An RV manufacturer is moving its headquarters to Peru, Ind., and hiring 250 people to start building motorhomes from its facility on U.S. 31.
Chinook Motor Coach has operated a motorhome manufacturing facility since 2017 in Elkhart, where the company is headquartered.
In November 2018, the company purchased Riverside Travel Trailer in Peru, which included 17 acres and around 130,000-square-feet of manufacturing space near the intersection of U.S. 31 and U.S. 24. Chinook started producing toy hauler trailers and loft trailers from that location, which currently employs around 30 workers.
Now, the company is moving its entire manufacturing and business operations to the Peru location and hiring 250 more workers to make all its products from one campus.
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Jeff Butler, Chinook’s general manager of plant production, said crews are currently renovating a 65,000-square-foot facility at the Peru site that will house the motorhome production line. He said work is nearly complete, and the company aims to start producing the RVs in around a month.
“We felt like this move made a lot of sense, so here we are,” Butler said. “We’re spreading the word and trying to hire people quickly.”
