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Mar 7, 2012

TRUCK BODIES MAKERS * USA

* Indiana - Maker of truck bodies plans to add up to 350 jobs in Goshen

(Photo: Supreme's Armored van)
Goshen,IND,USA -IBJ Bussiness Journal -March 6, 2012: -- Supreme Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of customized truck bodies, said Tuesday that it plans to add up to 350 jobs in its headquarters city of Goshen by 2015... The publicly traded company, which has manufacturing operations in five states, said it will invest nearly $8 million to refurbish and equip facilities on its 100 acre-campus in Elkhart County... Supreme, which currently employs 630 in Goshen and more than 1,600 nationwide, will begin hiring manufacturing workers later this year... The company, founded 33 years ago, builds and distributes commercial truck bodies and buses, including armored trucks, dry-freight and insulated cargo vans, service vans, shuttle buses and trolleys...

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Mar 12, 2011

TRUCKS BODIES * USA - Improving Market for Work Truck Bodies

Slowly but surely, truck bodies are selling again. Today's buyers different from those who bought before recession

Arlington,VA,USA -Light & Medium Truck -March 2, 2011: ... Smaller, lighter-weight, versatile, longer-lasting are features selling truck bodies in early 2011... Improved materials making box trucks last longer, w/ fewer repairs... Buying boxes w/ rivetless sides to further reduce maintenance; shifting to smaller-size boxes... Interchangeable body systems generating significant interest in tight economy... Buyers going for new service bodies, but w/o all the trimmings...   One reason for change is falling price of stainless steel. Stainless steel weighs less than carbon steel; more resistant to corrosion... (Photo left: Aluminum truck body - Photo right: Stainless steel truck body)

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Sep 28, 2007

Aluminium Bodies * UK - Thompson tips its hat at the aluminium tipper body market

Lancashire,England,UK -Biglorryblog -27 Sept 2007: -- Not content with cornering the steel tipping body market, Thompsons is now making a concerted drive into the market for aluminium bodies. And to support this thrust its upping its current production capacity to handle a new range of ally bodywork for 18, 26 and 32-tonne trucks... Thompsons' number one product for the aluminium market will be its Sandmaster, a body with one-piece pressed sides and top rail design that closely follows its steel Loadmaster body. However it says: "Improved features for aluminium bodywork are already being designed"...

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