At 04:57 AM 5/13/2005 -0400, you wrote: >Seven hours to restring a grand?!? Doesn't that seem high? A minute and >a half per string? > >--Cy-- Cy, Just one of the few minor mistakes in the article. The reporter was fluent in French, Spanish, and English, but.... well.... for instance, it's not the former Baldwin plant (either one). Just mainly former Baldwin workers. Stringing and chipping (the two stringers are the chippers and one is the tuner) add up to 6 or 7 hours. Mas-o-menos, as they say. Also, the sales figure she quotes for projected 2005 is a bit off of what she was told. But otherwise, I thought she did nice job. She wasn't as interested in the whole business as she was in the unique qualities of this particular Maquila compared to the others in Juarez, like Honeywell and Ratheon and the like. Regards, Guy
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