I seen this on my local news tonight.

Ribbon cutting ceremony on the new facility in Mayfield Kentucky.
30,000 square foot addition to the existing Remington .22 autoloader plant.

great for KY, and US jobs ...

I wonder what effect this will have, if any, on the Remington product line? Specifically the M770 centerfire rifle. I know this has been a lackluster model for Remington. The Marlin X7 series however competes in the entry level market and is a less expensive and superior product IMO. Do you think there may be some consolidation?

Connecticut's loss is Kentucky's gain. Did the employees get an option to relocate to keep their jobs?

Here in our neck of the woods a factory worker makes $10 to $12 an hr. I doubt they would want to move down here for that.

Aren't unions great? At least until they raise the cost of production so badly the plants close. The American north-east and mid-west from Detroit to southern Ohio have the largest collection of highly paid un-employed people in the world.

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great for KY, and US jobs ...

Agreed, but sad even tragic for those long term loyal workers tossed out in the cold in Conn. I am not aware of a Marlin bankruptcy that forced a Remington rescue. Correct me if I am wrong, but Remington had the opportunity(cash) to buyout the company . We used to have a separate Marlin with their own ideas and products now they just become part of Remington crap builder. I don't like Remington quality or their ideas of product innovation. Nothing wrong with Remington, per se, I just don't care for the products or service. I got two lemons and the stuff is built down to a lowest common denominator (yes just IMHO). I do like competition and I used to like Marlin. Same story for H&R they had some pretty cool ideas and were a very assessable walk in and chat company. Now you have to call a central switch board. I had one of the Ilion NY H&R self destruct on the first shot. I saw a new Remington 870 so stiff it would hardly load, trigger >>10 pounds and just a total POS.

I am always happy to see mfg in USA, but very sad to see local innovative company merger in with a mega sh$T builder.

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Aren't unions great? At least until they raise the cost of production so badly the plants close.

I am not a big fan of unions, nor govt, nor bad corporate behavior. There is no evidence that any union issue resulted in the Marlin buyout. Don't talk SH$T unless you know something. PLEASE, real people are getting hurt. We don't need political platitudes. Remington decided to buy Marlin. Remington decided to fire workers and move the plant. Remington will dictate future product features and quality. That is Remington not some hypothetical union boggie man.

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Originally posted by ted thorn:
I seen this on my local news tonight.

Ribbon cutting ceremony on the new facility in Mayfield Kentucky.
30,000 square foot addition to the existing Remington .22 autoloader plant.

Only some of their production will move to KY, the rest is being moved to Ilion NY.

http://www.ammoland.com/2010/0...acility-in-ilion-ny/

ILION, NY --(AmmoLand.com)- Freedom Group’s COO, Joseph B. Gross, today announced that the Remington Arms facility in Ilion, New York, will add 100 manufacturing jobs as it relocates certain production from its Marlin factory in North Haven Connecticut. The 194-year-old Ilion Firearms Plant, which is the Mohawk Valley’s largest employer and the nation’s longest continuous manufacturer, will receive $5.9 million in building improvements, equipment and machinery investment over the next two years. The project will be supported with $1.5 million in grants from the Empire State Development Corporation, $200,000 in 2010 electricity cost subsidies, and the New York State Office of Community Renewal has earmarked a $750,000 New York State Community Development Block Grant for the project.


http://www.wktv.com/news/local/93453094.html

LION, N.Y. (WKTV) - 100 new workers will be punching the clock at Remington Arms before next Summer.

Remington Arms' parent company, The Freedom Group, is closing its North Haven Marlin Facility, leaving Marlin Firearms to now be manufactured at Remington in Ilion. The expansion will bring about 100 new employees to Remington within a year's time.

Freedom Group Chief Operating Officer Joseph Gross said their was serious competition between states to get the jobs.

"A lot of states were very aggressive, and working with Dennis Mullin and Senator Seward and Assemblyman Butler, we were able to put together a package that would offset a lot of our costs of doing this," Gross said.

The Empire State Development Corporation has committed $1.5 million to help pay for the relocation, with Herkimer County Industrial Development kicking in $750,000.

The Freedom Group received about $200,000 in various state subsidies to pay for electricity.

http://www.remington.com/pages...tucky-and-ilion.aspx

http://www.remington.com/pages...cility-in-ilion.aspx

Any news yet on Hotsh#ts appointment at the plant in his dual role of quality control of "thingys" and community relations????????

Well I don't blame Marlin one bit, The State of Connecticut has been in Running Business out of the State for a good 100 years now. We have a strange government here, they think all they have to do is just raise taxes anytime they want to cover the spending they do. And we have an AG that for the most part, loves to sue businesses into bankruptcy. Never mind telling tall ones about combat service in Viet Nam. Marlin Should do well in KY. Kentucky is a nice place. Besides making Bourbon Whiskey, and now guns. They have a few horse farms there too.

The State of Connecticut didn't get the message with Winchester folding tent and moving to South Carolina, and they obviously aren't getting the message with Marlin moving.
Connectcut will never get the message.
The time to insure that companies like Winchester and Marlin don't vacate the state is LONG before any thought of moving by the owners. You don't wait till the horse is out of the barn to yell for help. Or, is Connectcut just sleeping??

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There is no evidence that any union issue resulted in the Marlin buyout. Don't talk SH$T unless you know something.

"Don't talk SH$T unless (I) know something"? Well, let's see, it had to be something didn't it? Since they didn't say, maybe some logic can be considered about what I DO know.

I know Remington relocated production from NY to the Carolinas a few years ago. I know they're moving the Marlin plant from Conn to Kentucky. I know Conn is a high tax, high regulation and strong union state (so is the entire north east). I know Kentucky is none of that. I know a LOT of manufactoring has been moved from the north east because of costs. Maybe there's a message in there regardless of a lack of specific news broadcasts in this instance?

I know Marlin's management has never shown any signs of stupitity. No rational business would choose to wait until they are in bankruptcy before taking an offer to sell rather than wait for a court ordered sell for dimes on the dollar.

I know there is no way to save loyal workers jobs when both their unions and government are determined to kill businesses that have long laid golden eggs.

But... other than that, what do I know? Perhaps you are right, not much really.

Now, what do you know that prompts such a response? Do you think production costs, including taxes and state/local gov hassels don't matter to a business? Or would you suggest Rem is moving the plant because they want their workers to live in horse country? Or maybe they just like the view from there? Or maybe Remington just liked the idea of increasing the costs of owning their new company and reducing its profits for years by moving the required machinery that far or buying new machines, and building a new plant and training a new work force?

Sheesh.

Cerberus Capital owns Remington. And Marlin.

"S---t builders?" I dunno', maybe. But that would surprise some people at Thompson Center. It would REALLY surprise some people at Dakota Arms.

"S---t builders?"