Taxa Outdoors moved into a factory more than triple the size of its previous Heights location to meet a surge in demand for trailer campers spurred by COVID-19.
The company, which has a backlog of 650 units, has capacity to make 3,000 units annually at the nearly 70,000-square-foot headquarters at 7930 Blankenship Drive near U.S. 290 and Loop 610.
CEO Garrett Finney, who previously worked on the design of a Habitation Module for the International Space Station as a senior architect for NASA, put his knowledge to work to develop “camping machines” with the essentials for exploring the outdoors.
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