Wabash recently hosted a ribbon cutting event for its advanced dry van trailer manufacturing facility in Lafayette, Indiana.
More than 150 people attended to mark this milestone in the company’s history, including dealers, customers, suppliers, state and local elected officials, and community partners. The conversion of Wabash’s Lafayette-based South Plant from refrigerated trailer capacity to dry van capacity is the largest investment Wabash has made in a single operation in the company’s 38 years.
Read more: Wabash reports record revenue, income for Q2“Today is special because the culmination of this massive project represents what we can achieve at Wabash when we allow ourselves to re-imagine what’s possible in manufacturing,” said Wabash President and Chief Executive Officer Brent Yeagy. “We had 100 or more Wabash team members touch this expansion project over the last two years. I could not be more proud of the way they stuck with the mission to upgrade our dry van manufacturing for both capacity and efficiency, as well as worker safety.”
Announced in July 2021, production on the expansion began several months ago, and once the plant is fully ramped, the company will have doubled production at its Lafayette South Plant with the same facility footprint and workforce. Now, the center will be able to produce an additional 10,000 dry van trailers annually, the full impact of which the company expects to see in 2024.