“There are also certain products you just can’t haul in aluminum trailers, such as orange juice, milk, acid-based chemicals, even high-temperature liquids,” Moffitt said. “Certain products are just better suited to stainless steel rather than aluminum and so we want to be in a position to capture some of that business.”
(The company also introduced what it called a "unique" ultra-cleanable food grade dry bulk trailer at Mid America: the model 1611, seen above at right.)
Randall Swift, Heil’s president and CEO, noted the trailer-maker made significant investments in its Juarez, Mexico, manufacturing facility in order to build stainless steel products – adding laser welding equipment and expanding the plant by some 368,000 sq. ft.
“We’re still in ‘ramp-up’ mode but we should begin to roll the first stainless steel tankers off the line by July,” he told Fleet Owner.
