Georgia Manufacturer Going “Greener,

Safer, Smarter”

byMattWilbanks,SrMarketingRepresentative

The Labrie Environmental Group is a worldwide leading manufacturer of equipment for the solid waste industry. Since 1971 they have been manufacturing waste hauling trucks. The manufacturer with operations in Canada, Arizona, Wisconsin, and LaFayette, Georgia, is living up to its new slogan calling for “Greener, Safer, Smarter” and more efficient equipment, with the addition of compressed natural gas (CNG) refuse trucks to its fleet production In early 2023, Labrie began producing CNG garbage trucks at its LaFayette plant The company produces 10 CNG trucks per day Each truck will be filled with roughly a 1/4 tank of CNG and then shipped abroad Both CNG and diesel trucks are produced at the Georgia facility

The City of Lafayette extended their gas main to reach the Labrie plant to better serve their customer and the local community.

Labrie Environmental Group’s clientele ranges from small to large, private entrepreneurs in the waste hauling sector to national waste management service providers, and counts hundreds of small towns and counties, as well as major municipalities and cities in its customer base