Mercury Marine opens new distribution centre

Mercury Marine, a division of Brunswick Corporation, is opening a new distribution centre in 2022 in Indiana to meet “record demand”.

The new 512,000 sq ft facility will be located near Indianapolis, Indiana, a strategic location that the company says will improve delivery and service to Mercury’s global customers while adding “much-needed capacity for scale, stability, and reduced logistics costs”. 

Mercury’s current distribution facility at its global headquarters in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, will be repurposed to support the company’s propulsion systems, further allowing the company to increase capacity and production capabilities.

“In order for us to continue to meet the needs of our global customers, we identified an opportunity to create a centralised distribution centre that will have an immediate impact on our customers and our business,” says Chris Drees, Mercury Marine president. “This new facility bolsters our ability to deliver products in a centralised location which will benefit all our channel partners. Our current distribution facility in Fond du Lac will be converted into additional manufacturing space, used to meet record demand for Mercury propulsion systems.”

This new distribution centre will also allow the Land ‘N’ Sea marine parts distribution facilities to expand its offering to adjacent customers.

The anticipated opening of the new distribution facility is scheduled for October 2022. 

Additionally, Mercury has announced three new expansions to its Fond du Lac campus. Mercury will make two additions to its foundry and one to its machining facility, adding 100,000 sq ft to its global headquarters. With these additions, Mercury will now have three million square feet of manufacturing in Fond du Lac. Since 2009, Mercury has now invested more than $1.7 billion in capacity and expansion growing to more than 4,000 employees in Fond du Lac.

“As demand for all our products continues to grow around the world, so does our need to grow our manufacturing, distribution, and production capabilities,” says Drees. “Expanding these facilities in Wisconsin and the opening of the new distribution centre in Indiana will immediately give us the opportunity to meet the growing needs of our global channel partners.”

Mercury provides engines, boats, services and parts for recreational, commercial and government marine applications.