Made in the USA ?

[gsheen]

What makes of vacuum are still made in the USA

I used to have a Eureka Ultra smart vac ( badged as Electrolux here ) which was a lovely machine made in the USA, I used to follow all the manufacturers closely but over the last 5-6 years have not had much time unless I dealt directly with them.

I know that Hoover and Royal were bought by TTIis this a chinese owned firm ?

Does Eureka still manufacture in the states.

Most vacuum assembly lines here have close too, Electrolux manufactures one locally designed shopvac model here using a panasoni owned factory and hoover shut down thier huge assembily plant years ago.

I remember when Electrolux used to exports from our local factory not import


My youngest son using the smart vac about 2 years ago

 

[eurekaprince]

I think some of Eureka's bagged uprights (including the SmartVac) and the Sanitaire uprights are made in Mexico. Electrolux moved all manufacturing of Eurekas and Sanitaires from Bloomington in Illinois to Juarez, Mexico on the border with the USA. It's possible that the long-running Eureka Mighty Mite compact canister is also now made in Mexico. Owners just have to look at the nameplate on their vacs to see where they were made.

But beyond those long-running designs, any vac labelled Eureka now is coming from an Electrolux-owned plant in China. There may be some Electrolux canisters made in the plant in Hungary which are labelled Eureka - not sure.

 

[gsheen]

Hi the Electrolux/ Eureka plant in china is NOT Electrolux owned but a comapny called KING CLEAN, they also manufacture machines for morphy richards , russel hobbs and a few other company's, Electrolux/ eureka also buys designs from other chinese companys and badges them as their own for other machines.This is mainly for canister machines , The uprights are still all designed in the USA

I got a chance to tour it a while ago.
very impressive

The Whirlwind is the only Eureka cansiter made in Hungry but the new Electrolux models all come from Hungry

 

[kirbysthebest]

With my limited knowledge, I do know the following are made in the US, or at least assembled in the US with "globally sourced parts".

Kirby
Oreck
Riccar/Simplicity
I'm pretty sure Rainbow
Not positive on Filter Queen

 

[gsheen]

What about Royal the metal ones are they still made their.

Gareth

 

[williamr1248]

Made in USA?

Every piece I have touched on my new Rainbow clearly is marked MADE IN USA. I just checked and even the instruction book is marked on the back "printed in USA".
What I have checked the dollt,water pan,outside of machine,attachments,hose,power nozzle and even Aquamate is marked in 3 places on the bottom "MADE IN USA". You sure don't see that very much anymore.
Not sure of the switched reluctance motor but I would assume that same since they were the first to use this type of motor in a vacuum cleaner ,they produce it themselves.

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Made in the USA

Filter Queen
Aerus
Royal Metal is made in China.
I was a dealer for Royal and they moved production to China around 2003 .
Dan

 

[gsheen]

Royal

Hi Dan always great to hear from you

arg that suc ( no pun intended )

If you were a Royal dealer , what do you do now

 

[kirbyloverdan]

I am

a Realtor . The Vacuum shop I owned I closed because people in my area here in South Jersey
do not care about quality long lasting vacuums they would rater go to Walmart and buy a $35.00 dirtdevil then buy Quality.

 

[normvac]

Filter Queen

I had heard something about Filter Queen having some sort of operations in Cleveland in recent years. Does anyone know if so and what kind of operations.
Thought maybe since Royal took a leave from Highland Hieghts in S. cleveland. F Q
may have picked up on some of the space that Royal left behind. Then Cleveland area has a lot of space options.
Is there any trut to it and if so where and what is going on there ?
thanks
Norm

 

[gsheen]

Dan

Same problem here in SA , domestic workers are still apart of every day life here and no one wants to buy an expensive vacuum when the domestic will break it unfortunetly they just don't seem to understand its not the domestic that breaks the machine , give them something decent to work with and it will last

Gareth

 

[normvac]

Filter Queen

I had heard something about Filter Queen having some sort of operations in Cleveland in recent years. Does anyone know if so and what kind of operations.
Thought maybe since Royal took a leave from Highland Hieghts in S. cleveland. F Q
may have picked up on some of the space the Royal left behind. Then Cleveland area has a lot of space options.
Is there any truch and if so where and what is going on there ?
thanks
Norm

 

[gsheen]

When Electrolux Cape Town was busy moving to an new office block I went thru to stand in the old factory , It was strange I could remember all the smells and sounds , I even went up to my old office and remember a huge fight I had with a fellow designer over an electrolux motor choice. It was so sad to see it all gone

There are allot of empty old vacuum factory's in the western world.

Now that is heart breaking

 

[tazcatsdad]

Filter Queen in Ohio

<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Norm,</span>


 


<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">While I don't know the entire story, I can tell you that Filter Queen does have a facility in Strongsville, OH (a suburb of Cleveland) which according to their website is their World Headquarters.  Whether or not any manufacturing is done at that location is unknown: in fact, I would say that there probably isn't given what the building itself looks like in person.</span>


 


<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Attached here is one of a few pictures I took of the building when I was in Strongsville on vacation in June, 2009.</span>


 


<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms,geneva;">Bill W.</span>

 

[gsheen]

empty vacuum factory's

When Electrolux SA closed its manufacturing plant here and moved into an Office bolock I went round to collect a few things.
It was very sad to be standing in an empty factory , As I stood there I could almost smell all the factory smels and hear the machines. I went to the empty test lab and remember blowing up prototypes and my office which i shard with many other designers and remember all the fights and laughs we had.

It was very said to see it al go to china

There are many empty vacuum factory's in the western world I suppose

Below an almost empty factory

 

[gsheen]

Below is the test room with a few test rigs still in place but every thing else gone

 

[henry200]

Gareth, that must have been very hard to see the factory where you worked empty and abandoned like that.  What a shame it is to see so much domestic manufacturing operations closing down, whether in the States or South Africa.  On a happy note, that son of yours looks a bright young lad, and very happily demonstrating that Eureka!

 

[gsheen]

Hi Neil

It was not a very nice feeling.
I had left a few years earlier when production started scaling down, at one stage we in SA had over 20 of our own designs on the market but asthings became cheaper to import a number of us were retrenched.

My Dad phoned Electrolux and organised a tour of the factory for me when I was 11 and I had dreamt of working there ever since , I got my first job on the assembly line during school holidays when I was 16 and later worked there every school holiday after that. It was during this time I became involved with prototype work and then whent into designing.

Its a terrible thing to see any factory close, massive job loss and a sence of pride gone aswell.

I suppose many people lost their jobs when TTI closed production in the USA for hoover too

On the up side my son in the picture Is Anthony he is my younger son now 7 and he is a carbon copy of me , bloody naughty too, I wonder where he gets that from.

 

[godfreys_guy]

Gareth,

read my rant on the 'off topic' forum.

I had a mental snap at a person at a hardware shop over a USA made chainsaw

Made in USA doesn&#92t equal german quality in my opinion but it is leaps and bounds ahead of China/Vietnam/India manufacturing - I would say it equals the Koreans, look at the quality of their cars and appliances.. very good