What Cornpro Trailers does

Cornpro Trailers is a privately held US manufacturer of heavy-duty trailers operating from a single production facility in Elnora, Indiana, with a 35-year operating history. The company designs and builds approximately 20 trailer models organized into six categories — livestock (bumper-pull and gooseneck), utility, equipment (including split-deck tilt), flatbed (channel-frame and I-beam series), dump, and horse — using heavy-gauge steel construction (e.g., 7" channel frames, 10" I-beams, 3" channel cross members) and a reportedly proprietary paint system recognized by customers for durability. Manufacturing is done entirely in-house at the Elnora site; the company does not operate direct-to-consumer e-commerce and instead sells exclusively through a domestic authorized dealer network with multi-decade relationships such as Bennett Trailer and Zahm Trailer Sales.

The company monetizes exclusively through one-time hardware sales of complete trailers via its dealer channel, with quote-based pricing (no public list prices). End customers are predominantly SMB livestock professionals, ranchers, contractors, equipment haulers, and horse owners in the US — there is no enterprise/government contract base disclosed and no recurring revenue, financing, parts, or service revenue stream. Marketing is largely confined to the cornpro.com product catalog and dealer-locator; no social, paid digital, or content marketing channels are evidenced. TrailerFunnel is the disclosed web platform provider.

Strategically, Cornpro presents as a stable, low-velocity niche manufacturer with no disclosed funding rounds, M&A activity, leadership changes, geographic expansion, or technology platform investments. The operating model is intentionally narrow: domestic single-site production, dealer-only distribution, no software/AI layer, and a brand positioned on mechanical durability ('Where Strength Comes Standard'). The implication for capital-allocation audiences is a cash-generative, capital-light-in-marketing small industrial with limited visibility into growth drivers and meaningful concentration risk sitting in the dealer channel rather than at the end-consumer level.

Name

Cornpro Trailers

Legal name

CornPro Trailers

Website

https://cornprotrailers.com

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Cornpro Trailers is a privately held, Elnora, Indiana-based manufacturer of heavy-duty livestock, utility, equipment, flatbed, dump, and horse trailers sold exclusively through a US authorized dealer network, serving SMB ranchers, contractors, and horse owners.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Trailer Manufacturing

NAICS

Truck Trailer Manufacturing (336212)

SIC

Truck Trailers (3715)

akta.pro primary industry

Trailer Manufacturing (Utility/Enclosed/Flatbed/Car Hauler) (IMACAGAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Farm Transport & Hauling Equipment (Farm Trailers, Grain Carts, Wagons) (AFAAAAAD)

Keywords

• Livestock trailers
• Equipment trailers
• Flatbed trailers
• Dump trailers
• Horse trailers

Headquarters

HQ city

Elnora

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Trailer Sales: Corn Pro Trailers generates revenue through the manufacture and sale of trailers. The company sells complete trailers to customers through authorized dealer locations. Revenue is generated from one-time hardware/physical product purchases, with customization options available for different payload requirements.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

CornPro Trailers manufactures and sells heavy-duty trailers for livestock, equipment, utility, flatbed, dump, and horse transport applications. The company builds trailers with 7-inch channel frames, 10-inch I-beam construction, and 3-inch channel cross members, offering customization for different payload requirements. All trailers are produced at the company's manufacturing facility in Elnora, Indiana and distributed through a network of authorized dealers across the United States.

