Who owns stoughton trailers

The company rolled on, with employees and revenues growing six-fold between and True to form, a surge late last year in trailer orders from the likes of Amazon, Target, and UPS had Stoughton Trailers looking for hundreds of workers again.

It was never easy, he insists. An understatement, perhaps. In , Wahlin transferred the ownership to a family limited partnership and established a family council to manage it. It is what it is. Decades ago, when he first acquired MPM Corp.

Now in his 80s, Wahlin still yearns for the sky every time he sees a plane flying above. Click here to sign up for the free IB E zine — your twice-weekly resource for local business news, analysis, voices, and the names you need to know. But when the Great Recession hit in , the company struggled to stay afloat.

The workforce dipped below , and it was forced to close several of its plants. Thanks to persistence coupled with investment in educating the remaining employees, Stoughton Trailers rebuilt its sales network to become even stronger and more nimble.

Today, the company is the largest manufacturer in Dane County, and the fifth largest semitrailer manufacturer in the United States. Seven of the second-generation Wahlins have a hand in the family business, and Stoughton Trailers provides one of the most attractive benefits packages to its workers to demonstrate how valuable its employees are. In , the company was renamed Stoughton Body, Inc.

In addition to the truck body production in the original MPM facilities, semitrailer production began in a city owned facility on Academy Street, now referred to as Plant 1. After a disastrous and tragic fire in burned the old MPM plant to the ground, the company bought the Academy Street plant from the city, added on to it, and continued to grow.

In , Plant 2 West Plant was built for the production of over the road vans and flatbed trailers. For the past 20 years production at the 42, square foot facility has been absent, as it had been primarily used as a storage facility.

Currently, the building is being leased out to another Stoughton manufacturing company. For the third time in six years, Stoughton Trailers found the need to add yet another plant with the building of Plant 3 in Running north from the back side of Plant 1, Plant 3 is a 70, square foot facility initially used for the manufacture of Flatbed Trailers and Chassis at a rate of about 1, units per year.