Risk & Business Magazine McFarlan Rowlands Spring 2016 | Page 26

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& Titan Trailers
B A McFarlan Rowlands Client-Feature

BY: JOHN FACEY, CORPORATE COMMUNICATIONS INTERN, MCFARLAN ROWLANDS

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ncorporated in 1979, Titan Trailers has
focused on quality design and problem
solving from day 1. Titan Trailers began
in earnest in 1973 when Michael Kloepfer
built the first Titan Trailer, a hopper, for
the local agricultural market. Prior to
incorporating the company, he had been
building trailers for use on the family
farm and, once he found the market
favorable in the local area, the business
was born. The original hopper trailers
were used to haul grain to elevators. They
were differentiated from the standard
dump trailers which were in use at the
time by allowing both greater volumes
to be hauled and providing a higher level
of safety. Dump trailers were notoriously
unstable unless they were unloaded
under perfect conditions, which was a
problem that Michael was able to solve.
From that initial start in a family farm
shed, Titan Trailers has grown from
4 employees to over 220 employees.
They now utilize state of the art
manufacturing facilities and export their
brand of trailers all over the world. The
primary production facility includes
robotic welding systems, computer
modeling systems and a complete gamut
of fabrication equipment. The trailers
that they make have shifted from a focus
on agricultural applications to a variety

of industries, most importantly the waste
hauling industry. T H\X