Serving the 680 Corridor in Contra Costa, Alameda and
Solano counties/www.680BusinessJournal.com/Vol 1, No. 15;
December 2000
REPRINT from December 2000/Page 3
By MERLE ROSS
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1943, the Rosemond family started California Body and Trailer Manufacturing
Company in the South of Mission District in San Francisco. Now, after
nearly 60 years in the same location, the company is moving to Benicia.
"We've just outgrown the neighborhood. We need a much more industrial setting and a lot more space," says Matt Rosemond, who is general manager in conjunction with his father, Bruce Rosemond. After looking for some time for a new location, Cal Body has taken a 14-year lease on a 29,500sf structure at 105 West Channel in Benicia currently under lease to Bond Manufacturing. Cal Body will sublease for the first four years and then take over the lease. Larry Hazard of CRS in Walnut Creek arranged the agreement for the building owners, and Tom Fischer of the Sutherland Company represented Cal Body. Expansion opportunities When the company was founded by Matt Rosemond's grandfather, it made truck and trailer bodies. Thirty-five years ago it changed to job shop steel fabrication work and changed its name to Cal Body Steel Forming LLC. Today, the company performs mainly custom work, bending and forming steel to specifications of customers throughout the greater bay area and as far south as
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Fresno and Salinas. It also does
what Mr. Rosemond calls "affiliate production work" - job shop production
for some larger equipment manufacturers.. For instance, the company
manufactures components for telescopic conveyers for the packaging industry,
whose customers in turn sell to big name end users like Coca Cola and UPS.
Another major customer is Upright Harvester in Fresno, for which Cal Body
makes scissor-lift parts, though 70% of its labor is for the conveyer industry.
Mr. Rosemond anticipates being able to expand business opportunities for the company once the new facility is fully functional, probably by early 2001. He explains that the facility offers room for a crane and the ability to "unload large semis (trucks) of steel without adversely affecting the traffic or the parking situation," which will allow the company to seek out new customers. In addition, the new location will enable Cal Body to more easily distribute its product to the construction and manufacturing markets of the Central Valley and the Reno corridor. Cal Body has 20 employees, most of whom live in the east bay and will benefit from the move. "We are looking forward to the reverse commute," says Mr. Rosemond. For more information, call 415-861-0900.
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