Medline has started construction on a new 1.2 million-square-foot distribution facility in Midlothian, Texas, committing $150 million to the industrial project. The company plans to incorporate an advanced storage and retrieval system at the site, signaling a focus on automation and supply chain efficiency at the newly planned facility.
Medline describes itself as the largest provider of medical-surgical products and supply chain solutions serving all points of care in the United States. The new Midlothian development is intended to expand the company's logistics platform that supports health-care providers across a wide range of settings.
The planned property is designed to complement Medline's existing warehouse presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. The company currently operates an 800,000-square-foot warehouse in Wilmer, Texas, which serves health-care providers including hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physician offices, nursing homes, and hospices. Together, the Wilmer facility and the future Midlothian distribution center are positioned to broaden Medline's capacity to move medical-surgical supplies through the DFW industrial market.
Once the Midlothian distribution center becomes operational next year, it will mark Medline's 45th distribution center across the United States. This addition continues the buildout of a national logistics network that supports the company's role in supplying health-care customers with medical-surgical products and related services.
Across the country, Medline reports that it owns more than 26 million square feet of warehouse space. The new 1.2 million-square-foot facility in Midlothian will add meaningfully to that footprint while deepening the company's presence in Texas and the broader Dallas-Fort Worth industrial corridor. The combination of large-format warehouse space and an advanced storage and retrieval system is expected to support the company's broader distribution platform once the facility is completed and placed into service.
The Midlothian project represents a continuation of Medline's strategy of investing directly in its owned warehouse network rather than relying solely on third-party logistics space. With the company already operating a substantial national portfolio of distribution centers, this development further scales its ability to manage medical-surgical supply chain operations across multiple care settings in the U.S.
