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Wabash National consolidates of its platform manufacturing facilities
By Successful Dealer Staff
Wabash National Corporation announced that it's wholly owned subsidiary, Transcraft Corporation, a manufacturer of flatbed, drop deck, dump trailers and truck bodies, has agreed on the terms of a sale of its Anna, Ill. production facility and will consolidate its operations into its Cadiz, Ky. facility. Platform production at the Anna facility will cease sometime in the first half of 2010, at which time the new production lines at the Cadiz production facility will be fully operational.
“These types of decisions always are difficult to make, especially when it affects associates, but due to the current economic climate we are faced with the need to further right size our operating footprint and reduce our cost structure. We expect this to be a seamless transition in production due to utilization of excess manufacturing equipment, which should have no impact to our customers,” said Terry Campbell, general manager of Transcraft Corporation.
Transcraft will consolidate production of all product lines from two production facilities to one in Cadiz, Ky., which also will serve as its corporate headquarters. The Cadiz manufacturing plant is a modern, purpose-built facility that currently produces all of Transcraft's aluminum platform and dump product lines.
“This will complete the consolidation process of the company's platform business, which began in October 2007 with the closure of the Mt. Sterling, Ky. plant. Similar to our Lafayette Transformation Project completed earlier this year, this consolidation initiative continues the optimization of our production facilities and overhead cost structure that we have been focused on throughout the current economic climate,” said Wabash National President and Chief Executive Officer Dick Giromini. |
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