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Forest River Utilizes Lippert Components Product for New Units
Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through Lippert Components' website.
ELKHART, Ind. — Lippert Components, Inc. (LCI) announces today that Forest River is adopting LCI’s Next Generation Upper Deck chassis design and Rhino Box pin box on certain 2020 fifth-wheel brands, which include Sierra, Sandpiper, and Cedar Creek. “This project brings together so many important aspects for the consumer. The Next Generation Upper Deck on these 2020 models has allowed us to create several new and innovative floorplans which we believe will really appeal to the consumer. It’s a win-win, both for the RV industry and for the consumers,” said Curtis Gunter, General Manager at Forest River, in a press release.
LCI’s patent pending Next Generation Upper Deck was developed to give the fifth-wheel additional floor space and to minimize the large step commonly seen in front of cabinetry or inside of walk-in closets in today’s fifth-wheels. This new chassis design utilizes a much larger and more robust front beam, so the rear beam behind the pin box is no longer needed. By looking at the load paths in a new and innovative way, LCI’s Chassis R&D team was able to minimize localized areas of stress and tension and create a design which distributes the stress throughout a much larger area of the pin box side plate and front tube.
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