CHAT of Michigan Inc

Where CHAT is Now

73,000 square feet of warehouse space to accommodate your crating, handling and transportation needs located 0.8 miles from DTW, I-94 and I-275.

I-275 and I-94 Corridor Access

Lastest Warehouse

CHAT is proud to open its latest warehouse in Erie, Pennsylvania. This 70,000 square foot facility is located on 6.7 acres of land to handle your locomotives and other oversized equipment needs. It is located at 1411 Wayne Street.

CHAT’s Beginning

CHAT of Michigan, Inc. began under the license and name of KMS, a sole proprietorship, founded by Greg Katcher as an additional income opportunity conducted mainly after hours and on the weekend. The freight forwarders in the Detroit Metro area needed a new source for crating and packaging services. KMS would bring supplies to freight forwarder facilities cargo warehouses throughout the Detroit area and package on location for each customer. KMS did not have a warehouse or office to operate from, therefore, a spare bedroom was converted into an office with one added telephone line and fax machine. Within six months, enough money had been saved to rent 500 sq. ft. of warehouse and 375 sq. ft. of office space. The additional earnings provided the start and full incorporation of CHAT of Michigan.

Full Vendor Status

The staff grew as the customers did and we eventually had no more space in the complex to add onto our warehouse. We then took the risk and bought eight acres of vacant land in hopes of building our own facility located across from the new Metro Midfield Terminal at Detroit International Airport. CHAT of Michigan, Inc. now has more acreage at the airport paid in full than all of its Michigan competitors with the ability to expand our current facility to over a million square feet if and when needed. We are proud to say that our steady growth has been only by referral business for the last decade, using no sales representatives to promote business, but letting our services and our 2,000 plus customers talk and promote us. We have held the P.O.A. for General Motors the whole time of services, the account for all Hazardous Material exports in DTW, as well as, the first four customers that took that chance with CHAT of Michigan, Inc. namely ABB Robotics which has had no claims for over a decade. We have crated and packaged over four billion dollars of their customer’s assembly lines and robotics equipment. In addition, the list of customers that have been added will state the same type of history. CHAT of Michigan, Inc, now holds the P.O.A. for all the big three and most of their main suppliers for Hazardous Material. We have crated assets such as various equipment, auto parts, as well as prototype parts and personal effects for the international and domestic market for them. We are also an USA approved vendor and for over eleven years, U.N. approved vendor. CHAT of Michigan, Inc. has serviced Ford Motor Co., and others for the entire time but has allowed the freight forwarders to bill those companies. CHAT’s Ford Motor Co. status would allow for temporary projects or to be paid by corporate cards and third party billing. BAX Globals, Emery and others like them would bring Ford Motor Co. work to CHAT of Michigan, Inc. for our services as well as their other clients. We feel that we have reached the ability to qualify for full vendor status with Ford Motor Co., because of our ability to maintain vendor status as a United Nations and United States licensed service provider.

CHAT of Michigan, a custom crating and packaging company, is built to help you ship better. As a worldwide freight forwarder, we understand that as we save your company money, your business will grow. As our customers grow so do we. Our philosophy is to get you the safest shipping strategy available. This means keeping your product safe as well as your bottom line.

When we say handling the world is our business, we mean it. We have agents to assist you in every major airport in the world. It may be medical supplies to the North Pole, or an entire factory to the other side of the planet. CHAT knows we can handle it because we already have.

rom a simple pallet to massive oversized loads, every package you ship is unique and deserves to be treated as such. That is why our packaging engineers design every structure we build to suit the customers’ needs. If you are not sure of the requirements for your product shipment, one of our crate designers will visit your location. Your crate is our reputation.