Gurnee, Illinois. One building.
Two production areas — the main production floor with its machine lines, and a 25,000 sq ft isolated production area — plus climate-controlled storage and a dock that enters mail directly into the USPS mail stream, a little over 30 miles from O’Hare.
- Floor area
- 200,000 sq ft
- Isolated production area
- 25,000 sq ft
- Environment
- Climate-controlled
- Security
- Controlled access, video monitored 24/7/365
Our facility
Contained, secured, climate-controlled.
Your products will be contained and secured in our controlled-access facility that is video monitored 24/7/365. Our modern 200,000 sq ft facility is also climate-controlled and includes 25,000 sq ft of isolated production area (IPA). Learn more about our equipment.
Contract packaging, lettershop and direct mail, and 3PL fulfillment all happen here: in the same building, against the same inventory record, under the same certificate, for the same account manager. Mail leaves under USPS Optional Procedure from the same dock. Most brands assemble that from three vendors.
Because nothing leaves the building between stages, there is no freight between a co-packer, a mail house and a warehouse, and no handoff where the lot trace breaks.
Find us at
MGA Innovation, 3818 Grandville Avenue, Gurnee, IL 60031. Directions.
Flow
Dock to dock, in one direction.
Product enters at receiving, is packed or kitted, is held, and leaves by freight, mail or parcel. It never leaves the building between stages.
Cutaway drawing of the MGA plant in Gurnee, from MGA’s floor plan. Product arrives at receiving on the dock wall, is held in storage, through the staging area, is packed in the production area or by hand in the isolated production area, and comes back to one junction at the ship doors on the dock, where it leaves three ways: to the shelf, to the mailbox or to the doorstep. Each zone links to its page.
- Receive
Appointment, count, QC hold, lot capture. Customer-owned goods segregated by owner.
- Pack & kit
2a Production area2b Isolated production area
Machine lines and hand assembly across two production areas, including the 25,000 sq ft isolated production area.
- Hold
StorageS Staging area
Climate-controlled, controlled-access storage. Counts owner-scoped and lot-level.
- Ship
Retail freight, USPS induction off our own dock, or parcel to the consumer.
- To the Shelf
We're putting product on a retail shelf.
- To the Mailbox
We're mailing to a list or running a sampling program.
- To the Doorstep
We ship to consumers, one order at a time.
Zone plan
What is in each zone.
Six zones under one roof, laid out from MGA’s own floor plan: one dock wall with receiving at one end and shipping at the other.
Receiving
The receiving end of the dock wall: inbound doors and the QC hold area, beside warehouse storage.
Production area
The main production floor and its machine lines: cartoning, overwrapping, shrink wrapping and inserting on Kodiak, Adco and PMI Kyoto cartoners, Fuji overwrappers, Shanklin shrink wrappers and automatic insertion machines.
Isolated production area
25,000 sq ft set apart for hand assembly: glass, porcelain, gift packs and anything too intricate for a machine.
Staging area
Materials staged at the far end of the plant, between warehouse storage and the isolated production area.
Storage
Racked and floor storage, climate-controlled and controlled-access.
Dock
The shipping end of the same dock wall, with ship staging beside it. Retail freight, USPS mail entered under Optional Procedure and consumer parcels leave from our own dock.
Why one building
Three vendors, or one roof.
What changes when co-packing, mail and fulfillment happen against one inventory record instead of three.
| Dimension | Three vendors | One roof |
|---|---|---|
| Inventory record | Three reports, none authoritative | One record, owner-scoped, lot-level |
| Freight between stages | Two inter-vendor moves, each a damage and delay risk | None — product moves across the floor |
| Contracts & insurance | Three contracts, three COIs | One contract, one COI |
| Audits | Three supplier audits, three corrective-action loops | One site, one certificate |
| Lot traceability | Breaks at every handoff | Receipt to proof of delivery, unbroken |
| Owner of the date | Nobody | Your account manager, by name |
Held at this address
Certified and approved here.
The details are on Certifications, without a form in front of them.
- SQF certified
- Premier USPS Customer
- Approved for Optional Procedure
- Approved for commingling
Visit
Come and see it running.
Capability visits and pre-award audits are booked directly with plant operations: Eric Swanson, Director of Plant Operations. Book a tour or audit.
In the northern suburbs of Chicago, a few miles from Waukegan National and a little over 30 miles from O’Hare. Directions and distances.
See it, or send the spec.
Set up an appointment with our team, or send the pack, the volumes and the date and the estimator will quote against the line it would run on.