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Element Electronics is closing |
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Post# 1003171   8/10/2018 at 06:47 (2,079 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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in South Carolina. Due to new tariff on parts from China. 126 job losses. If you want the story, Google it. |
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Post# 1003208 , Reply# 1   8/10/2018 at 17:19 (2,079 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City)   |   | |
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Post# 1003210 , Reply# 2   8/10/2018 at 17:30 (2,079 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)   |   | |
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I am saddened by Element closing.
I spent over 20 years working in the technical and engineering departments of two of the highest quality television manufacturers that you would know. These were Japanese companies as most American TV manufacturers were dying or dead by the time I got into the biz. I know of Element and I was rooting for them. Perhaps they were just an assembler of televisions. Many major brands do the same thing - import a "kit" and assemble it in the USA. Fine. However, I viewed them as a refreshing restart of television building in the USA. This administration effectively stomped out what little flame there was for TV manufacturing in the USA. It is regrettable that jobs were lost and a smaller player was hurt along the way. |
Post# 1003212 , Reply# 3   8/10/2018 at 18:08 (2,079 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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Post# 1003214 , Reply# 4   8/10/2018 at 18:20 (2,079 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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I deleted the above post because I forgot I wasn’t in the DL forum, and I’m glad I realized it right after I hit the post button. I aploogize to anyone that may have read it before I could delete it and been offended. I’ll keep my powder dry here on the Super forum in respect of the site rules.
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Post# 1003254 , Reply# 7   8/11/2018 at 01:34 (2,079 days old) by carmine (Detroit)   |   | |
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Thanks for the link. Excellent fill-in-the-blanks article. |
Post# 1003300 , Reply# 16   8/11/2018 at 11:55 (2,078 days old) by washman (o)   |   | |
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I thought with SC being a right-to-work-for-less-state that virtually ANY company could succeed. |
Post# 1003469 , Reply# 18   8/13/2018 at 03:52 (2,077 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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I did a bit of web shopping in Rome. I closed in on Google street view map of a mall near Rome, Italy. The same Weber Genesis grill which costs $449 here had a price tag on it for $499 Euro's. That's about the same price. Yes reading, and shopping is good. |
Post# 1003476 , Reply# 19   8/13/2018 at 05:05 (2,077 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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When I worked for Goldstar (aka LG) in Alabama we were just an assembler. ALL of our board components came from Korea...the boards were already assembled, just had to slide them in place and hook up the coil, the tube, and attach them to each other. We used Zenith, Philips, and I think RCA tubes back then. Then we made all the settings changes and locked them in. I believe the Huntsville, AL plant is now a service call center. |
Post# 1003477 , Reply# 20   8/13/2018 at 06:08 (2,076 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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they were still using some vacuum tubes when you worked there? You were born in 1971. Or do you mean microwave oven magnetron tubes? Samsung electronics is also Korean, and none of there small items come from Korea now either. |
Post# 1003571 , Reply# 23   8/13/2018 at 19:15 (2,076 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)   |   | |
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Post# 1003577 , Reply# 24   8/13/2018 at 19:36 (2,076 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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