2,200 Employees 106 Years of operation Pierce Manufacturing Appleton, Wisconsin 1,000,000 Sq. ft. of total manufacturing space 6 Facilities 60,000 Vehicles on the road today EVERY BUILD IS UNIQUE When the goal is to build vehicles that save lives, you need to use quality parts and stay focused on the job. That’s exactly what Pierce Manufacturing does as the nation’s largest producer of fire apparatuses. Each unit that rolls down the assembly line is fully customized with equipment that can pump thousands of gallons of water per minute or extend a ladder 107 feet up to a building. In business for more than a century, the company is no stranger to growing and changing with the times. And today, with their fire and rescue vehicles in such high demand, they look for opportunities to speed up production and improve their supply chain. “One of the complexities of our product is we build custom. We can’t drill down every different nut and bolt that might be used on the truck because they’re different configurations. There’s constant flux of how this product is built until the customer comes in to accept it,” said Terry Walsdorf, an engineer of fire suppression systems for Pierce. To reach out to a Manufacturing Sales Specialist, please email manufacturing@fastenal.com.
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