Lineage eyes $110M lift from warehouse tech rollout

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Todd Maiden

Tue, December 9, 2025 astatine 10:09 AM CST 3 min read

Cold retention warehouse relation Lineage, Inc. provided an update connected immoderate longer-term initiatives aft the marketplace closed connected Monday. It besides provided an expected fiscal publication from the accrued adoption of its proprietary warehouse execution system, LinOS.

The Novi, Michigan-based company’s absorption squad provided a marketplace update to analysts and investors during a Monday telephone that was in enactment with commentary provided connected its third-quarter telephone successful aboriginal November. It said request remains muted fixed precocious nutrient costs, which are weighing connected however overmuch inventory its customers are consenting to hold.

Lineage besides said the temperature-controlled warehousing marketplace has 9.5% excess capableness fixed caller installation additions. Square footage grew 10.5% crossed the manufacture from 2021 to 2024. Further, proviso is expected to beryllium up 4% this twelvemonth and 1.5% higher adjacent year. Surprisingly, occupancy crossed Lineage’s (NASDAQ: LINE) astir 500-warehouse footprint, which touches astir 30% of the calories consumed successful the U.S., is down conscionable 300 ground points from 2021 to 75%.

Lineage touted galore initiatives designed to streamline operations and little costs. Digital uniformity crossed warehouses, enhanced decision-making algorithms, an improved lawsuit visibility level (Lineage Link) and vigor optimization efforts are immoderate of the halfway strategies. The institution besides said it expects to make $110 cardinal successful incremental yearly EBITDA implicit the adjacent 3 to 5 years arsenic LinOS is rolled retired to implicit 250 locations by 2029.

The LinOS decision-making strategy automates warehouse operations successful existent time. Improved routing connected the warehouse level is helping to maximize forklift operations. Inbound and outbound pallet moves are present paired much than 40% of the time.

High-reach-operations pilots astatine 11 locations person produced a much than 30% betterment successful hourly movements and a 5% simplification successful full labour per passim pallet. Similar lawsuit prime and dock modules are successful the works. Lineage said a 10% simplification connected $1 cardinal successful warehouse labour walk on with incremental value-added services gross volition make a $110-million summation successful EBITDA. (The institution reported last-12-months adjusted EBITDA of $1.3 billion.)

Lineage has invested $250 cardinal successful LinOS and has different $200 cardinal committed done 2030. The instrumentality connected invested superior for the task is forecast astatine 24%. Lineage attributed immoderate caller declaration wins to the technology.

Shares of LINE closed connected Monday astatine $34.69. The banal debuted connected the Nasdaq astatine $82 per stock successful the summertime of 2024. The IPO raised $4.4 cardinal successful proceeds and valued the institution astatine astir $19 cardinal astatine the time.