– Dump truck bed designer and provider Truck Engineering Ltd. announced it will expand its design and manufacturing operations in Ft. Wayne, Ind., creating 28 new jobs by 2011.  

The company, which designs and manufactures stainless steel dump truck bodies for defense and municipal services markets, will invest more than $1.1 million to upgrade production equipment and capacity at its existing 30,000-square-foot manufacturing and headquarters operation on the south side of the northeast Indiana city.  

“

continues to outrun our Midwestern competitors for new job-creating investment from companies like Truck Engineering. Home-grown successes like this further strengthens

’s economy and creates new opportunities for Hoosiers,” said Governor Mitch Daniels.  

Founded in 1924, Truck Engineering employs 23 associates at its

headquarters and will begin hiring additional design and manufacturing associates this fall ahead of the completion of facility upgrades in 2009.  

“We are pleased that our business has grown to the point of needing this additional capacity,” said Clinton Wall, president & chief executive officer of Truck Engineering. “Not only will we be able to service existing customers more efficiently, the upgrades we have planned will allow us to go after new business to help grow our customer base.”  

The Indiana Economic Development Corporation offered Truck Engineering up to $150,000 in performance-based tax credits and $32,500 in training grants based on the company’s job creation plans. The City of

will consider property tax abatement at the request of the Fort Wayne-Allen County Economic Development Alliance.