Moosehead Mfg opening? (Bangor, Augusta, Monson: for sale, real estate, closing)
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I had heard a while back the Moosehead furniture was being reopened in Monson but I was by the old plant a few days ago and it's still very closed. Anybody heard any more about it?
You ain't seen nothing yet. Transportation and heating costs are going to drive what little manufacturing there in left in Maine elsewhere. It's nuts to try and heat a building here and pay the thousands of extra dollars in diesel to have your goods hauled south for sale. All your profit ....gone. Fuel costs will be the death of this state and it's coming fast!
You ain't seen nothing yet. Transportation and heating costs are going to drive what little manufacturing there in left in Maine elsewhere. It's nuts to try and heat a building here and pay the thousands of extra dollars in diesel to have your goods hauled south for sale. All your profit ....gone. Fuel costs will be the death of this state and it's coming fast!
Have to agree. Yet value-added manufacturing is the only thing that can keep Maine from being just another raw materials source. For way too much of its history, Maine has been a Third World colony inside a First World nation.
In the 1700s and 1800s, Maine had a LOT of local manufacturing. Tour the Maine State Museum in Augusta and I'll bet you'd be amazed at the variety of goods made in Maine and shipped elsewhere.
I agree coaster, Maine used to be far better off. I started working part time in the 60's at a local tannery in Dover. Then in the 70's you could get a machining job most anywhere.($2.50 an hour...WOW) Of course after that the EPA and tree huggers came along....
In the 1700s and 1800s, Maine had a LOT of local manufacturing. Tour the Maine State Museum in Augusta and I'll bet you'd be amazed at the variety of goods made in Maine and shipped elsewhere.
Most of us know this. This is why we say Maine USED to have. The unions and the ever infringing Maine government drove them away a little at a time until now where we grow the trees we raise the blueberries we farm the salmon and we catch the lobster and sardines Then we put them on plains trains and trucks and send them out of state to be processed, canned or otherwise utilized.
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