Some pictures from Factory

[Titan winch]

I 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.

[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.

[DaveO]

I missed the story on the air, but found it at their website:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/27/138761...ticks-to-china

A shipping container's worth every other day: 4 million chopsticks per container! Use once and discard seems wasteful, when talking about that scale. I seem to recall a different npr story about how the Chinese were trying to get used to the idea of re-useable chopsticks, restaurant-goers carrying their own reuseables, or something.

[KSmith]

Thank you for the pictures. I also would like to see some 'green'.

Making chopsticks of wood is silly and wasteful. Bamboo grows faster and doesn't absorb food (ie later bacteria) like wood does, easier to clean, so is better for reuse. I don't understand why china does not make their own with bamboo. I eat with bamboo chopsticks every day, wash and reuse.

[hooda]

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

[Titan winch]

Here are some pictures from our primary Manufacturer ( 99% of our product is with one Factory) I spend most of my time at this facility in fact i average about 3 1/2 months working there each year .
The majority of my time is not spent in areas such as this ( do not want to get the young lady,s all flustered with my presence LOL ) but more down on the production Floor and final testing dept.

[Joe from NY]

Yeah, let's see the production floor. I remember seeing a bunch of old photos of the south bend plant in the 1930s and seeing how the lathes were made was cool.

[Titan winch]

Yeah, let's see the production floor. I remember seeing a bunch of old photos of the south bend plant in the 1930s and seeing how the lathes were made was cool.

The first picture is Vanilla ( english name ) checking out a lathe. Vanilla sometimes helps me out if i need someone to translate for me if i am going to be traveling around a lot. She will normally take the time off work to go with me and keep me out of mischief.Her Boss Joe is the Owner of the Factory i work with for my 4x4 stuff so we have been friends for a few years now.
Second is Yan and if i need help talking to workers on the floor i normally ask her to help me . ( just finished her Masters in english She finds coming to the Factory and helping me very interesting
The Chinese Guy is head of the Testing Dept his name is Ding . Nice guy and i swear he knows more than the Design Engineers kmow .

[Powertig]

Now we are talking, I love these pics would still love to see more but I am not sure you could satisfy my curiosity no matter how may pics you put up.... Thanks for your input Hudda, what a neat story, I am glad we got back on topic, I was afraid I steered the thread over to chop sticks permanently.

[Jason]

Now we are talking, I love these pics would still love to see more but I am not sure you could satisfy my curiosity no matter how may pics you put up.... Thanks for your input Hudda, what a neat story, I am glad we got back on topic, I was afraid I steered the thread over to chop sticks permanently.

I agree.. I could look at these pics all day long.Thanks for sharing Titan Winch.

[zoama]

I agree.. I could look at these pics all day long.Thanks for sharing Titan Winch.

Same here.... more pics please, it's good for business.

[Jake98]

I keep looking at 'Vanilla', wondering how the heck she could keep you out of mischief..

[Titan winch]

First picture is the new dual voltage 185 and the 160 being checked after changes to add protection to the 110v side

Second pic shows unit for dialing in any voltage . amp in and out you set at. Including running duty Cycle this allows me to go through all breaker settings and get correct readouts .

Third is the new torch i used with testing the 250Ex and 256


Fourth is Jane. She is a real mother Hen with me but does not listen to anything i tell her . In this picture we took the afternoon off from the Winch Factory and decided to explore some of the dirt tracks in the country side. Because we where out of Town i drove . Jane kept on bugging me about wanting to drive into rice paddys . I kept teling her just because we had 4 wheel drive did not mean we where capable of doing heavy or even mild to medium off road use . The tires where street tires and not a lot of tread at that. Add to this it was just the 2 of us and i had no idea where we where this does not lend itself to just go off and take chances. We came to one spot that she really wanted to cross so i decided to walk it first to make sure. well as i was checkingh it out she jumps behind the wheel and the truck just sinks . No recovery gear nothing.
We managed to call the factory and they somehow found us a couple of hours later with enough recovery gear to get us out
Jane had a great time and wanted to go out the following day and do it all over again.

[zoama]

Jane sounds adventurous.

[Joe from NY]

I keep looking at 'Vanilla', wondering how the heck she could keep you out of mischief..

Yeah, for real. I could get into some real mischief with her...

[Joe from NY]

That one kind of reminds me of some old fashioned computer of 40 or 50 years ago.

[SeanMurphy265]

Are there other welders manufactured in the same plant?

[Mike J]

Yeah, for real. I could get into some real mischief with her...

She would break you - she knows welder-fu!

[67cudafb]

Jane sounds adventurous.

Ah to be young and dumb and fearless, I vaguely remember those days lol.

[Jake98]

She's not dumb, she has a masters. Probably wanted to get stuck in the rice paddy.. (where's that fire extinguisher when you need it?)