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Sheaffer
The good Sam from Pendemonium lives in/near Fort Madison, Iowa. As you
may know, Sheaffer is in serious danger of closing its US plant and production and is now owned by BIC. She reports that last night the 10:00 local news reported that Sheaffer IS being shut on May 1, 2006. This announcement was made after the signing of a two year labour contract. She expects more details today. john cline ii, sad indeed (it was just a few short years ago that Gillette did the same thing to Janesville, Wisconsin, and it seems A T Cross is sloooowly doing about the same to its Lincoln, Rhode Island facility...) |
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You can read the article (if you click and paste this in): http://desmoinesregister.com/busines.../23930731.html Nancy john cline ii wrote: The good Sam from Pendemonium lives in/near Fort Madison, Iowa. Sheaffer IS being shut on May 1, 2006. (snip) |
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"James Goodwin" wrote in part: | | Rest assured, there will be plenty of Sheaffers like there are Parkers | floating around until they are made available for sale at home flea | markets or Ebay. Just because the plant is closing does not mean that | there will be no more production Sheaffers made, as there will be | plenty available in coming years on Ebay and other venues for the hard | core fan. But the only problem is the availability of roller ball and | ball point refills along with ink cartridge refills that will be | needed to keep these Sheaffers operational. IF Bic is not going to keep Sheaffer refills available, and I said IF (as far as I know, no decision has been made), the LEAST they could do is sell the technology and brand name to someone like Newell Rubbermaid, owner of Parker/Waterman/rotring, etc. Or, if the patents are now in the public domain, perhaps Parker and/or Cross could sell Sheaffer-style refills. Curiously, those knock-off Parker, Cross and MB refills (some of which are made in China by a division of Cross!) have never been available for Sheaffer, as far as I know. Too small a market? But that was when Sheaffer itself was still making refills. john cline ii who was afeared of seeing the end for Sheaffer when ink production moved to Slovenia | | James K. Goodwin |
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