Hamilton’s Overflow Warehousing & Logistics is taking a load off during the pandemic

Overflow Warehousing & Logistics may be brand new to Hamilton, but the well-earned expertise behind it is anything but. 

Owners Ron Lang and Theresa Diciccio, with over 40 years of experience in the warehousing business, officially opened the doors at Overflow Warehousing this October where they now offer storage solutions to a wide variety of industrial commercial clients who need a trustworthy eye on their excess bulk stock and space to house a variety of manufactured goods.  

This line of business runs deep in the family. Lang’s parents moved to Hamilton from Quebec more than 50 years ago, and his father built a warehouse in the city while working for a construction company. By 1974, he owned that warehouse and, eventually, became one of the go-to local leaders in the field. 

“I worked with my dad for 27 years,” says Lang. “We’ve always been in the warehouse business. We had every factory in the city as customers.”

That formative path has led to a lifelong career in the industry for Lang, who had most recently worked in a different warehouse alongside his wife, Theresa Diciccio. However, like many workers in countless industries in Hamilton, the COVID-19 pandemic changed everything for the Hamilton couple.

“When COVID hit, we both lost our jobs,” explains Lang. While they didn’t rush into any immediate backup plans in the initial months that followed, they eventually reached a point where they couldn’t bear to sit around any longer; a point where the vision for Overflow Warehousing began swiftly coming together.

“This is what we know how to do, so we thought, ‘we’re going to take a chance’ and started up again a couple of months later,” says Lang. “We can’t sit here at home, we have to get back to work.” 

Getting back to work, in this case, meant hunting down what is now Overflow Warehousing’s shiny new facility in Stoney Creek, sitting at a substantial 40,000 square feet of storage space ready to be filled. With the doors freshly flung open on October 5th and a handful of clients from the region already making use of Overflow’s services, the next goal is to get the sizable space filled up. 

Doing that shouldn’t be too difficult. According to Lang, Overflow Warehousing is in a unique position to store a wider variety of goods than some similar facilities in the region.

“It’s a clean, food-grade warehouse,” he explains, adding that on top of housing industrial goods like steel, cement, and flooring, the space can readily store and manage food products and ingredients from imported specialty items to fresh produce; something other warehouses in Hamilton may not be able to accommodate as safely or easily. 

Simply storing excess goods isn’t where Overflow Warehousing stops, though. Lang and Diciccio are proud that their warehouse offers a whole host of other specialized services, including computerized and customizable inventory management, same-day picking and distribution for orders, ground or dock level loading and unloading, and container destuffing; all provided with the expertise of industry veterans and the priceless personality of a family-run business.   

Though just a few months old, Overflow Warehousing & Logistics is more than ready to hit the ground running; not bad for a business that, if the pandemic hadn’t turned the world upside down, might not have even existed.

Check them out online at overflowwarehousing.ca

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