You're funny! Your disagreement with presented facts or premises based on available information can be refuted with your opinions and/or friends' limited knowledge rather than news releases, photos, or company statements.
The 2003 news release of the closing of the Bristol factory accurate, or it would have long ago been retracted or redacted.
Where is your proof that TriStars were manufactured - not just assembled - at Bristol? I found no online verification of this.
The other site in West Virginia where the Lux Classic and Lux Legacy tank parts are manufactured must be an outsourced company's plant; just as I suspected all along. AP Science Group LLC's plants are in Bristol, VA and Greenville, TN; along with a distribution plant in Piney Flats, TN according to its webs
