The End Of An Era.......

[patgund]

I guess we're all going to have to get cheap import flamingoes from now on...

Pink flamingo plant closing

"Union Products Inc., the original manufacturer of the plastic pink flamingo, will close its doors by Nov. 1, according to the company's president.

Production of the flamingos stopped in June, along with the company's other product lines, and the company is now in the process of liquidation, according to its president, Dennis L. Plante.

"These are some hard times for the plastics industry and they have been for the past two years," he said Wednesday, citing significant increases in the cost of electricity and resin, a petroleum-based product central to manufacturing.",

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[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Did you read the whole article?? The city's kind of upset that it's gonna lose it's 'home of the pink flamingo' title. Some of the plastics mfrs are gonna try and get the mold so they can continue to make them there.

I think it would be a generous gesture if the company would give the molds away to a deserving company...