Business View Magazine | March 2019

AT A GLANCE SUPERIOR WALL SYSTEMS INC. WHAT: A manufacturer of prefabricated building components WHERE: Fullerton, California WEBSITE: www.superiorwallsystems.com 147 Smith believes that one of the company’s competitive advantages is its location and geographic footprint. “Currently, we’re the only prefabricated panel shop in Southern California,” he notes. “There are a couple of others – one is located in Phoenix, Arizona; there’s another one located in the Reno/Lake Tahoe area of Nevada; and there’s also a panel company in Tennessee and one in Texas. So to service the California area, those guys would have to palletize their stuff and get it on a truck, and when you’re trucking a panel, you’re mostly trucking air. You’ve got a lot of open air between the studs; it’s not a solid, monolithic panel. And you’re only able to get, maybe, six panels on a truck. When you’ve got a proj- ect going full bore, having to facilitate those panels and having to get them onsite where they’re probably swinging eight to ten panels a day, that’s a long distance to be driving panels to service that project. Being in Southern Cali- fornia, we’re probably no more than 25 miles away from where the project’s being erected, so that gives us an advantage right off the bat.