Sherman Goldenberg

A busy Wednesday (March 29) auction of tooling and varied factory equipment apparently represented the final chapter in the story of Forks RV Inc., a small family-held firm located on U.S. 20 west of Shipshewana, Ind., in the heart of Hoosier Amish country, that started out manufacturing commercial buildings and police command centers in 1991. […]

Today’s (Mar. 2) morning session of the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association’s 2017 Leadership Conference – formerly known as the RVIA Annual Meeting – in Boca Raton, Fla., featured a flurry of good reports on the overall performance and outlook of the U.S. recreational vehicle arena. But one of the more interesting turn of events to emerge […]

There’s probably no better example today of how RV industry suppliers are contributing to — and benefiting from — the RV arena’s ongoing, seven-year growth spurt than Elkhart, Ind.-based Genesis Products. The 525-employee, seven-facility firm, which specializes in laminated panels and interior components, is launching construction in March of a 200,000-square-foot corporate center on the […]

The RV industry’s ongoing growth curve is prompting a wave of expansion projects, and there’s no better example of that positive turn of events than the main Goshen, Ind., campus of Keystone RV Co., where, from all appearances, a building boom is underway. Not only is the 5,000-employee Thor Industries Inc. subsidiary in the middle […]

Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly took a break from the rigors of Washington D.C. Monday (Feb. 20) to visit a front-line RV industry supplier, Robert Weed Plywood Corp. in Bristol, Ind., where he spent time at a variety of work stations learning about the work-a-day regimen that employees of the 50-year-old, family-held business experience on a […]

Making their first joint appearance under the Covercraft Industries LLC banner at the 2017 NTP-STAG Expo were representatives of Pauls Valley, Okla.-based Covercraft, a 52-year-old supplier of automotive custom-fit vehicle covers, and ADCO Products Inc., a 62-year-old firm marketing a variety of RV covers out of Valencia, Calif., following the surprise Dec. 22 announcement that […]

As reported on RVBUSINESS.com late last week, Elkhart, Ind.-based supplier Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) is launching an unprecedented companywide “social responsibility initiative” through which LCI’s 7,500 employees are being asked to donate 100,000 hours of community service work in the numerous communities in which LCI’s 48 plants are located. “Our senior leaders (management) get together as […]

More good news for the North American RV industry emerged from the 2017 NTP-STAG Expo held this week (Jan. 30-31) at the Anaheim Convention Center where some 200 supplier-exhibitors and 2,500 attendees pursued a busy schedule. A series of educational “RV University” sessions opened the agenda on Monday before the late afternoon kickoff of a day-and-a-half […]

The U.S. recreation vehicle industry was well represented on Capitol Hill during the festivities surrounding the Friday (Jan. 20) inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States – the most significant moment being the 2017 Indiana Inaugural Ball hosted at the Grand Hyatt Washington by the Indiana Society of Washington, […]

The U.S. recreation vehicle industry was well represented on Capitol Hill during the festivities surrounding the Friday (Jan. 20) inauguration of Donald J. Trump as the 45th president of the United States – the most significant moment being the 2017 Indiana Inaugural Ball hosted at the Grand Hyatt Washington by the Indiana Society of Washington, […]