Thanks

 

Timken has three factories in the US.

 

If I'm not mistaken, Timken was just bought out by some foreign company. However, they are still selling off all their old stock.

Next time I see their rep at work, I'll ask him again (specifically) what he said.

 

Timken sold off their needle-bearing branch back in 09, to a Japanese firm, but, that's about all I can find.......

 

Oh that's great..

 

Provided the plant produces quality the Japanese are known for, that's a good thing.

 

This was recently. Idk, just remember hearing it a few months back.

 

I was also told Timken has been bought out.a local race shop told me their quality is nothing like it was 5 years ago

I was told much of thier bearing and seal line are now subcontracted and they are working on closing up remaining factories and finding new subcontractors to manufactur the bearings and seals so they can sell them under the timken name at a higher profit like much of thier product line already is... I think the company that owns them is a international bearing giant and would rather continue selling the higher quality stuff under thier own name but I'm not sure.. it was like 2 years ago I read about all this when having my rear differetial rebuilt.

It the same old story happened to other big companies... The suits and stock holders get rich selling the company, its dismantled and its employees laid off while the new owners get rich smearing a good companies reputation with sanctioned knock products.... just like what honeywell did with autolite, fram and peak and the like..... ever notice even harbor freight sells peak now? actually all your Chinese distributors seem to carry it now (like dollar general and the like)..The same discount stores that sold the colgate toothpaste they found mercury in that was made in china...
It happened with other super compaines like levis jeans, and IBM.... and I lot of people still think those companies make thier own products.... (IBM is made by Levenno or something to the sort is now owned mainly by the Chinese government and the products are now all made there as well) levis are made by some company in Egypt that bought the logo and trademark when levis went bankrupt.

HP is also in the process of closing most of its factories in spain and outsourcing to third party companies in china and Malaysia...
One has to really do thier homework these days not to be taken by the new business tactics of third world subcontracted products..

 

precisely why I said ohh great.. I didn't want to get started on another raid so I left it alone. There are huge things going on behind the scenes, conspiracies?.. At least the U.S. still produces our own food right? I'm not old enough to have lived then but, anyone can look back and see how productive this nation was pre WWII and some time after.. what happened?

 

Export ended. Import took over.