Posted on 11/20/2012 8:07:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
ATKINS, Va. - Cabinet maker Merillat is laying off 280 employees at two manufacturing plants in southwest Virginia.
Officials for parent company Masco Cabinetry confirmed on Tuesday that it plans to close two facilities that make doors and panels for cabinets in Atkins in mid-January...
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HOORAY Merillat! Prepare. Persevere.
Thanks Barry!!! You’re getting done what Osama couldn’t do! Good job! Every commie ‘RAT gets a trophy when you’re done!
Not if “they” have their way. “They” want us begging them for food and roofs over our head. Never have understood to what end such people want to rule. Is money the main goal? Why ruin so many lives?
They make good cabinets.
I guess that work will be farmed out to China now.
Wow..... I have installed so many of their cabinets. Most likely these jobs will go off shore too or Mexico.
I’m sure they would be welcomed here in Texas.
I miss that place, it was my dream house. Planned it for ten years. Only had it two years before everything blew up.
Oh well, at least I still made money on it. Bought the land before speculators drove everything through the roof. Things could be worse, I could’ve easily lost my @ss on it.
A case of he who panics first panics best, I guess.
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I may cheer when I see “EPA closes 2 regional offices,” “DOJ lays off 1500 lawyers,” or “White House staff reduced by 400.” THAT would be something to celebrate.
With a spokesperson like Ty Pennington, how could they lose?
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Don’t you think it’s a question of the market either disappearing or being greatly reduced? In this economy, no one is building and not many are remodeling. So who’d be buying new cabinets?
They’re “better” cabinets, but not absolute top of the line. I’d imagine they’ve been taking a sales hit on cost compared to more mass-produced, less well made products, particularly imports.
I suppose any company that manufactures well-made proeducts domestically is in deep kimchi. What horrible times we’re living in.
I wonder how Shiloh, another Virginia cabinetmaker, is doing? Marsh too, for that matter, they’re mor local. I considered both of them before settling on Merillat. Similar.
You piqued my curiosity, so googled both Shiloh and Marsh. It appears both are weathering the economic storm. (but the Shiloh I found is in MO? And Marsh, of course, is in High Point, NC).
In Muslim countries, this would be considered highly offensive, strike that, in Christian countries too!
“So who’d be buying new cabinets?”
Maybe they need cabinets in the FEMA Camps?
Maybe they need cabinets in the FEMA Camps?
THOSE are made in China!
My friend’s son works with two young guys that make custom cabinets in their shop not far from San Antonio. They have enough orders to keep them busy for at least the next two years. Little pricey but excellent workmanship and perfect in every detail.
Lots of folks around me are upgrading their kitchens including switching out the particle board cabinets since it doesn’t look like they will be moving anytime soon.
The Shiloh distributor for my area must have been in Virginia because I clearly remember a Virginia address on the literature, but the website for the same product says Missouri, you’re correct. Nice cabinets either way, semi-custom, meaning you get a wide variety of species, stains, glazes and door/drawer profiles like full custom but don’t pay a custom price because some of the components that are not visible are mass produced. The exterior, howver, is built to order.
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