Product overview

CornPro Trailers is a manufacturer of tough, built-to-last trailers with a 35-year history of production in Elnora, Indiana. The company offers a comprehensive product portfolio spanning six main trailer categories: Livestock Trailers (including SB-S/SB-H Bumper Pull and SG-S/SG-H Gooseneck models for cattle and other animals), Utility Trailers (UT-LS single-axle, UT-SAT tilting, UT-L, and UT-CS for equipment transport), Equipment Trailers (UT-H heavy-duty, UT-HT split-deck tilt, UT-X, and UT-XT), Flatbed Trailers (C-Series with channel frame construction, I-Series Single-Tandem, I-Series Dual-Tandem, and POWER I-Series for the heaviest loads), Dump Trailers (DBSP/DBDP, DBS, and DBDO for commercial earth-moving and material hauling), and Horse Trailers (HTHS Horse Slant). The product line ranges from entry-level bumper pull models for hobbyists to heavy-duty commercial-grade trailers, with base models built to construction standards exceeding most competitor elite models.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• SB-S Bumper
• SB-H Bumper
• SG-S Gooseneck
• SG-H Gooseneck
• UT-LS
• UT-SAT
• UT-L
• UT-CS
• UT-H
• UT-HT Split-Deck Tilt
• UT-X
• UT-XT
• C-Series Flatbed
• I-Series Single-Tandem Flatbed
• I-Series Dual-Tandem Flatbed
• Power I-Series Flatbed
• DBSP/DBDP Dump Trailer
• DBS Dump Trailer
• DBDO Dump Trailer
• HTHS Horse Slant Trailer

Quantifiable outcome

• 35 years of manufacturing experience
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TrailerFunnelminorOEM/ Whitelabel/ Licensing PartnerTrailerFunnel is listed as the company that 'Built with care by TrailerFunnel' on the Corn Pro website footer. This appears to be a web development or platform provider relationship where TrailerFunnel provides the website infrastructure for Corn Pro's online presence.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Direct peers

• EBY Trailers: EBY is a US manufacturer of livestock and equipment trailers distributed through dealers, overlapping with CornPro in both livestock (SB/SG lines) and equipment/flatbed categories (UT/UT-H, I-Series). It is a comparable mid-market competitor with similar customization positioning.
• Titan Trailers: Titan manufactures heavy-duty equipment and flatbed trailers for construction, agricultural, and commercial buyers — directly competing with CornPro's UT-H, UT-X, UT-XT, and I-Series equipment lines through dealer distribution.
• Sundowner Trailers: Sundowner manufactures livestock and horse trailers sold through US dealers, directly competing with CornPro's livestock and equine product lines. It is a similarly sized specialty manufacturer with comparable dealer-distributed go-to-market.
• Load Trail: Load Trail manufactures utility, equipment, flatbed, and dump trailers sold through US dealers, directly competing with CornPro in the same heavy-duty construction segments. It targets the same professional and contractor buyer with comparable customization options.
• PJ Trailers: PJ Trailers manufactures utility and equipment trailers distributed through a US dealer network, with comparable product positioning in flatbed, dump, and equipment-hauling categories that overlap with CornPro's UT, I-Series, and DB product lines. It is a similarly sized mid-market competitor pursuing professional buyers with comparable specifications.
• Sooner Trailers: Sooner manufactures livestock, horse, and utility trailers sold through US dealers, with comparable product positioning to CornPro's SB and SG livestock lines. It is a similarly sized specialty competitor in the equine and livestock segments.
• Exiss / Exiss Aluminum Trailers: Exiss is a US manufacturer specializing in aluminum livestock and horse trailers distributed through dealers — directly overlapping CornPro's livestock and horse trailer categories (SB-S/SB-H, SG-S/SG-H, HTHS). It is one of the closest direct competitors in the livestock/equine segment.
• Delta Horse & Livestock Trailers: Delta specializes in aluminum livestock and horse trailers sold through US dealers, directly competing with CornPro in the livestock and horse categories. It is a similarly sized specialty manufacturer pursuing the same professional and show-animal buyers.

Broad incumbents

• Featherlite Trailers: Featherlite is a long-established, larger US trailer manufacturer (owned by Universal Trailer Corporation) with strong positions in livestock, horse, and utility trailers. It competes with CornPro in the same dealer-distributed channels and benefits from significantly greater scale and dealer reach.
• Big Tex Trailers: Big Tex is one of the largest US trailer manufacturers with broad product lines spanning utility, equipment, flatbed, and dump trailers — directly overlapping CornPro's core categories. It operates at far greater scale through multi-plant manufacturing and a national dealer network, making it the dominant broad incumbent CornPro competes against on price and SKU breadth.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cornprotrailers
• Facebookfacebook.com/CornProTrailers
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/corn-pro-inc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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