2025 - a quarter of a Century
Wot, another quarter of a Century nearly done and dusted. Time flies quicker and quicker. Doesn't seem long ago we were all worrying about the Millenium Bug ending our computers abilities to function. Now it seems Trump, Putin, Xi & Reeves are all competing to end our lives in some sort of misery or other. That said we are drawing to the end of another good year. Sales have been good. Competition is high and challenging. But we love good competition .....
nothing knocks you out of the same old same old patterns more than having to duck and dive and compete. Fruehauf has risen from the ashes of another bankruptcy yet again and is pushing - ---- but yet again for the 5th year running STASand Newton is outpacing them in the UK market as a bulk brand. I think we are at peak Fruehauf and STAS will go again. STAS are now recognised as the most stable tipper in Europe having achieved both Class A IRTE as tilt tested on the only tilt test bed left in Europe - not only that they achieved the even harder DIN standard - and feedback from the market from customers who have recently taken both products is that STAS is the better trailer. So anecdotally and numerically STAS is moving forwards. We think that 2026 will lift again for STAS and for Newton. Now that is another quarter century I am looking forwards to.....
Posted by Andrew on 21/11/2025
