AISI also is lobbying for steel framing with consumers. Mobile homes and truck trailers on a roll hipments of manufactured homes, or mobile homes, in Jan.-March totaled 81,300, down by 4 percent from last year. But in the next several months, shipments will increase over last year's levels, the Manufactured Housing Institute says. Rainy weather in many major mobile-home markets hampered installations. I-beams are among the products that steelmakers provide for this market.
Production is concentrated in Georgia, Texas, Alabama, North Carolina, Indiana, and Tennessee.
The company purchases hot band, galvanized, and other types of flat-rolled. The truck-trailer market reached the low point of its recent cycle last year. Several businesses have filed for bankruptcy since that time. Although the industry won't be as strong as it was two years ago, business will remain at its current level and perhaps improve for the rest of 1997, the executive says. Return to New Steel home page.