Clayton Homes Inc., the country's largest manufactured housing company, said it has also received a FEMA order, but did not specify an amount.
"This past Sunday we got the order from FEMA to ship 1,800 homes to a staging area outside Texarkana, Texas. And those homes began shipping immediately," Clayton spokesman Chris Nicely said Thursday.
Clayton is pulling homes off 370 of its 475 sales lots from Colorado to Delaware to meet the FEMA order, while negotiating to supply another 800 units from its 36 factories "almost immediately," Nicely said.
"We have examined our capacity and every one of our manufacturing facilities will be ramping up to meet the need," he said.
Nicely described the units as "single section, easily moved and easily set up" models intended to provide "short-term shelter and long-term housing solutions for the areas hardest hit by the hurricane."
Maryville, Tenn.-based Clayton, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, said it expects to make a profit on the deal, but it may be intentionally slim. |
