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Cruiser RV To Introduce New Travel Trailer Cruiser RV announced plans in 2020 to unveil the Hitch, an ultralight travel trailer “equipped with unique features for today’s adventurous camper,” according…

National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2021 January 18: Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr. April 17: First day of National Park Week August 4: One year anniversary of the Great American Outdoors Act August…

Dometic Renews Care Camps Partnership Nature, John Muir once said, is a place that heals, and gives strength to the body and soul. Anyone who has ever pulled into a…

German RV Trade Show Draws 107,000 In 2019, a record-setting 268,000 people attended Caravan Salon Dusseldorf, which has been marketed as the world’s largest trade fair for RVs. For the…

Quartzsite RV Show To Proceed, With Precautions If all goes as planned, RVers will converge on the Arizona desert for the 2021 Quartzsite Sports, Vacation & RV Show, set for…

RV Tech Institute Creates Gary Bunzer Memorial Scholarship The RV Technical Institute (RVTI) is establishing the Gary Bunzer Memorial Scholarship in honor of the “RV Doctor,” who devoted much of…

Ill Youngsters Are Granted Wishes For RVs RV industry companies recently teamed up with Make-A-Wish to grant the wishes of two young children who can now go camping with their…

Gear, Gadgets, And Gifts Practical accessories and assorted goods designed to make life easier and more enjoyable for RVers. By John Johnston, Associate Editor RV Mat An RV patio mat…

Battle Born Joins Care Camps Effort Care Camps has a new partner, Battle Born Industries. The company, which makes lithium-ion batteries and energy storage products, donated $10,000 to the nonprofit…

RVers Are Encouraged To Follow Campground Etiquette As the threat from COVID-19 lessens, throngs of RVers are expected to fill campgrounds in national parks and elsewhere. That means it will…

RV Country Opens New Service Center RV Country has opened a new state-of-the-art service center in Fresno, California, to replace a facility destroyed in a 2018 blaze. The expanded service…

RV Industry Provides Assistance During Coronavirus Crisis As the number of coronavirus cases and deaths from COVID-19 rose sharply in the United States and Canada in late March 2020, the…

Winnebago Unveils Travel Trailer, Launches New Website Winnebago’s Hike travel trailer has made its debut. It can sleep three or four, depending on which of the five floor plans is…

Texas RV Dealer Collects Teddy Bears For Children An RV dealer with three locations in Texas, PPL Motor Homes, collected more than 450 teddy bears during its annual Cuddles for…

Outdoor Recreation Helps Drive U.S. Economy The outdoor recreation industry is growing faster than the U.S. economy as a whole, according to a federal report. Data released in September 2019…

National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2020 The National Park Service will waive entrance fees at all national parks on these days in 2020: January 20: Martin Luther King Jr.…

Students Tour RV-Industry Factories For Manufacturing Day RV industry manufacturers Spartan Motors Inc. and Lippert Components Inc. (LCI) were among companies that hosted students for events related to Manufacturing Day…

Keystone RV Marks Production Of 1 Millionth RV Keystone RV Company shipped its 1 millionth RV — a Montana 3761FL fifth-wheel — on August 29, 2019. The milestone was celebrated…

RV Resort Operator Starts Program To Save Honeybees RVC Outdoor Destinations has launched the BEECause program to help save declining populations of the honeybee, which is an important pollinator for…

Tents For Troops Founder Dies Charlie Curry, founder of the nonprofit Tents for Troops program and owner of Toutle River RV Resort in Castle Rock, Washington, died in June 2019…

Fantasy RV Tours Rally Donates To Make-A-Wish The Fantasy RV Tours 10th Reunion Rally, held in April 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee, raised $31,030 for Make-A-Wish Middle Tennessee. The donations will…

Thor And KOA Join Forces On Trash Removal Thor Industries Inc. and Kampgrounds of America (KOA) have partnered on a program called Pick Up America. The campaign’s first initiative encourages…

Winnebago Partners With National Park Foundation Winnebago Industries in March 2019 announced a multiyear partnership with the National Park Foundation in support of Find Your Park. The public awareness campaign…

Thor’s Erwin Hymer Purchase Excludes North American Unit Thor Industries Inc. completed its acquisition of Erwin Hymer Group (EHG) on February 1, 2019. The deal created the world’s largest RV…

Ron Lee Was Integral Part Of Country Coach’s Success Ron Lee, who helped grow Country Coach into one of the top luxury motorhome manufacturers, died January 19, 2019. He was…

Eagle One Lands At RV/MH Hall Of Fame And Museum The owner of a 2006 Forest River Georgetown motorhome has donated the vehicle to the RV/MH Hall of Fame and…

Jayco Introduces Residential Showers In Fifth-Wheels Several of Jayco’s 2019 fifth-wheel models are equipped with an amenity that company officials say is a first for towable RVs — oversized, residential…

National Parks Set Fee-Free Days For 2019 The National Park Service will waive all entrance fees on these days in 2019: *January 21: Martin Luther King Jr. Day *April 20:…

Beverly Gardner Made Mark In RV Publishing Beverly Gardner, whose long career as an RV industry publisher’s representative included selling advertising for FMCA’s magazine, died of ALS on October 23,…

Winnebago’s Micro Minnie Fifth-Wheel Debuts Winnebago Towables has introduced the Micro Minnie fifth-wheel. It will be available January 1, 2019, in five floor plans, each weighing less than 6,000 pounds.…

Adventure LP’S Limited-Edition Truck Camper Debuts Erdman Epp, the founder of Adventurer LP, died July 28, 2018, just as the Yakima, Washington-based company began a production run of its 50th…

Newmar Motorhome Featured At White House Made In America Event President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, and other administration officials toured a 2019 Newmar London Aire diesel motorhome on…

Bowlus Road Chief LLC Offers Two Trailer Models This past February, a Bowlus Road Chief travel trailer appeared in a Super Bowl TV ad for website builder Squarespace. As a…

Furrion Offers Tours Of New Showroom Furrion, a maker of electronics, appliances, and energy products for RVs and other industries, has opened a new showroom at its Innovation Center and…

National Parks Price Increase Takes Effect The National Park Service has increased the entrance fees to most of the national parks that charge admission. Most parks planned to implement the…

Taxa Outdoors Unveils Mantis Trailer Taxa Outdoors Inc.’s newest travel trailer is the 18-foot Mantis. The RV sleeps up to four adults and weighs 2,800 pounds (unloaded). The trailer folds…

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Dometic Produces Record Number Of Refrigerators

In June 2017, Dometic’s Industrial Parkway facility in Elkhart, Indiana, made 18,069 refrigerators for use in RVs and other mobile applications, setting a new production record. It marked the second time in 2017 that Dometic broke the record for number of units produced in a month. The previous record, set in March 2017, was 17,481 units. Before that, the record was 16,544 refrigerators produced in March 2016.

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