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Visited the Siblade plant in Ballson Spa today...
Posted by mike (more from mike) on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:24:55
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Silicone Specialty Products Inc. They make the silicone wiper blade that's starting to show up at some parts stores. (swapped out a colored set I bought for another - talk about trivialities). Anyhow - what a class act! They're into all sorts of industrial silicone gasket & specialty stuff, very high-end (too bad they weren't around for the Challenger). After I left, I ended up driving through Waterford, NY about 10 miles south on the way home & right by the GE Silicones plant - put 2 + 2 together & the Ballston Spa operation is definitely a GE engineering offshoot.
Anyway - we were talking about their marketing strategies & how they had approached GM for OEM work. GM wouldn't take them because they only pay 2 bucks a blade and they didn't like Siblade's warranty - get this, originally lifetime!, but they ended up dropping it to 5 yr. under the demands of planned obsolescence. I told them, I don't know anything about that since I drive a Saab. She got a kick out of that.
Posts in this Thread:
- Visited the Siblade plant in Ballson Spa today..., mike, Tue, 30 Jan 2001 00:24:55 <-- Viewing This Message
- Re: Visited the Siblade plant in Ballson Spa today..., C G Ballson, Mon, 20 Mar 2006 06:40:05
- Re: Visited the Siblade plant in Ballson Spa today..., Mike, Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:47:09
- Re: Visited the Siblade plant in Ballson Spa today..., Mike, Thu, 1 Feb 2001 14:46:50
- as in Ballson Spa N.Y.?, Jack Crawford, Tue, 30 Jan 2001 12:48:32
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