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Reported on BBC news this evening that dehumidifier Manufacturer Ebac are to start manufacturing Washing Machines with plans to extend manufacture to all appliances.
Lets hope the range is better made than their dehumidifiers two of which I had bother with and were poorly made.
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Good news for the folks of County Durham though! 😀
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Hmmm Iv had a few of the dehumidifies on the bench. Very cheap plastic inside.
Fan mounts snapped and a seized motor.
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Does anyone read the news on here…
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/appliance … anned.html
:rolls:
K.
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kwatt wrote:Does anyone read the news on here…
http://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/appliance … anned.html
:rolls:
K.
Got to admit I missed that ! Hey Ho !
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kwatt wrote:Does anyone read the news on here….
I must confess I too never read the news on here but just come straight into the forums. In fact when the site morphed into its new format the news was/is somewhere else on the site unlike the previous software version. And like squadman before me…”Hey ho!” 😀
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If they plan on producing just another range of sealed drum, built to meet a price point tat that just about everyone else is churning out then I wish they wouldn’t bother :rolls:
We shall see I guess… 😯
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No washing machine manufactured in UK? The market is saturated with too many imports. The machine maybe built in the UK but they will be importing the spares from a small circle of suppliers so in essence they could well be putting a sticker saying “Built in Britain” rather than made in Britain like the one we see on foreign trucks.
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Ah agreed but at least someone from the UK is getting a wage for fitting these foreign parts and likely someone from the UK will benefit from repairing it 8) and for sure the tax man will be extracting UK tax from this British Company. I take my hat off to them for considering the idea, or as Mrs Petty said ‘we have the best engineers in the world its about time we started using them’ 🙂
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Iv never understood the whole British is best crap. In fact if you look back at British engineering such as cars they were plagued with problems. I don’t see any issues with machines being built in places like china.
What has killed it is the retail sectors constant price cutting forcing manufactures to cut costs
The welded drum was inevitable, every industry moves to a simpler cost effective design. The same arguments were had when surface mount components were introduced in electronics, computers moved away from OEM parts over to custom fully integrated designs like laptops.
Manufactures will always move to a simpler more cost affective design, its evolution, I’m not saying its ideal for us but it is what it is.
Iv always said that on the efficiency label there should also be a repair ability rating. Giving customers an idea to treat it like a toaster or not.
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If only it were that simple madangler.
The economics of that are hugely complex but, the highlights in terms of the British manufacturing industry is that we had unions that ran rampant making promises to workers that they likely knew could never be realised. In turn, this produced industries that were demoralised and too expensive on the global stage. The demoralisation led to poor quality IMO.
To say that the UK cannot produce top quality is, to be blunt, a complete nonsense.
We are leaders in space technologies, a very specialised industry where quality is totally paramount.
We are global players in defence and aerospace, ditto.
Believe it or not the UK is a leader in many chip and computing technologies as well.
And the list goes on and on but, these are not high profile consumer items because, generally speaking for low cost items, the labour costs here are too high to justify manufacturing in the UK and, much of Europe if the truth be told without subsidies.
Added to which, to build many products you don’t need the level of skilled workforce you get in the UK.
But you won’t see a “Made In Britain” tag on a satellite, we tend not to advertise “You’ve been killed by a British bomb” and chips are buried inside computers and mobile devices. 😉
K.
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madangler1 wrote:Iv never understood the whole British is best crap.
Let me explain, it goes way back, pride in British engineering started in earnest back in the 18th & 19th century with the industrial revolution. We were the greatest nation for bridge building, shipbuilding, canals, railways and factories producing the worlds finest clothing, carpentry, farm machinery and tooling. The 20th and aviation, medicines, car production, defence weaponry, space sciences, radio, television, architecture……….
…….all made by us British. Our very being built on pride and achievement, our spirit undaunted by mishap and setbacks, our determination to succeed and be the best in so doing has built this engineering nation to what you see here today……….
………we stand proud to a man, determined and resolute in everything we do………
……onwards toward the future we cry, shoulder to shoulder into the unknown……..
……..stand proud to to be British……and God save the Queen! :clown:
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Im fully aware of what we are good at. I had shares in ARM and did very well out of them, I also know that we are massive in aerospace as I have a few friends who work for GE Aerospace and Airbus making the wings for the A380 and landing gear for the Dreamliner
Add to that McLaren and almost all of F1 based in the Uk, Rolls Royce Engines , Hell we are probably the best at highly technical low volume products BUT at producing mass produced low value goods we never seem to be able to get it rite.
I agree the unions killed it but even then the British workers attitude to mass produced always seems to end badly.
This is changing though, John Bloor bought the rights to Triumph Motorcycles and from scratch rebuilt the brand to the massive success it is today built In UK, Iv been to the factory and its very impressive but Bloor states him self he was warned that he would not succeed but what he learnt was how the Japanese and Chinese build there bikes, they then brought these techniques to the UK and they have succeeded.
For this to succeed they need to do something different, building just another washing machine won’t work.
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madangler1 wrote:For this to succeed they need to do something different, building just another washing machine won’t work.
But the washing machine market is wide open and Ebac have obviously spotted a chance to grab a percentage of the market share. So why be so negative, why would anyone at this stage take a negative view toward this venture? If they choose to enter the lower end of the market, as I would suspect is the best option, they should be well away. And if they then wish to build sustainable sales & after sales service network then indies throughout the UK will be the first to want part of the action.
“Never in the in the field of washing machine manufacturer was so much owed by so many to so few!”…………..Makes you proud to be British don’t it? 8)
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