Batesville, Indiana

I had the privilege of spending Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday in Indiana. Batesville Casket Company was generous enough to send me to Batesville, Indiana for a customer relations trip. While there, we toured one of their three manufacturing facilities. At the beginning of the nearly 400,000 square foot facility, caskets started out as a roll of flattened steel. By the time we reached the opposite end of the facility, complete caskets were being strategically loaded on trucks in an automated fashion. A casket comes off the line every 58 seconds, between all three manufacturing facilities, that manufacture roughly 3300 caskets per day.

While there we stayed at the JAWACADH farm. JAWACADH are the initials of the original Hillenbrand family children. It’s a beautiful 127-acre farm setting, deep in the rolling hills of Indiana full of cottages and beautiful landscaping.


To say the least, I have a new found appreciation for caskets.