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Page IB PROGRESS Wednesday April 1990 Cobra helps to move Halton Hills garbage ByBENDUMMETT The Herald Nobody likes garbage but somebody has to move It And Georgetowns Cobra Manufactur ing is one company set to take ad vantage of the task Cobras coowner Richard predicts that the transpor tation of garbage is one market that is expanding And thus there will be a greater demand for transfer trailers Cobras Georgetown plant employs 50 people The firm builds a variety of dump trailers The company also has a branch ui Whitby which employs 10 people Garbage transfer trailers are self unloading said Mr Hignett meaning the trailer doesn t have to be tipped back to unload the gar bage This kind of specialty trailer is needed to transport garbage from a transfer station to a landfill because the ground at landfill sites is soft explained Mr Hignett If the standard dump trailer was us ed at a landfill site the ground would be too soft to support the truck and when the trailer was tip ped backwards the truck would follow he said The manufacturing of transfer trailers currently makes up five per cent of Cobra s business but the market will expand as more garbage has to be transferred to landfill sites said Mr Hignett Cobra moved from Brampton in 1985 because a larger plant was needed Mr Hignett said The company lasted two years in Brampton starting in 1983 and during that penod it was producing six dump trailers a month Cobra currently produces between four and five dump trailers a week said Mr Hignett Eighty per cent of the company production involves the building of dump trailers The building of just the dump truck bodies makes up 10 per cent of the company s produc lion The company also builds com bination dump units saia Mr Hignett A combination unit might be composed of a truck with a dump trailer and a separate trailer towed behind the truck The companys biggest customers are aggregate sand gravel and asphalt producers The trailers are also used by farmers to haul feed and grain Although Mr Hignett is op timistic about the future he said the economy is going through a lull period Cobras business is geared to the construction industry which probably wont be as active in the near future as it has been in the past he said Cobras production will probably level off to about four trucks a week being manufactured this summer he predicted But Mr Hignett said the com pany is currently looking to expand into western Canada In terms of future changes in technology Mr Hignett said he is constantly on the lookout for stronger and lighter steel As it becomes available Cobra will the first to use it he said The IS lighter the steel the more an in dividual trailer can transport And that means Cobra trailers will be that much more cost efficient ex plained Mr Hignett Cobra Manufacturing specializes in the building of dump trailers Dump trailers like this one are used to transport various material in cluding aggregate sand gravel and i feed and grain Herald photo and farming products like DJ Boucher Sons Aluminum Ltd A FAMILY BUSINESS Quality Workmanship is our Guarantee For Your Spring Renovations We are EXPERTS in Siding Soffit Fascia Windows Doors FREE ESTIMATES Boucher Sons a i i Cone 8 Aluminum Ltd Georgetown