FOURTEEN camping trailers have now rolled off the floor at Drifta Kitchens.
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Manager Luke Sutton said the sheet metal workshop was in overdrive filling customer orders since the first built-from-scratch trailer rolled off the production line six months ago.
There are now four full-time employees based in the trailer manufacture workshop, two of whom have just become the first apprentices from the business to complete the first year of their sheet metal fabrication traineeships with TAFE.
“It’s the first time we’ve had guys doing metal fabricating,” Mr Sutton said.
“The two trades we now offer here, cabinet making and metal fabricating, are quite specialised. The guys are really getting something worthwhile out of it.”
Shane Maurer and Jack Yates are the two apprentices currently completing sheet metal fabrications with TAFE at Drifta.
“Shane was a cabinet maker, but all the guys working in the shed are better suited to metal work,” Mr Sutton said.
The team is currently producing about three camping trailers per month with plans to double that to six this year.
“Now we’ve got more guys in the shed production should increase,” Mr Sutton said.
Clients from as far away as Western Australia and Ecuador have already purchased or expressed interest in buying one of the trailers.
“They’re a unique design - short and light. You can’t get anything like them anywhere else in the world.”