Fruehauf de México – The Trailer Output Report
Fruehauf de México is reporting its production for the first time. The Fruehauf plant in the suburbs north of Mexico City built 2,128 truck-trailers, a ten percent increase over 2016 output of 1,941 trailers. The largest share of these are dry freight vans, but Fruehauf builds a full range of trailers including flatbeds and drop-deck platforms, curtain-siders, dump trailers, liquid tank trailers, dry bulk pneumatic hoppers and extendable container chassis.
Fruehauf de México was the last Fruehauf plant operating in North America in 2014. It was acquired in 2015 by Alta Growth Capital private equity firm. Scott McDonough, chairman of the Fruehauf de Mexico board of directors, says this plant has been the dominant manufacturer of truck-trailers in Mexico for the last 50 years.
The plant has been in the same location but greatly expanded through those 50 years. Fruehauf International did a major upgrade in 1992, tripling plant size and getting it ready for NAFTA traffic and new size-weight restrictions.
Now a new management team headed by Carlos Porragas, chief executive officer, is upgrading the plant and product line to meet new North American standards. The new Fruehauf 53-ft composite dry van was the first to be redesigned, to be followed by the aluminum and steel platform line.
The Fruehauf de México plant is located at Kilometer 28.5 on the Via Jose Lopez Portillo 131, Col. La Magdalena, Coacalco, Estado de Mexico, C.P. 557000.
(h/t: trailer-bodybuilders.com)