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Fruehauf is Lazarus of the tipper trade
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Fruehauf Tippers has fought back from administration to a brighter future. Brian Weatheriey reports.
FRUEHAUF TIPPERS, the resurrected tipper division of collapsed trailer firm Crane Fruehauf (CF), says it will boost trailer production next year,barely six months after being saved from closure.
Now under the ownership of Wordsworth Holdings, which bought the tipper operation for a reputed £1.5m in March, managing director Dave Tallent says the company will also be looking to expand into steel tipping trailers as well as move into the rigid tipper bodybuilding sector. He hopes to increase annual production from a previously-predicted 500 units a year to 700, as customers return and new UK dealers are signed up. However, it will not be returning to curtainsider production.
Wordsworth chairman Duncan Wordsworth insists: "I don't think anyone can make a curtainsider at the price you need to sell it."
Tallent, says alongside its existing bathtub and smooth-sided tipping trailers Fruehauf will introduce a range of rigid bodies for sixand eight-wheelers."I'd be disappointed if within the next 12 months we weren't looking at 400-5(X) bodies."
Following Wordsworth's acquisition of CF's tipper business, described by Tallent as 'the jewel in the crown', the entire tipping trailer production line, including a newly-commissioned paint facility, has been shipped from CF's now defunct factory in Dereham to Wordsworth's Grantham site.
Despite the earlier gap in operations ,Tallent says 95% of pending orders have been transferred to the new company. Along with several former CF employees,Wordsworth has signed up a number of major dealers, including Newton Commercials, the former distributor for Stas trailers in the UK.
For more on this, see next week's Commercial Motor.