Logging & Chip Trailer Manufacturing in North America: Market Size, Shares & Analysis

Rockville, MD (PRWEB) July 10, 2013 -- Logging & Chip Trailer Manufacturing in North America: Market Size, Shares & Analysis

When logs are hauled to saw mills for processing, a portion of the wood results in lumber, and the remainder becomes chips that are used as raw material in pulp and paper mills. These two products are usually transported in trailers engineered specifically to haul one or the other. Logs are hauled in an open trailer with bunks, bolsters, stakes or other equivalent means which cradle the logs and prevent them from rolling. Chip vans are box trailers used to transport forestry products such as wood chips, biomass and wood residue.

Although logging trailers and chip van trailers feature completely different designs, these two products are included together in this report is because of a common customer segment—the forestry industry. Logging trailers and chip van trailers are considered complementary product lines. The production of logging and chip trailers, with an estimated market value of $130 million in 2012, is small in terms of units manufactured. For most manufacturers, these types of trailers are not their primary products. In this report STN has presented data and analysis on 25 identified manufacturers of logging and chip van trailers in North America, six of which include both types of trailers in their product offerings. Two-thirds of all units manufactured are turned out by the top five manufacturers.

In addition to these companies, there are other manufacturers that produced a handful of logging and/or chip trailers in 2012. Small regional manufacturers are significant because proximity to customers is an important selling point.

The collapse of the US housing market ravaged the timber processing industry, with thousands of workers laid off, mills closed and companies losing money, as reflected in the report’s historical estimates of the size of the logging and chip trailer industries over the period 2006 to 2012. Projections for the size of the industry over the period 2013 to 2017 indicate a strong recovery in 2013 as the construction industry builds inventory in the run-up to healthy construction growth anticipated in 2014.

Logging & Chip Trailer Manufacturing in North America: Market Size, Shares & Analysis – Table of Contents:

A. Preface
B. Scope & Methodology
C. Product Definitions
C.1 Log Trailers
C.2 Chip Van Trailers
D. Industry Overview
D.1 Manufacturing Practices, Product & Technology
D.2 Product Innovation
D.3 Industry Structure
D.4 M&A Activity, Consolidation & Realignment
D.5 Profitability Analysis
D.5.1 McCoy Corporation: McCoy Trailers
E. Market Analysis
E.1 Channels
E.2 Market Size
E.3 Market Shares
E.4 Market Analysis by Product Type
E.4.1 Logging Trailers
E.4.2 Chip Van Trailers
F. Analysis by Geographic Region
F.1 Region Classification
F.2 Production Estimates by Region
G. Market Outlook
G.1 Demand Drivers
G.2 Projected Market Size
H. Manufacturer Data
I. Manufacturer Profiles
Anser Mfg. Ltd.
Arctic Manufacturing
Big John Trailers
Deloupe Trailers
Doepker Industries Ltd.
Evans Trailers
Ferree Trailers
Freflyt Trailers
General Trailer Parts LLC
Great Lakes Mfg. Inc.
Innovative Trailers
KNL Holdings – Peerless Chip Van
Lincoln Industrial Corp.
Magnolia Trailers
Manac Trailers
McCoy Corp. – McCoy Trailers – Peerless
McLendon Trailers
Pelletier Mfg., Inc.
Pitts Trailers/Dorsey Trailers
Profab Mfg. Ltd.
Reliance Trailer – Alloy Chip Trailers
Titan Trailers Inc.
Western Trailer
Whit-Log

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