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Lam Research opens its largest US warehouse

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Lam Research inaugurated its largest US warehouse on 28 September (the source does not state the year) in Livermore, California, consolidating all of its California logistics operations under one roof. According to a company blog post, the new logistics hub covers more than 470,000 square feet (roughly 43,700 square metres) and will serve Lam's high-volume manufacturing plant in Livermore as well as product development at the company's labs at its headquarters in nearby Fremont. Its automated storage and retrieval system covers about 40,000 square feet (around 3,700 square metres), uses 15 robots, holds around 150,000 storage bins with capacity for more than 500,000 unique part numbers, and cuts the time to retrieve a part from six minutes to under 30 seconds; an adjacent metrology lab will support outbound deliveries and regional R&D. Karthik Rammohan, Senior Vice President of Global Operations and Enterprise Solutions, said at the opening ceremony that centralising the logistics operations lets Lam move faster and respond to customers, while US warehouse operations director Troy Rainey said the single site enables rapid reallocation of resources as demand shifts. The warehouse is expected to support more than 200 jobs by 2027. The source does not state the cause.