Wilson Trailer

Production Plant Expansion | Yankton, SD

West Plains has supported Wilson Trailer on more than a half dozen renovations and additions to its manufacturing plants over the course of the past decade. With two of it’s six company-wide plants located in South Dakota, Wilson has a large industrial presence in this region.

In 2014, our Sioux Falls team worked with Wilson’s Yankton plant to provide mechanical and electrical design for a 35,000 square foot addition aimed at not only providing more space but making that space better fit the manufacturing workflow.

The mechanical design of the project involved providing new roof top units to heat and cool the addition, as well as new units to heat and cool the existing plant. The project also included providing air scrubbing units to keep the air in the plant clear of welding fumes. This is essential to companies like Wilson, that use an extensive welding process to manufacture their products, which heavily impacts worker safety. Prolonged exposure to welding fumes can cause health problems – from infections to an increased risk of lung damage and several types of cancer.

The entire HVAC system, new and existing equipment, is controlled through a state-of-the-art building automation system to maximize energy savings while keeping the plant air clean.

The electrical design of the project required an additional electrical service for the expansion, as well as to feed the new air conditioning loads for the existing building. Production equipment for the new line included both new equipment, and relocated existing equipment for re-working the existing workflow in the plant and making the process more efficient.e.