3PL Kammac takes Burton shed

By Liza Helps, Property Editor Logistics Matters

Kammac took a 10 year lease with a break at year 7  at a rent close to the guide of £8.25 per ft2 on the facility which boasts 12.5m eaves, 10 dock and four level access doors, a 50m service yard and 21 HGV parking spaces. It has 9 EV charging spaces and 86 car parking spaces. It has been built to achieve a BREEAM Excellent and EPC A rating.

The facility has already been able to win several new Grade A clients allowing the 3PL to plan for a second facility to be opened by mid-2024.

Known by Kammac as  Burton 101, the site is expected to process and also despatch over 500,000 e-fulfilment orders and receive and despatch over 167,200 pallets over the first 12 months of opening. 

It will create over 100 jobs in the local Burton area in the first 12 months. These jobs will be across Warehousing, Transport, operations, ecommerce and added value services.

The company has ambitious plans to employ circa 1,500 team members by mid-2024 across its expanding business operating out of no less than 7.2 million ft2 of warehousing by the end of January 2025.

As a business Kammac will both receive and despatch over 1,250,000 pallets a year from 2024 and will have the ability to store over 400,000 pallets before December 2024. B

It has said it intends to pick and despatch over 1.8 million case picks per annum no later than June 2024.

The 50 acre scheme has been developed by Equation Properties in conjunction with Nurton Developments and has been forward sold to Cabot Properties.

Joint agents are Rushton Hickman JLL and Cushman & Wakefield.