cheesewonton
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I e-mailed Aerus to ask about the March 2003 plant closure article in that newspaper article. When / if I hear back I'll report whatever they tell me. I also asked about their current production.
Electrolux vacuums to become extinct?
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vacerator
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I found the Eureka Europa model number is #6998. It's the Electrolux Excellio. JC Penney sold the Excalibur canister by Volta I remember in the catalogue. The side bumper rose up on an angle front to back.
cheesewonton
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I have one of those Excalibur Megas in dark green. Weirdly made but interesting and nice to use vacuum. I can use it with the longer Swedish Electrolux hose from something like my D795 and use it with a Ze3 power nozzle, which is very quiet. Much nicer to use it that way than with that noisy old Eureka power nozzle. In Europe I think you could buy them with an EBK280 power nozzle.
cheesewonton
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Paul, I have not heard back from Aerus yet and wouldn't expect anything till later next week at least but I did find an article that I think came from the Bristol newspaper by a, cough cough, journalist named Lewis Loflin who wrote:
"By 2003 Electrolux was shuttering its Bristol plant claiming a lack of qualified workers. At one time they employed between 500 to 1000 workers depending who one asks. The Swedish owned company was sending the jobs to Mexico and about the same time shipped 2700 jobs from Greenville, Mich. to Mexico as well. But that wasn't the end of this dirty dealing in Tennessee."
I will post a link to the article but I think you can see the guy is confusing American owned Electrolux LLC with Electrolux AB of Sweden. He does that throughout the article while making wild claims about both. I have my doubts about the veracity of what he wrote.
And this does not surprise me. I spent a good long career after my active duty time as a Naval Aviator working in the weapons world on weapons programs you certainly have heard of like Sidewinder, Maverick and Tomahawk, and some most have never heard of like LRASM ( had the pleasure of working with DARPA on that one ) and JAGM with the Army, along with some really interesting aircraft procurement / modification and depot capitalization projects. But often we would read things written by the notionally professional journalists in the defense press in on-line journals like Defense News, Defense Industry Daily, Naval News, Naval Institute Press and the like and end up scratching our heads wondering where the author of the article got their information from because the article was full of nonsense? The articles had us doing stuff that just wasn't happening, or they had claims about contracts that didn't exist. So I am not inclined to believe everything this guys claims until I hear something back from Aerus. It is clear he has the two Electroluxes mixed up.
https://www.sullivan-county.com/z/electrolux.htm
"By 2003 Electrolux was shuttering its Bristol plant claiming a lack of qualified workers. At one time they employed between 500 to 1000 workers depending who one asks. The Swedish owned company was sending the jobs to Mexico and about the same time shipped 2700 jobs from Greenville, Mich. to Mexico as well. But that wasn't the end of this dirty dealing in Tennessee."
I will post a link to the article but I think you can see the guy is confusing American owned Electrolux LLC with Electrolux AB of Sweden. He does that throughout the article while making wild claims about both. I have my doubts about the veracity of what he wrote.
And this does not surprise me. I spent a good long career after my active duty time as a Naval Aviator working in the weapons world on weapons programs you certainly have heard of like Sidewinder, Maverick and Tomahawk, and some most have never heard of like LRASM ( had the pleasure of working with DARPA on that one ) and JAGM with the Army, along with some really interesting aircraft procurement / modification and depot capitalization projects. But often we would read things written by the notionally professional journalists in the defense press in on-line journals like Defense News, Defense Industry Daily, Naval News, Naval Institute Press and the like and end up scratching our heads wondering where the author of the article got their information from because the article was full of nonsense? The articles had us doing stuff that just wasn't happening, or they had claims about contracts that didn't exist. So I am not inclined to believe everything this guys claims until I hear something back from Aerus. It is clear he has the two Electroluxes mixed up.
https://www.sullivan-county.com/z/electrolux.htm
The American Electrolux/Aerus company may be fading into history. However, it is important to remember that the original Swedish Electrolux company (which gave birth to the American Electrolux company) is still in operation and sells vacuum cleaners under the Electrolux and AEG brandnames all over the world, including Europe, the UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. Only the North American branches of Electrolux AB have been closed. Here is an example of one of the newest Electrolux canister vacuums available in Europe: https://renowoutlet.com/products/el...9HZiZsntht_3CrTa0dv87Ro-Jo0bDwpCqsx42iDQqjBOj
vacerator
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That looks like an Ultra One! Where is the current Aerus assembly plant? Bristol Virginia? Wasn't it in Texas? I thought all the former posts were referencing it, bit it was Bristol Ct. which was the old original plant, in Old Greenwich.
eluxfan71
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cheesewonton
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The original factory in Greenwich CT was closed in the late 1980s or maybe very early 1990s. The debate on this thread is over where the Legacy and Classic are made today. Some here maintain, and a crazy newspaper article seems to back the claim that Aerus closed the Bristol VA plant in 2003 and subcontracted vacuum production to Eureka at their plant in Juarez Mexico. Yet I have an Aerus dealer who claims he was in the Bristol VA plant in August 2024 (just a year ago) and saw new Classic and Legacy models being assembled there with plastic parts molded in West Virginia, hoses from South Carolina ( which makes sense as that would be the home of Flexible Technologies ) and attachments produced in the Bristol plant.
Hard to say what the truth is though I have no reason to doubt my friend Trent. I sent an e-mail to Aerus asking about this but have low hopes. A few years ago I called them and asked a question about the Tristars they sell in Japan. I wanted to know what motor they use and about what appears to be a big suppressor inside. I have a half dozen Japan market 100 volt Tristars of different vintages. The people at Aerus told me they didn't make Tristar vacuums for Japan ! 40% of Tristar production went to Japan and they are different than US models but the knuckleheads answering the phones at Aerus didn't even know they were making them for Japan. So I have low expectations for an answer from Aerus.
Considering Electrolux Group of Sweden sold Eureka in 2018 and sold Sanitaire, which was still making a couple of their vacuums in Mexico, in 2019 I suspect that former Eureka plant in Mexico is no more. Newer examples of the Sanitare models I know of that were being made in Mexico like the Mighty Mite now say Made in Vietnam. It could be that Aerus shipped the tooling from Mexico back to Bristol and resumed making them there.
vacerator
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First, I thank you for your military service to our country. I'm also grateful for the link to the news article that corroborates the information in the article I posted.
I'm sure you could write a book about all your experiences - sounds fascinating!
How unfortunate that Fake News misrepresented your work. I also see why you compared that to the Electrolux article, which is confusing at best, but at this point seems not to have falsified the facts as much as flip-flopping between Electrolux Group and Electrolux LLC/Aerus Lux.
I do have doubts that Aerus Lux will respond to your email with a direct answer, but maybe it will.
Thank you for your military service to our country. How unfortunate that Fake News misrepresented your work. You have had some fascinating experiences that would make for a good book.
I'm also grateful for the Sullivan County news article by Lewis Loflin and understand your reaction to it. Even though it confuses Electrolux Group and Electrolux LLC/Aerus Lux, it at least corroborates the Bristol plant closing.
It seems unlikely that ActivePure Technologies, LLC will respond with a direct answer, but we can hope so.
