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post Jun 27 2012, 09:20 PM
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It was announced today that Federal Mogul Wiper Products will cease operations at it's Michigan City plant at 402 Royal Rd by the end of 2012.
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post Jul 14 2012, 10:18 AM
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Company Timeline:
  • 1918: The Anderson Company was founded by John W. Anderson in Gary, IN
  • 1967: John W. Anderson passed away in 1967. The Anderson Company had been set up as a trust when he passed away.
  • 1977: The federal government said that ten years was the maximum that ANCO could be operated as a Trust. It was then put on the market.
  • 1978: Champion Spark Plug purchased The Anderson Company. John W. Anderson was inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame
  • 1980: A claim was filed with the Federal Trade Commission that Champion's 1978 purchase of The Anderson Company violated anti-trust laws and would create a monopoly if Champion was allowed to continue to own ANCO.
  • 1983: On May 19, 1983 the Federal Trade Commission's anti-trust claim was denied and Champion was allowed to keep ANCO.
  • 1984: Champion consolidated its Gary, Valparaiso and Burns Harbor ANCO Windshield Wiper plants and located it's operations to 402 Royal Rd. Michigan City, IN
  • 1989: Cooper Industries purchased Champion and all it's subsidiaries (including ANCO) (a bidding war between Cooper and Dana Corp)
  • 1993: Gereral Motors announced that it will no longer purchase it's original equipment ANCO wiper arms from Cooper and instead buy them from ANCO's long time competitor TRICO. This announcement essentially put ANCO for the most part out of the original equipment windshield wiper manufacturing business. ANCO was forced to layoff 300 workers from it's Michigan City plant as a result. ANCO's main focus was then shifted to it's aftermarket windshield wiper blade sales
  • 1998: In April of 1998 Cooper announced that it would sell its automotive products division.
  • 1998: In August of 1998 Federal-Mogul then purchased Coopers Automotive division. Federal Mogul CEO Dick Snell had a big plan to spend lots of money and acquire as many companies as he can and the process Federal Mogul purchased several of companies in the United Kingdom that held multiple asbestos liability litigation claims against them
  • 2000: On March 5, 2000 Federal-Mogul announced it was going to relocate ANCO's assembly, finishing and packaging operations to Juarez, Mexico but continued to manufacture it's aftermarket wiper components in Michigan City and export them to Juarez. ANCO laid off an additional 600 workers in Michigan City.
  • 2002: Due to it's massive Asbestos Liability Litigation Payout in the United Kingdom Federal-Mogul was forced to file chapter 11 bankruptcy. CEO Dick Snell was let go from Federal-Mogul but still collected a paycheck for quite sometime. During this time ANCO continued to gradually lay off workers from it's Michigan City facility
  • 2008: Federal-Mogul emerged from chapter 11 bankruptcy. ANCO still gradually continued to lay off workers from it's Michigan City facility (including myself) as overseas distributors began to infiltrate and subsequently devour ANCO's retail aftermarket windshield wiper share
  • 2012: Federal-Mogul announced that it will cease operations at it's Michigan City facility at years end and will relocate it's remaining operations to Juarez, Mexico ending 95 years of Windshield Wiper manufacturing in Northwest Indiana
  • 2013: John W. Anderson will roll over in his grave for the 100,000th time
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taxthedeer   Federal Mogul Wiper Products to cease operations in Michigan City   Jun 27 2012, 09:20 PM
MCRogers1974   Thiss is yet another small disaster for the manufa...   Jun 27 2012, 10:16 PM
