Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « on: September 16, 2010, 10:27:14 AM » Author: Silverliner
GE is closing down its last A-19 lamp assembly plant in Winchester, VA. The last manufacture date is September 24 th. The Canadian plant is also closing on the same date. Operations are going to Mexico, at the loss of 200 American jobs and an unknown number of Canadian jobs. Its a sad ending. In recent months I have been seeing an increase of GE bulbs made in Mexico and even some from China. The GE A21 bulbs (150w and 200w) started coming from China rather than Canada recently and they look cheaply made! The ones from Mexico don't seem to have any compromised qualities though.
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #2 on: September 16, 2010, 09:17:56 PM » Author: DieselNut
Disgusting.  Anytime the government interferes with the free market, this is exactly what happens. I am not at all a fan of incandescent and am not really a fan of the modern compact fluorescents either, but the damn free market ought to dictate what is manufactured.  Our country makes NOTHING here that was INVENTED here!  Radios, televisions, fluorescent lights, incandescent lights, tractors, pickup trucks, telephones, computers, power tools....yep, all chinese or other imported junk now.
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #4 on: September 21, 2010, 03:06:37 PM » Author: Silverliner
Sylvania is even turning its US factory into a halogen energy saver factory. No, there are no CFLs made in the USA, not even PLs.
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #6 on: September 23, 2010, 08:14:55 PM » Author: rjluna2
That is sad I just saw the segment on NBC World News tonight.  What in the world has come?  We are now dealing with new set of pollution, perhaps more toxic pollution to make and dispose CFL's! Yes, I know that it add insult to injury that the third world will make crappy incadescent bulb that would add more pollution due to it's quality issues.
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #11 on: September 25, 2010, 01:41:54 AM » Author: Silverliner
It happened officially, it was annouced that the Winchester Lamp Plant has now ceased operations. Some of the machinery will be moved to Mexico. Workers entered the plant today saying goodbye to each other and picked up their personal belongings and tools before leaving the plant for the last time. GE cited overcapacity as the main reason for the closing, as sales of incandescent bulbs are way down compared to five years ago. The factory in Mexico can now fill in the rest of the orders. Here in California, about 40% of porch lights lit at night have CFLs. Sylvania still hasn't said if their St Marys plant will close, their current focus is retooling it for the Halogen SuperSaver bulb. But how long will it last? The LED market is said to be going to be huge. Although I have not been too impressed with most LEds I have seen so far.
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #13 on: September 25, 2010, 06:01:06 PM » Author: RCM442
LEDs and CFLs in my opinion are junk! and it's sad that many people lost there jobs because of GE! I have actually stopped buying GE bulbs!
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	Re: Its all over for GE making incandescent household bulbs in the USA « Reply #14 on: September 26, 2010, 12:56:49 AM » Author: xmaslightguy
Quote from: RCM442 on September 25, 2010, 06:01:06 PM LEDs and CFLs in my opinion are junk! true LOL but if that's what we'll have for bulbs i'd rather see them made here in the US
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