Alloys opens new Brisbane distribution centre to service growing Queensland market

Alloys has opened a new distribution centre in Brisbane to service the company’s growth in Queensland.

More than 100 Queensland partners and customers joined Alloys for the opening of the new centre late last month, including the likes of Lexmark, Epson, Kyocera and Promethean.

Alloys’ CEO Paul Harman told CRN the new distribution centre provides an “eight times bump in size” from its previous Brisbane warehouse in Acacia Ridge to help service “the growing Queensland market.”

“We're really, really keen to continue investment in Queensland. This is the third facility that we've opened up in 10 years in Brisbane because we've continued to grow and our investments continue to grow.”

Harman said Alloys is "seeing significant growth in our AV business, particularly in our panel business at present in Brisbane," as well as "in our building and security technology area.”

“There's a great market for intercoms, access control and security cameras in Brisbane and so that's an area where we are seeing growth that slightly outstrips the southern states.”

Located in the Brisbane suburb of Wacol, the new distribution centre features a warehouse that will use Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) picking technology to help provide "that consistency and efficiency bump that we're looking forward to giving both our Brisbane customers and the Far North Queensland customers," Harman said.

The new facility also includes expanded showroom facilities featuring AV, print and tech products as well as meeting rooms, training rooms and kitchens.

Customers "can come into our facilities and we can turn it over completely to them," Harman said.

The new distribution centre aims to help Alloys meet "untapped potential in not just the southeast of Queensland but up in Far North Queensland,” Harman said.

"There's still a lot a new build in Queensland and so there's a lot of opportunity particularly for office fitout to take on a lot of the technology that has become more significant post COVID."

"I'm talking the huddle room technology with VC and panel, I'm talking the access control technology to get in and out of buildings, because buildings are being habituated in different ways than they were previously."

"So Queensland, with a lot of that new build is providing a lot of opportunity for that technology, and so customers that are involved in working with design and build or an AEC [Architectural Engineering and Construction firm], we're certainly finding a good connection with."