RK Logistics recently opened an 84,000-sq.-ft. temperature-controlled warehouse in Austin, Texas, designed to serve semiconductor, automotive, lithium-ion battery, and other local manufacturing operations.
This is RK’s second ISO-certified facility in Austin. The location’s supply chain management services include customized warehousing and secured storage, inventory management, order assembly and kitting, order fulfillment, and expedited, dedicated transportation, the company reported.
“Austin and the state of Texas are important markets for RK’s growth, and we expect to more than double in size here in 2025,” RK CEO Joe MacLean said in a news release.
The modern, 15-dock-door warehouse is located at 2120 Grand Avenue Parkway in Austin. According to RK, advantages the facility provides for clients include:
- Strategic location: The facility is strategically positioned minutes from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, providing customers with extended cut-off times to ensure seamless support for mission-critical next-flight-out (NFO) shipments. This prime location enhances operational efficiency, enabling enterprises to meet urgent delivery demands with speed and reliability.
- Specialized services: RK supports pilot and engineering manufacturing activities. These capabilities provide agile and responsive solutions to evolving production priorities and dynamic build changes, a particular need for semiconductor manufacturing operations. RK’s expertise ensures seamless adaptation as production needs change, enabling clients to maintain efficiency, innovation and speed to market.
- Reliable, secure product flow and on-time delivery: RK has over two decades of experience securely managing inventory and time-definite, dependable on-time delivery of semiconductor wafer shipments. Its proven operating processes and streamlined flow methods ensure effective business-to-business logistics, protection of customer-sensitive intellectual property and adherence to strict service level agreements. RK’s high-value, precision logistics drives service excellence and provides enterprise customers with operating stability and peace of mind.
“We are excited to invest in this expansion of RK’s capacity and capabilities to serve Austin’s growing footprint as a manufacturing hub for automotive, EV battery, and semiconductor production,” said James Bryant, RK chief operating officer. “We believe our 30 years of experience delivering reliable, innovative logistics solutions to manufacturing and industrial customers will be a tremendous asset supporting precise supply chain flows and reliable logistics to keep plants running efficiently.”
RK, based in California’s Silicon Valley, entered the Austin market in March 2023 with the opening of its inaugural facility, a newly constructed 200,000-sq.-ft. warehousing and distribution center. Located in the Austin suburb of Kyle, the facility has 71 dock doors and provides logistics and supply chain support for a variety of Austin manufacturing and industrial businesses.
The Kyle facility employs a team of warehouse associates, material handlers and management personnel, receiving regular deliveries of containerized cargoes landing at the Port of Houston as well as truck-delivered shipments. It primarily provides product receipt and put-away, inventory control and staging, order management and fulfillment and dedicated, expedited delivery of EV (electric vehicle) batteries, parts and other general automotive production goods and materials to local manufacturing sites.
