I thought Remington was headquartered in Lexington, KY for some reason? Is it just the Manufacturing that is in NY?
Somebody help here. I don’t have time to research it at the moment.
If Remington does move it’s manufacturing, don’t be surprised to see it go out of America. They have to weight the potential damage to the Remington Brand but could likely save a lot of money by outsourcing or moving the manufacturing out of the country.
It’s “just business” and our government doesn’t know the first thing about it.
Remington, which has its headquarters in North Carolina, employs more than a thousand people at its Ilion plant, a complex of four-story brick buildings, some still with creaky wood floors, that are connected by passageways. The plant looks like a relic of the Industrial Revolution; from the outside, at least, little has changed since close to a century ago, when Remington expanded to meet the demand for firearms during World War I.
That's not as true as many people think it is, nor as true as it once was. With transportation costs rising with the price of petroleum, language barriers, QC at the other end of a 8,000 mile and 8 time zone pipe and so on, some manufacturers of high value, high quality items are bringing manufacturing back onshore.
Remington wouldn’t go overseas because there are too many issues getting the guns back into the US. But nobody has mentioned NY trade unions. There has already been gun maker traffic away fron closed shop states ( Winchester left Conn. for ex.) Ruger has always had an edge being in AZ. While the government attitude in NY is bad enough I have expected for quite some time that Remington’s brain trust will take any more stupid gov’t action as an excuse to pack the whole thing up. My friends in the gun business won’t put up with stupid gov’t stuff for long. It’s not guns but it’s close and similar-—Buck knives bailed out of CA a few years ago and moved to NIdaho. Colt hasn’t moved yet but has indeed farmed out most, if not all, actual manufacturing to other places. Just keep waiting for the hammers to drop and all it takes is a litle state sponsored stupidity but you are watching a major re-configuring of most US manufacturing. And file this for future reference: the USA now has more gun manufacturers than ever and nearly all of the new ones are in non-union states.
Remington has firearms plants in Ilion, New York and Hickory, Kentucky (extreme western part of the state), their ammo and component plant is in Lonoke, Arkansas (just outside Little Rock), and their R&R/technical facility is in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (about two miles from where I’m sitting right now).