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General Chat => All the rest => Topic started by: level42 on September 06, 2012, 06:51:01 PM
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http://www.deondernemer.nl/deondernemer/645877/Laatste-beeldbuisfabriek-dicht.html
Here is a Google translated page: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.deondernemer.nl%2Fdeondernemer%2F645877%2FLaatste-beeldbuisfabriek-dicht.html&act=url
It's about this company: www.crt.nl
They didn't produce CRTs for TVs but for medical and aviation. There were still only 12 people working there (was 120 once...)
It was the LAST CRT factory in Europe and because a German company cancelled an order for airplanes which gave them the final blow.
Interesting is that the head of the company says there will be a market for CRTs the coming 20/30 years. This is because f.i. airliners are operated for decades screens will have to be replaced. He says LCDs are only slowly entering that market.
The guy was also interviewed on Dutch radio this morning. He said he was sad about for the people working there, but also because it was the end of a craft and said making LCD's is easy and boring, where making CRTs takes skills and knowledge...
He also said it would be impossible that CRT manufacturing would ever return because of the parts not being available anymore.
I wonder if there is a sell-out of CRTs.......IMHO the whole factory should turn into a museum....but I guess the machines will be sold to China...and let's just hope they see a niche market there, like what happened with regular "radio" tubes.....