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Some pictures from Factory
Attachment 4533Attachment 4532Attachment 4531Attachment 4530Attachment 4529I have decided to start this post in a effort to show a little of what we at Everlast do and who we deal with not so much on a daily basis but i would say closer to a monthly basis.
And to perhaps dispel some preconcieved ideas .
First set of pictures are a couple of shots from the Factory that produce our MTS 160 and 200 welders. I do not have much in the way of dealings with this manufacturer as i am principally involved with our main line of Welders.
first set of photos are from the MTS MIG TIG STICK . My involvement was to basically assess the Manufacturing Enviroment and to arrange a couple of samples to be shipped for assesment. This facility is located in Shanghai in the Pudong area.
the first picture is actually a hight rise Condominium Gated Community with a electrified wire above the brick walls. This was across from my hotel.
Minnesota tried this..and failed! But..
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Powertig
These are great pics, I would love to see some from the main line plant with some green machines all sitting in a row. it's nice to see how clean and organized that factory is. Unfortunately, were all going to have get over the made in the USA thing, just wait till China is the largest economy in the world as they continue to import more and more from the USA and discriminate against some of our poor workmanship. I recently heard an NPR radio segment about a Chopstick company in the south, maybe Louisiana churning out over a million pairs a day to ship to China.
Minnesota tried the chopstick factory idea in the early '80s under former Gov. Rudy Perpich. He had a special envoy travel to china, made TONS of media hype over breaking the "great wall" (keep in mind that the cold war was still in full rage at the time), and how this chopstick factory was the first of many that would be built to supply china's "insatiable demand" for the straight, fine-grained, pine chopsticks that only Minnesota's forests could provide. They spent MILLIONS of taxpayer dollars building and promoting this factory, hoping to revive the economy of an area once dominated by the Iron mining industry, and at that point almost dead. The chopstick factory opened with great fanfare, and died a quick, quiet death. The "happily ever after" of the story is that more recently, China has been the driving force behind reviving this very area, as their demand for Iron ore has raised prices to the point that it's now practical and economically viable to revive the once-dormant mines of northern Minnesota. Output is approaching that to the heyday, people are back to work up there, and life is good. I point this out to anybody that bitches about Everlast being a primarily chinese made product, and how it costs American jobs. What a bunch of HOOEY! The fact is that there is no welder company that manufactures their product in the USA exclusively, that's right none! The big players make some of their lines here, and pimp out their global-supplied machines under the "American" umbrella, which is in my opinion, misleading. Everlast is an AMERICAN company, that employs American workers, and happens to have most of their product line produced over seas, just like them, only they don't hide the fact, and that honesty goes a long way in my book. LONG LIVE GLOBAL TRADE!!!!!! I will be posting a portion of this text in another thread, sorry for getting off-topic;)
