Orbit Logistics

Orbit Logistics is family owned and has been headquartered in Hanover since 1985. Their success has been built on the ability to adapt quickly to their customer's needs with lean and efficient eCommerce fulfillment, warehousing and retail distribution solutions for a wide range of industries through cloud-based inventory management and order processing. This flexible, attentive and multi-channel approach has enabled Orbit Logistics to evolve into a market leader in the order fulfillment and warehousing industries. Orbit Logistics acquired its 416,000 SF order fulfillment center in 2014, and with this acquisition, doubled the space previously occupied by the company. Travers Clemons, president of Orbit, is an outstanding example of superior management and creative problem-solving in the ever-changing logistics and supply chain management industry. Under his leadership, Orbit quickly adapts to new technologies as the demands of the consumer and eCommerce developments create new expectations for meeting their client's needs. Orbit has plans to build an additional 200,000 SF distribution facility on the 26 acres adjacent to their property on Route 1 to continue expanding their eCommerce fulfillment services. They are also exploring the development of a FabLab within this facility to accommodate small scale/small run on-demand manufacturing. According to Travers, "I would love to help make Hanover an 'Innovation Zone,' and I think the next evolution of distribution will require companies to localize manufacturing/production via some iteration of a FabLab." In January of 2018, Orbit launched a new software development agency in Ashland called Orbit Sync that specializes in cloud-based software solutions for Healthcare. This software helps healthcare providers deploy and track patient critical assets within their networks as well as providing analytics support to manage those assets efficiently. Orbit currently operates three eCommerce fulfillment centers in Ashland, Charlottesville and Roanoke, VA.