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Didn't see this posted anywhere else.
This time it's ACL Bearings. http://www.theage.com.au/small-busin...0826-eyq1.html Quote:
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Some more.
http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...25761E0018F1FA Quote:
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Stands to reason I suppose, another good, viable and recognized Aussie manufacturer run into the ground by bad management. All going down hill since National Parts carked it...buggered if I know how that happened there either...I was told they were turning over 12Mil profit's per annum then...puff...gone
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Ford threat as supplier collapses
http://www.theage.com.au/national/fo...0827-ezxb.html Quote:
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Whats the bearing for ? cann't IT be sourced from USA?
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That doesn't bode well for Repco either as virtually all our gaskets are ACL and so are most stocked engine bearings and head bolts.
How do companies doing so well for such a long time suddenly just roll over and die? |
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Oh shyte... i better tell my manager this in the morning... I work for a local Toyota dealership in Spare Parts... and have used ACL parts many many times...
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Very sad news as in addition to being the main maker of bearings and gaskets used in Oz Fords, in many ways ACL is the real Repco of the Repco Brabham fame.
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This is not good. Very sad.
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It seems like doing the right thing and expanding into the US might have been their undoing:
http://livenews.com.au/business/with...09/8/27/217522 Quote:
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No mention on theie US site yet of their troubles http://www.aclperformance.com.au/us/indexus.html
lots on their oz site though http://www.acl.com.au/
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very sad to see another high profile Aussie company going down the gurgler :(.
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ACL Bearings back to work
http://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mell...2576230025D70B Quote:
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this has been going on for ages, i hadn't read any of the articles, but noone in perth has been able to supply acl race pistons or rings, nor head haskets. we have plenty of pistons, but without the rings they're all rubbish.. we first found out about2-3 months back..
now we have to use the precision pistons and hastings rings, unfortunately the hastings rings are wider so they dont fit the acl pistons, however the precision pistons are lighter.. so there's an advantage there, but the costs of each motor are increased.. we can only hope things start to recover quickly..
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Hopefully it survives, their are many families that depend on it not to menton ford
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