Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc. Expands Steel Services in the Midwest and Adds Co-located Toll Processing Operations.Business Editors & Automotive Writers HOMEWOOD, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2001 Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc. Subsidiary, Roll & Hold Warehousing & Distribution, Breaks Ground On an Expansion in Eldridge, IA, to Provide Increased Warehousing Capacity and Processing Services Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc. broke ground today for an expansion at their Roll & Hold Warehousing & Distribution facility in Eldridge, IA. This expansion, due to open in September 2001, will more than double Roll & Hold's warehouse capacity, in addition to accommodating a co-located toll processing line owned and operated by Flat Rock Metal, Inc. "Co-locating steel warehousing and toll processing shortens the supply chain through elimination of at least one transportation link between the mill and the metals consumer," states Kent Robbins Rob·bins , Frederick Chapman 1916-2003. American microbiologist. He shared a 1954 Nobel Prize for work on the cultivation of the polio virus. , vice president, Roll & Hold. "Significant transportation benefits will accrue To increase; to augment; to come to by way of increase; to be added as an increase, profit, or damage. Acquired; falling due; made or executed; matured; occurred; received; vested; was created; was incurred. to the shipper SHIPPER. One who ships or puts goods on board of a vessel, to be carried to another place during her voyage. In general, the shipper is bound to pay for the hire of the vessel, or the freight of the goods. 1 Bouv. Inst. n. 1030. who takes advantage of moving the largest and heaviest coils possible the maximum distance by rail, then processing the material close to the consumer. This is a huge "win" for the early adopters of this rail, warehousing and processing combination." Roll & Hold's Eldridge facility will be the second facility in the Midwest where Roll & Hold and Flat Rock have joined forces to provide a full range of transportation, warehousing and metals processing at a single facility for high-end metals applications. The other facility is located in Indiana's International Port at Burns Harbor, IN. The Eldridge facility is ideally situated to accommodate the many appliance and farm implement manufacturers in the plain states that utilize smaller coil sizes in their manufacturing process. Flat Rock's 80" wide, double loop slitting slit n. A long, straight, narrow cut or opening. tr.v. slit, slit·ting, slits 1. To make a slit or slits in. 2. To cut lengthwise into strips; split. and inspection line, manufactured by Stamco Division of GenSystems, will handle 100,000 pound steel coils for Class I exposed applications, and has many unique capabilities for the inspection, slitting and processing of critical exposed materials. Roll & Hold provides warehousing and just-in-time delivery and distribution programs serving the producers and consumers of Class I metals through its national network of purpose-designed truck and rail served facilities. Roll & Hold is a subsidiary of Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc., a provider of fully integrated services In computer networking, IntServ or integrated services is an architecture that specifies the elements to guarantee quality of service (QoS) on networks. IntServ can for example be used to allow video and sound to reach the receiver without interruption. including transportation, warehousing, distribution and logistics services. www.adsinet.com Flat Rock Metal operates processing centers in Illinois Illinois, river, United States Illinois, river, 273 mi (439 km) long, formed by the confluence of the Des Plaines and Kankakee rivers, NE Ill., and flowing SW to the Mississippi at Grafton, Ill. It is an important commercial and recreational waterway. , Michigan Michigan (mĭsh`ĭgən), upper midwestern state of the United States. It consists of two peninsulas thrusting into the Great Lakes and has borders with Ohio and Indiana (S), Wisconsin (W), and the Canadian province of Ontario (N,E). , Indiana and Ohio thru its Flat Rock Metal Processing and Bar Processing Corporation business units. www.frm.com For more information contact Dawn Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. , Director - Communications and Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , Alternative Distribution Systems, Inc. (708) 922-2024, dawnt@adsinet.com |
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