Brown Industries opens Colorado facility

June 14, 2012
Brown Industries LLC, manufacturer of Brown Cargo Vans since 1946 and a pioneering manufacturer of aluminum van bodies, has expanded and opened a new facility in Henderson CO.

Brown Industries LLC, manufacturer of Brown Cargo Vans since 1946 and a pioneering manufacturer of aluminum van bodies, has expanded and opened a new facility in Henderson CO. The new location will assemble, mount, and install specialty equipment/accessories on refrigerated, dry freight, cutaway, curtainside, and custom van body kits in addition to building heavy-duty lumber bodies for customers in the western United States.

The Colorado facility features a sales and shop team of van body/truck equipment manufacturing veterans that bring more than 113 years of combined experience from Timpte Inc and Alfred Industries.

Employees include: Jerry Smittkamp, sales/branch manager; Dawn Lawson, office manager; Jeremy Hayes, shop manager; Cory Martinez, lumber body specialist; Tom Gainey, liftgate and repair specialist; and Chris Vargas, assembly and paint specialist.

“Finding people with the experience and knowledge that we have working for us on the front range, coupled with a facility that’s the right size to assemble kits from our main plant represented an opportunity we couldn’t pass up,” said Dane Jennison, president of Brown Industries.

To learn more, visit www.bcvi.com.

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