taxthedeer   Thiss is yet another small disaster for the manuf...   Jun 28 2012, 04:08 AM
Southsider2k12   Sad to hear it is going, but it isn't a big su...   Jun 28 2012, 06:27 AM
taxthedeer   Sad to hear it is going, but it isn't a big s...   Jun 28 2012, 07:00 AM
Southsider2k12   http://www.nwitimes.com/business/local/fed...08c0c...   Jun 29 2012, 09:35 AM
Southsider2k12   http://heraldargus.com/articles/2012/06/28...2a540...   Jun 29 2012, 09:37 AM
taxthedeer   CTBL scoops all the media outlets again!!...   Jun 29 2012, 09:56 AM
taxthedeer   Company Timeline: [*]1918: The [b]Anderson Compan...   Jul 14 2012, 10:18 AM
Ang   Thank you Bill Clinton for signing the NAFTA.....t...   Jul 16 2012, 07:09 AM
taxthedeer   Thank you Bill Clinton for signing the NAFTA........   Jul 16 2012, 03:32 PM
Southsider2k12   If there is a president we can really thank for o...   Jul 17 2012, 06:41 AM
Ang   Yeah, but as soon as NAFTA was signed, manufacturi...   Jul 17 2012, 07:50 AM
Southsider2k12   Yeah, but as soon as NAFTA was signed, manufactur...   Jul 17 2012, 08:03 AM
taxthedeer   The Anderson Company Employee Handbook circa 1974:...   Jul 18 2012, 06:29 PM
ChickenCityRoller   Tax,Very interesting history. Thanks for sharing.   Jul 18 2012, 09:33 PM
MCRogers1974   The Anderson Company Employee Handbook circa 1974...   Jul 19 2012, 08:07 AM
ChickenCityRoller   Read the very last section on smoking. It seems so...   Jul 18 2012, 09:34 PM
Ang   I like the section on personal appearance. Compan...   Jul 19 2012, 07:55 AM
taxthedeer   One particular thing to notice is back in those da...   Jul 19 2012, 08:10 AM
MCRogers1974   One particular thing to notice is back in those d...   Jul 19 2012, 08:42 AM
taxthedeer   I always thought that picture on the cover of the ...   Jul 19 2012, 12:15 PM
Equalizer   I always thought that picture on the cover of the...   Aug 14 2012, 12:22 PM
MCRogers1974   It is obvious this area is not user friendly to m...   Aug 15 2012, 06:05 AM
southyards   Sadly, it is not this geographic area which is th...   Aug 15 2012, 06:58 AM
Southsider2k12   Sadly, it is not this geographic area which is th...   Aug 15 2012, 07:09 AM
diggler   http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/2fe79e35446...   Aug 15 2012, 07:42 PM
taxthedeer   [img]http://cnsnews.com/sites/default/files/2fe79...   Aug 16 2012, 01:38 PM
MCRogers1974   Here is a map that shows Federal Mogul plant in J...   Aug 16 2012, 01:50 PM
taxthedeer   How can we compete with that? Remember this is t...   Aug 16 2012, 08:16 PM
diggler   Company always advertised in the Dispatch for wipe...   Aug 16 2012, 01:55 PM
MCRogers1974   Company always advertised in the Dispatch for wip...   Aug 16 2012, 03:55 PM
taxthedeer   Company always advertised in the Dispatch for wip...   Aug 16 2012, 06:31 PM
MCRogers1974   The ANCO brand of windshield wipers will eventual...   Aug 16 2012, 06:46 PM
taxthedeer   I went to Sears and found wiper blades marketed u...   Aug 19 2012, 03:15 PM
MCRogers1974   China Well, looks like they will be produced in ...   Aug 19 2012, 03:31 PM
taxthedeer   Here's a story from the August 2006 Post-Tribu...   Aug 29 2012, 07:32 AM
MCRogers1974   Here's a story from the August 2006 Post-Trib...   Aug 29 2012, 08:37 AM
taxthedeer   I spoke with one of my former co-workers at a foot...   Oct 27 2012, 06:06 AM
taxthedeer   Yesterday was the last day of production in Michig...   Nov 22 2012, 09:21 AM
Commuter   so sad that we all grew up in a generation where U...   Nov 23 2012, 04:26 PM
taxthedeer   Spoke with a few of my friends over the last coupl...   Jun 20 2013, 07:22 AM
taxthedeer   Friday will be the final production shift at ANCO.   Jul 31 2013, 05:04 PM
taxthedeer   Just drove by the old ANCO plant on Royal Rd. earl...   Aug 7 2015, 01:13 PM
taxthedeer   I've been informed by city officials that Fede...   Aug 7 2015, 09:11 PM


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