Wayne Parham Messages: 19105 Registered: January 2001
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Heads up!
You may have heard that Eminence was fortunate enough to join the B&C Group a few years back, and since that time, they have spent endless hours integrating the brands and their business practices. This includes everything from merging and leveraging their supply chains to improving and stabilize costs, to their Engineering Teams working together in unison with the goal of building better products.
While much of the above noted may not to be visible from the outside, one of their recent improvements will be noticeable on certain products. More specifically - depending on the product family - their speaker frames will now arrive at Eminence either painted or powder coated from their supplier, versus Eminence doing the E-Coat inhouse. While it made sense years ago to coat the frames at Eminence, the original equipment is now old and antiquated, not to mention that it’s literally a dirty process which produces loads of waste and consumes loads of water.
The outsourced finish looks better and is far more consistent as the process is state of the art!
Eminence is sharing this information upfront to avoid any surprises. Here is what you can expect in the very near future:
Cast baskets: These will go from being E-coated in house to being powder coated by the supplier. They will also have machined gluing surfaces with the mounting holes being shiny.
Stamped steel baskets: These will simply migrate from being E-coated in house to E-coated by the supplier. There should be no cosmetic change.
It's nice they are working on their products and tightening up their supply chain. It bodes well.
Too many companies get absorbed by another and end up squeezed until they are gone. That's doesn't seem to be what is happening here. It helps that B&C is also a speaker driver manufacturer and knows the business. It always seems like things go south when a company is bought by a venture capital firm.
Bet the powder coated frames look real purty, too.
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