74 robots, a 1,500-foot-long automated conveyor system and four automated box-making machines that create 500 custom boxes per hour while minimizing waste. Additionally, the facility will use a leading cloud-based warehouse management system that utilizes artificial intelligence to maintain resiliency and flexibility in inventory volume management.”

The building is expected to be fully operational in the summer of 2025.