UK Manufacturers

[paperboy]

HI, can any one help me. I work for a large packaging company and they have developed a form of packaging made from recycled paper that can replace EPS.
I want to approach UK manufacturers of white goods with this product but have so far only found a couple of them, does anyone out there know this information or where I could get it from, thanks.

[Martin]

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Have you looked in ‘Web links’ on the Navigation bar (Top left of page) 😉

[paperboy]

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Yes, I tried the web links before posting, a couple have been usefull but most are advertising links and dont list if UK manufactured or production site details.

Thanks

[kwatt]

Any of the brands are unlikely to tell you where the products actually come from. I can tell you that the vast bulk of appliances are not produced in the UK.

Virtually none have UK owners.

K.

[paperboy]

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Thanks Kwat, I guessed the majority of whitegoods would be made abroad but there are some producers in the UK but is as if they want to keep it secret, there is a big manufacturer in Yate in Bristol that I stumbled on recently but I cannot find any info any where on it. It seems no one want to own up to be made in Britain, or is it the manufacturers don’t want the public to know several brands are made in the same place just badged and priced differently for the same appliance. I dont know the reason but is sure is difficult to find them.

Any help would be appreciated

[Alex]

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paperboy wrote:Thanks Kwat, I guessed the majority of whitegoods would be made abroad but there are some producers in the UK but is as if they want to keep it secret, there is a big manufacturer in Yate in Bristol that I stumbled on recently but I cannot find any info any where on it. It seems no one want to own up to be made in Britain, or is it the manufacturers don’t want the public to know several brands are made in the same place just badged and priced differently for the same appliance. I dont know the reason but is sure is difficult to find them.
Any help would be appreciated

The manufacturer in Yate is the old Parnall Tumble Dryer factory, evolved in the early 70’s into the Creda factory. Taken over by Hotpoint (GDA) in 1986, now owned by Merloni Elettrodomestici SpA of Italy. Take a look at the 3rd link along the top of the following site, under Creda. http://www.theservicecentre.co.uk/Service/aboutus.html

The only one I can think of is Crosslee Tumble dryers in Hipperholme near Halifax. http://www.crosslee.co.uk/english/white … index.html Unless anyone knows different?

I can remember the first foreign machine I looked at was an Imperial in around 1971, (Zanussi, Porcia factory, Italy) and I thought there would never be a market for cheap imported products, there again I used to ride a Francis Barnet Motorbike with a Villiers 2t Engine, and scoffed at all my mates on their Honda 90’s.

Now the Italians are worried as Eastern Europe and China are doing to them what we had done to us.

Alex

[paperboy]

Alex, thanks so much for your help.

In the last few days I think I have read that there are 60?? producers of white goods in the UK, seems high to me, but I guess i will have to keep searching.

Your comment regarding the Francis Barnet Motorbike reminds me of my farther telling me he never thought those Japanese rot boxes called Datsun would ever make an impact over here !!!

[kwatt]

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Paperboy there are, to my knowledge the following…

Limited cooker production for GDHA at Prescot near Liverpool.

Crosslee, as Alex pointed out.

Limited production/assembly at both Hotpoint, as Alex says although one plant is now scheduled for closure in the Midlands.

Ditto for Hoover/Candy who build some machines in Merthyr Tydfill at the Hoover plant there. They also produce limited floorcare at Cambuslang in Glasgow.

I think Norfrost still build some small chest freezers in Thurso.

There are some small volume specialists as well, like Mercury, Falcon and the likes but I am not aware of where many of these actually are produced. But they are low volume and specialist products, generally good ones as well.

Pretty much that’s it for UK appliance production so far as I am aware, everything else is produced outside the UK. There is no way that there’s as many as sixty, not even if I’ve missed one or two.

Obviously brands that are perceived as being “British” do not wish the public to be aware that they are not actually what people think they are, I mean imagine the the damage it would cause if it were widely known that Hoover and Hotpoint are actually not British at all.

And yes, some are just re-badged but some, even from the same plant, will have differences ranging from subtle to significant. Any production facility other than wholly owned will almost certainly produce to the specification and, obviously, price.

K.

[paperboy]

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Thanks Kwatt you have been a big help. Looks like this project will have a early completion date.

Thanks to all.

[wsts]

Aga group are uk based, Rangemasters and falcons along with the Aga masterchef and La Cornue “Cornue fe” are made at leamington, only the built in stuff and cooker hoods are factored.

Aga’s and rayburns are made at Ketley nr Telford, I saw that someone said limited production at GDHA in Prescott, they actually make a crapload of cookers there, not as many as they used to but still a few thousand every week.

[wsts]

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kwatt wrote:
There are some small volume specialists as well, like Mercury, Falcon and the likes but I am not aware of where many of these actually are produced. But they are low volume and specialist products, generally good ones as well.

Pretty much that’s it for UK appliance production so far as I am aware, everything else is produced outside the UK. There is no way that there’s as many as sixty, not even if I’ve missed one or two.

Mercury are the domestic brand from Lincat and are manufactured at their factory in Lincoln, Falcon domestic cookers are made at the Rangemaster factory in Leamington.

Its quite possible there are 60 brands manufactured in the uk but I think that they are a few probably under the umbrella of the same company ie: stoves belling new world and valor (though valor arent being produced at the moment) are all gdha brands theres four then theres the likes of the aga group that make rangemaster, falcon, aga, rayburn, la cornue, maytag ranges, tecnik ranges theres 11 from just two companies.

[Alex]

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How could I forget. Electrolux (Swedish) have the Tricity Cooker Factory in Spennymore Co Durham.

Yes Hoover are still in Merthyr (Italian) Rangemaster as well as Mercury/Lincat in Lincoln, both wholly British. I forgot those as well. Wonder who else there is?

I suspect the question is regards British owned as well as manufacture.

Alex

[adamhornsby]

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Samsung manufacture TV’s Fax machines and home appliances in Teeside Newcastle. They also have one in Wales don’t they?

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