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Tried & True

About to celebrate his one year “workiversary,” Austin Simanson, has felt like part of the Fratco family since the moment he was hired last summer.  He assumed he would feel …

Barn with silo on hill

With agriculture making up a large portion of plastic drainage pipe business, it is no surprise that the Farm Bill is hot news right now in the plastic pipe industry, …

Pullins

Hace más de seis décadas, un David Pullins de 25 años se arriesgó y fundó Pullins Drainage and Excavation, LLC. El negocio tuvo éxito y no pasó mucho tiempo antes de que el hijo de David, ...

Fratco pipe

The Plastics Pipe Institute (PPI) is a trade association that represents all the industries where plastic pipe is used. They are composed of many members that are involved in the …

Jerry Weiland

Fratco always has an eye on the horizon for what’s next, and one person on the front lines of the company’s careful expansion is Jerry Weiland: a Fratco sales rep …

From natural resources drawn out of the earth to highly engineered drainage buried underground, the supply chain acts as the circle of life for products like Fratco pipe. Let’s take …

farmers in corn field

Four generations of family-ownership have taught Fratco’s leadership a thing or two about doing business with your kin. Close relationships with dozens of contractors who also run family-owned businesses have …

vintage machinery placing pipe in field

Fratco believes that tomorrow belongs to those who build it, and we’re proud to be among the ranks of those who help move the industry forward every day. We also …

Jim Vantiger

Recuento de la vida y el legado del agricultor de Iowa, James "Jim" Vantiger, que construyó un exitoso negocio agrícola y de corretaje de granos, desempeñó un papel crucial en la expansión de Fratco a Iowa, y ...

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A century of service is defined by the people who provide it. For a multi-generational family business like Fratco, those people are a tight-knit yet ever-growing group. They’re bound together …