Made in the USA ?

[gsheen]

Ill go read it now .

I love Korean stuff, My wife drives a Hyundai and we have a few in the family, Hers is over 4 year old now and is still very solid.
I know some Samsung vacuums are made in Korea By Bissell do they have their own brand of vacuum ?

 

[godfreys_guy]

Otherway round

Bissell vacuums are made by Samsung (the korean ones). Samsung makes really good vacs, solid and well thought out machines too

 

[kenkart]

As Far as I know..

Rainbow is all US, they even build their own motors after the disasterous episode with the E , after that they designed the brushless motor and the rest is history, im not a huge Rainbow fan, but it is a quality product!

 

[sanitairered]

What happened with the E that was 'disasterous'? I've never heard of that before!

 

[kirbyloverdan]

Yeah what happened to

the Rainbow E series ? I never heard anything aboout it . I love Rainbow and collect many of them even have the newest E2 Onyx .
Dan

 

[gsheen]

bissel made by samsung

Sorry Patrick

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The factory is samsung owned but the designs are bissells. Samsung assembles the machines and as so get to sell a few of the uprights under its own name.
others are manufactured in china

I.ve just become a bissell agent and in doing so got the rundown as thier were conflicting models in SA, Samsung here sells thier machines really cheap to the mass stores in a special deal ( by 2000 of our 54inch lcd tv's and get 200 vacs for free. Samsung had to withdraw certain machines from the market when bissell came back to SA.


I was given a virtual tour of both the factory's in china and korea and the design studio in michigan & in shenzhen in china

 

[godfreys_guy]

Oh Ok...

I was just going off what the CEO of Bissell Australia told me...

Either way... GREAT machines, e.g. the Lift-Off which I was using tonight

 

[gsheen]

lift off

ahh I have one too , great machine's

I love the innovative design.

what colour is yours , mine is ruby red

 

[twocvbloke]

My brother has one of those Samsung branded Bissel power farce machines, it's vile!!! Makes a Hoover Junior look like a high-end Commercial vacuum cleaner... :S

 

[kirbylux77]

Gareth, just out of curiosity, is it Samsung who produces the Bissell Healthy Home?? As much as the attachments look to be standard Bissell attachments, there's enough about the vacuum, especially the HEPA filter, that makes me think Bissell sourced this vacuum elsewhere.....

Rob

 

[gsheen]

bissel healthy home

HI Rob

I think this machine is built in china I do not sell this model as it conflicts to heavily with my dyson machines and in SA costs about the same. I think Bissel designed it them self it is too well designed to be a soarced product.

I am not sure how Bissell gets away with producing it and not gettting sued by dyson for patent infringments, look at the cyclone and as you said the hepa filter, ( there are two versions the one with the filter on the side and the one with the filter underneath the tank ( is that the one you were talking about ) Its almost a carbon copy of a dc07/dc14 hepa filter save the screw in the middle.

when we tested a sample they gave me I felt it was a bit big for our market and for the price I couldn't see why any one would by it over a dyson to be honest.

If it were cheaper then I think it would do well.
I did like the fact that the nozzle was elongated and flat to go under furniture

Cheers
Gareth