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Re: Got some new news on Enfield Plant closing
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lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Mon, 25 Dec 2000 06:17:57 GMT
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In lugnet.lego, Tom Stangl writes:
> will be GREATLY increased, as molded bricks take up MUCH more volume than raw
> pellets.


LEGO gets their ABS for Europe from Bayer.  The U.S. Supply comes from GE. In
other words, they can get the ABS from wherever they want to put a factory but
it might take time to get the vendor up to speed.

http://www.google.com/search?q=lego+bayer (many pages about LEGO and Bayer)

http://www.som.umass.edu/som/pub/cw-sp97/lego.html

[quote from above article]

"Until recently, our plastics raw materials all originated in
Europe; but we've been bringing in GE Plastics, one color at a time."


KL



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  Re: Got some new news on Enfield Plant closing
 
I still fail to see how this will save them money, unless: 1 - having the extra sets of molds/machines is killing production costs 2 - the raw ABS is ONLY available from Europe. I can't see how molding the bricks overseas and shipping them to the US (...) (26 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.lego, lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)

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