when and why did DVC go out of business?

[bnsd60m9200]

they made hard to find vacuum bags for many vintage machines. i heard they went out of business last year, but no clue as to why. anyone have more detailed information???

Will

 

[super-sweeper]

Dust Vac Corp. it's no more?????

Never heard this,I just bought some DVC stuff a few months back, Shame! They've been in business for decades!

 

[mistert]

DVC Bags...

You are right Will...really appreciated how they made after market cloth bags for kirbys and many other vacuums. It's a shame, but feel that envirocare paper bags seemed to have taken over the aftermarket share of replacement paper bags.

 

[fan-of-fans]

Is DVC related to Home Care Industries? I thought DVC made the genuine UltraCare Kenmore bags.

 

[super-sweeper]

hey fan guy-

Since I do not know if your first name, I hope you don't mind 'Fan Guy'

 


Home care industries does ring a bell, I think you're thinking of EnviroCare. I dug around through my 'vault' of ancient, rare and NOS bags. I found a pack of OLD DVC bags for Whirlpool CVR/Kenmore 5024 bags, here's some info I found.


 


DUST VACUUM CORP


P.O BOX 1148


Oxford, NC. 27565


 


Wonder if the P.O. box is still active?

 

[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Does DVC manufacture generic:</span>


<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">bare floor brushes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">dusting brushes</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">crevice tools</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">upholstery tools</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">straight suction rug nozzles</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">some electric & non-electric vacuum hoses</span></li>
</ul>

 

[daknx1994]

DVC is related to HomeCare Industries. I believe it is called HomeCare Products now. They are still around. They were bought out or taken over from another company I do believe, but they still manufacture here in America. I was on the VDTA website looking through an online magazine and saw about them I will see if I can find it.

Here is the link to their website. They make the Sears UltraCare brand, Microclean, Microlined, DVC, Honeywell, and a few others like for Home Depot.
Click on brands and you can see all they manufacture.

http://www.homecareind.com/vacuum-cleaner-bags.html

 

[vackid]

Here is the story given to vacuum dealers. In the town of their manufacturing facility, they were given massive tax cuts for moving their company there to manufacture. The tax cuts stopped and so did their willingness to stay there. There was absolutely no warning for the employee's or their customers, I.E. Vacuum suppliers like Essco, or Sears (DVC made their bags, as previously mentioned). They are no opened back up, under a new name and they are trying to get vacuum dealers to back them and wants to sell directly to vacuum stores because their suppliers like Steel City Vacuum and Essco doesn't want to take them back after the way they closed up without giving anyone any formal notice or advanced warning. There will be a new line of DVC products, although in my store we carry either genuine bags (Kirby, Oreck, Riccar, Miele) or Envirocare bags. Envirocare offers more HEPA Filtrete style bags than DVC and are packaged nicer so we have always ordered those.

 

[singingrainbow]

Well, I was not aware of this until now. But as with vackid above, in my store we just carry genuine bags or Envirocare bags. I especially like the hepa Envirocare bags, they can add far better filtering ability to some vacs you would have never thought of.


Scott

 

[dysonman1]

Tacony used DVC as their bag supplier until DVC abruptly (without warning) closed up. We had to scramble to find another manufacturer - and we did. The new bag manufacturer makes FAR better HEPA as well as paper bags, than DVC ever did. That's why Tacony's HEPA bags for other vacs (like F & G Eureka and Lux tank) are no more. It's a pity because I LOVED the Hepa Lux bags for my vintage machines. I did squirrel away three packs of Lux Hepa bags for my collection before they were all gone.

 

[ultralux88]

Tom, doesn't Perfect still make and sell a HEPA bag for their Electrolux clones?

 

[dysonman1]

The Perfect bag's collar is very thick. Much thicker than the Electrolux bags. It seems to only work well with the model LX and LXI Electrolux models. With a Perfect bag, I have a very hard time getting the door to close on the model G and then when it is closed, it won't pop open because I had to slam it shut.

 

[kirbylux77]

For members here interested in Type C Hepa bags for Electrolux canisters, there is another alternative. I have a couple of packs of Electrolux Hepa bags made by the Canadian vac parts distributor JohnnyVac. So if you can find a dealer in Canada that would ship to the States, you could always buy those. And these are BETTER quality than the Perfect Hepa bags too for that matter.

Rob

 

[JoeVacs]

"Envirocare offers more HEPA Filtrete style bags than DVC and are packaged nicer so we have always ordered those. "

This is why they closed their doors. Made in USA should mean something to all vac dealers. I actually prefer "Micro-Lined" bags over "EnviroCare" and I prefer supporting American manufacturing instead of Chinese sweat shops.

As a vac shop owner, I see keeping as many US vacuum related industries alive as possible as an important part of holding onto our future. If we don't support US made products, we can't complain when there are none left. If it gets to the place where it's all made in China, we won't have any quality options for our customers, and they will have no reason to come into our stores. We all know that you cannot "out cheap" Walmart.

 

[Gr8DaneDad]

Made in China is not necessarily a bad thing. The Chinese can and will manufacture to any quality specification, including the very best of the best.... if you're willing to pay for it, just like anything else. It's all very well and good to talk "made in the USA", but nobody will buy it because it costs 10x what the alternative is. American (and most others around the world) consumers don't give a damn about quality, they want it cheap and that is all. Free is better and they will bitch and moan about the cost of free.

 

[DesertTortoise]

Tom has a point. Look at the prices vacuums fetched in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. Some of them sold for dollar values as high as we pay today for lower cost new vacuums. In another thread comparing 1959 vacs we see some prices as high as $125. Many others in the $60s to $80s. Those were 1959 dollars. Some of the mid 1980's Kenmores shown in catalog pages here were listing at $500 or more. In todays dollars those were thousand dollar vacuums, and they sold in large numbers.

Most people would not pay the 1985 list price for a new production vacuum with equal features and quality today (good luck getting plastic as nice as was used back then or equally durable motors and switches), considering it too expensive. Heck, Kenmores best canister vac sells for less today than their best canister shown in the 1984/85 Sears catalog. That's amazing to me. Yet our parents and grandparents paid those prices on half the take home pay and considered them to be well bought. Now, the average Walmartian would scoff at paying five bills for a vacuum. Heck, there is a new Kenmore Intuition sitting at the local Sears outlet with a price of $249 and they still cannot get rid of it.

Tom is right, all people want today is cheap. But also consider we have more ways to spend our money on, pcs, smart phones (one for every family member aged ten and up), big screens (one in every room), quads, dirt bikes, fancy rice cookers that cost more than many vacuums (I'm guilty), you name it. So people are price sensitive to things like vacuums that have no status or entertainment value to them. It's just a tool, an expenisve broom with a motor.

 

[super-sweeper]

D.T, I'll keep on living with my '86 KTV CRT set, my 1984 Bell telephone (Since the '66 Automatic-Electric rotary isn't the best at calling in it's current state!). I'd love to see kids these days break a rotary phone, they find all kinds of ways to break screens on their phones, since when did phones need screens? some of the phones I've seen even have bits of the phone's shell busted off!