Your Operation
A century-old charcoal institution that is, underneath the brand, a heavy industrial manufacturer running plants around the clock across the country. Here is how we read the operation we would be building a program around.
A Heritage Institution
Born in 1920 from the partnership of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and Edward G. Kingsford, formally renamed Kingsford in 1951, and synonymous with American grilling ever since. A century-plus institution, and we treat it like one.
Heavy Industrial Manufacturing
Six-plus US facilities running around the clock on three shifts, processing wood waste and fir mulch into charcoal at industrial scale with 100% North American sourcing. This is heavy manufacturing, and the program has to reflect that.
A National Footprint
Manufacturing and retort facilities across Kentucky, Oregon, Missouri, West Virginia, and Mississippi, each located near local timber and wood-products sources, including the Springfield, Oregon plant drawing fir mulch from Pacific Northwest lumber mills. A distributed operation we know how to read.
Part of Clorox
A wholly-owned subsidiary of The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX), carrying the scale, the structure, and the standards that come with a publicly traded parent. We build the program to fit how the business is actually held.
Workers' Compensation
Crews run your plants around the clock, three shifts a day, working industrial equipment around heat and combustible material across facilities in multiple states. That is a demanding, multi-jurisdiction Workers' Comp picture, and it deserves a program built by people who understand heavy manufacturing, not a generalist's template.
Twenty-four-hour, three-shift operations with industrial equipment and heat carry a specific Workers' Comp profile. We build the program around how your plants actually run, and place it with carriers who underwrite heavy manufacturers.
Facilities across several states mean varying classification codes and jurisdictional rules. We coordinate the Workers' Comp program across all of them, so it reads as one account rather than a stack of separate state programs.
On a manufacturing floor, accurate classification and real loss control drive what you pay over time. We keep the codes clean and bring the safety and claims support that keeps a hands-on, high-heat workforce protected and the program defensible.
An account this large and this industrial deserves more than a single default placement. HUB's scale opens the heavy-manufacturing Workers' Comp markets that compete on loss control and experience.
Fleet & Transportation
Distributing charcoal and grilling products to national retailers means semi-truck transport of heavy cargo, plus inbound hauling of the raw material that feeds the plants. A fleet moving combustible product at this scale belongs in a program that reads it as transportation work, not a generic auto line.
Bulk product on semi-trucks across the country carries real severity. We place the fleet with carriers who underwrite transportation directly and structure limits for the load you actually move.
Raw material hauling into the plants and finished product hauling out both create fleet risk. We make sure the program follows the whole movement, not just one direction.
Driver qualification, safety programs, and motor-carrier compliance are what keep a fleet this size clean. We bring that discipline so underwriters have a reason to compete for the business.
HUB's market scale opens the specialty auto and trucking carriers a generalist cannot reach, so a national distribution fleet is placed on its merits.
Additional Coverages
Workers' Comp and the fleet lead, but a heavy manufacturer making combustible product at national scale needs the whole program coordinated, not placed in isolation. These are the lines we build around the core.
Six-plus manufacturing facilities run around the clock, processing combustible raw material at industrial scale. We build property and plant coverage for the buildings, the equipment, and the business-income reality of an operation where a single facility carries national weight.
Charcoal, lighter products, pellets, and accessories reach consumers nationwide through mass retail. We build product liability coverage that accounts for the scale of distribution and the nature of products made to burn, including the recall realities of a category-leading brand.
The Fit
An operation this large and this industrial deserves a broker who understands what it actually takes to insure heavy manufacturing at national scale. Here is why Team Haugen is built for an account like yours.
We place complex manufacturing accounts as a specialty, building programs around fire risk, equipment, supply chain, and round-the-clock operations. We understand heavy industrial accounts like yours, not just consumer brands.
With your Springfield plant sourcing fir mulch from Pacific Northwest lumber mills, there is a natural Oregon connection. Team Haugen is Oregon-rooted, and we know the regional manufacturing and timber economy firsthand.
Facilities and operations across several states call for a broker who coordinates multi-state programs as a matter of course. We keep coverage consistent and competitive across every jurisdiction you run in.
As a HUB International team, we bring national carrier relationships, specialty market access, and the resources of one of the largest brokerages in North America, delivered by a local team that answers the phone.
We do not just place policies, we help clients identify and stay ahead of emerging risk before it becomes a claim. For an operation this consequential, that forward perspective matters.
Your Team
The people who build and run your program. A team with deep manufacturing experience and the depth of a national broker behind it.
SVP, Commercial Lines / Team Haugen Lead
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Associate Advisor, Commercial Lines
Private Client Risk Advisor
Private Client Risk Advisor
Vice President, Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Claims Analyst
Insurance Adjuster
Client Services Advisor
CL Sr. Account Manager
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
CL Account Manager II
Sr. Risk Management Consultant
CL Account Manager
CL Account Manager
Bring us the operation as it actually runs: the plants, the shifts, the fleet, and the national footprint behind a century-old brand. We will show you what a coordinated program looks like across all of it, built by people who know manufacturing and know Oregon. Reach Logan Haugen and the team to start the conversation.
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