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By Sharla Ishmael near term anyway. Schopmeyer says he believes the concept has tremendous that we don’t today?” he poses. “As we represent probably 15% of our build today, but this is the area we want to from a strategic standpoint, this is what we want to do going forward.” Acquiring new clients in some of that they’ve never considered — like rendering — as Schopmeyer and his “Being part of NARA has helped us have industry knowledge about things like organics recycling that we can share segmented piece of our business with a focus in that area. In 10 years, it could be a standalone than probably anybody imagined, and R When is a trailer more than just problem. For the past 35 years, the concept of a trailer has constantly Houston, Texas. In 1989, the company and began manufacturing one product — a classic aluminum end dump trailer. and tote dumpers to its product line, the way. Each new model or feature was for a customer’s problems. A few months ago, Travis launched an entirely new division called Travis the company’s original strengths in manufacturing trailer solutions while focusing on industries that play leading rendering, biosolids and waste/refuse. “Every year we do strategic planning and we always talk about waste and past year, we really got into how to put this line of thinking to the experience with the North American Renderers “That’s where we came up with the focusing on industries that are working towards a more sustainable world out there. So, when she heard the pitch, her answer was, ‘I love it, let’s go.’ Then we started brainstorming on what it needs to look like and what exactly we need to do. This was about six months ago. that we want to focus on right away are rendering, organics, biosolids and refuse,” of go together from the standpoint of trying to minimize the waste from going the number of trucks going out. In that industry, we can utilize the big waste trailers that we build to help reduce carbon emissions that way.” Schopmeyer emphasizes the company is not rebranding but rather trailer designs but rather reaching out to One of Travis’ rendering trailers manufactured in Houston, Texas. 28 June 2025 Render www.rendermagazine.com
