Titan Trailers, a North American leader in custom-built smoothside aluminum trailers used in scrap, waste, recycling, forestry and aggregate applications, announced plans to expand its manufacturing capacity with a new sub-assembly in Tillsonburg, Ontario.
Titan is best known as the originator of lightweight extruded aluminum smoothside trailer bodies which provide increased load capacity and improved fuel efficiency for transporting heavy-duty materials. The manufacturer’s head office location in Delhi, Ontario, was previously expanded in 2007 with the addition of a 32,000 sq. ft. state-of-the-art “green” facility to house its trailer finishing and engineering operations.
Earlier this year, Titan had plans to build a new sub-assembly and parts facility when an existing property in Tillsonburg became available for purchase. The Tillsonburg site, formerly owned by DeCloet, an agricultural equipment company, offered 60,000 sq. ft. of multi purpose manufacturing space well suited to Titan’s requirements.
“This property gives us a ready-made solution to Titan’s needs for added capacity and efficiency,” says Mike Kloepfer, founder and president of Titan Trailers. “It has everything we need for secure, enclosed storage and custom assembly work, plus space for us to develop other opportunities we’ve been exploring.”
The new facility will be used primarily to receive warehouse running gear components such as axles, tires and suspension parts, which will be assembled-to-order onsite. The running gear sub-assemblies will then be transferred to the Delhi location to be paired with their trailer bodies. The Tillsonburg site will also complete the installation of the moving floors for Titan’s self-unloading trailers, receiving and assembling components from KEITH WALKING FLOOR. Kloepfer estimates that, when the facility is fully operational, it will create 10 new positions, as well as relocation for a number of employees from the Delhi location.
