Company

North American Warehousing Company (NAWC) began operating in Bedford Park, Illinois, in 1980 as a profit center of Lake River Corporation (LRC), a subsidiary of Kinark Corporation. We incorporated in March 1997 and in June 2000, NAWC Holding purchased the stock of North American Warehousing Company from Kinark Corporation.

These operations — 407,356 square feet of warehousing space — are accessed by truck, rail, inter-modal trailers, and ocean containers. Manufacturers, trading companies, and major distributors worldwide are the primary users of NAWC’s 3PL and supply chain services. We provide dedicated storage for innumerable products and items, including segregated storage of general commodities, consumer goods, flammable materials, food grade products, and temperature-sensitive goods to protect product integrity. We also offer expertise in export container loading and trans-loading to South America, Asia, Europe, Russia, and Australia.

North American Warehousing’s public and contract warehousing service is a vital link in the distribution and supply chain process that ultimately takes our customers’ products into the industrial and commercial marketplace.

We are located ten miles south-west of downtown Chicago, four miles from Midway Airport. Rail service is provided by the Belt Railway of Chicago (BRCRR), the largest short-line railroad in the country, allowing our customers the flexibility to ship via any Class I railroad to our facilities. We also provide blending, drum filling, and bagging services for dry chemical products, and we are equipped to receive products by rail and truck. These products are vital to the end manufacturing process for virtually every basic industry — paints, solvents, inks, dyes, resins, rubber, textiles, cosmetics, foods, drugs, and agriculture.

Our successful business strategy is anchored by our management’s ongoing commitment to improve service for existing customers, serve new customers, and meet the challenges of the ever-changing global business environment with innovative and flexible service offerings.

If you’re looking for a trustworthy, professional company to store, manage, and distribute your industrial products, North American Warehousing Company is the company you want.