Wabash National injects new life into Little Falls' shuttered boat factory
26 Apr 2017
Business Expansion
Larson Boat — in better times above —closed its 114-employee Little Falls plant in January and merged operations into its Wisconsin flagship plant.
The Wabash Cannonball, if you will, is rolling into Little Falls to the delight of the job-hungry locals.
Indiana-based Wabash National, a growing maker of high-test, lightweight truck trailers, has acquired for $3 million the just-shuttered Larson Boat plant, a nearly century-old business in the central Minnesota town.
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Wabash National Corp. has purchased and plans to renovate a 53-acre manufacturing site – formerly Larson Boats – in Little Falls and use it to manufacture select parts for the semi-trailer and truck body market using a propriety molded structural composite (MSC) technology.
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