A thing from an unexpected place

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
11/19/2018 at 17:26 • Filed to: Husqvarna, Huskvarna

We’ve bought a Husqvarna leaf blower. So you’d think that it might be made in !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Huskvarna with a K? Ja. The town changed its spelling, the company didn’t.

More realistically you’d expect it to be made in some low cost producer in the Far East

Instead it’s made in a high cost producer a long way away.

Why, I’ve no idea, but I’d guess Husqvarna bought a company out there.

It might surprise the Americans to learn that there are almost no American made consumer products sold here (because high cost and a long way away).

Huskvarna is a suburb of Jönköping, a place which is pronounced in a manner quite unexpected for English speakers.

DISCUSSION (13)

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 17:47

I believe Husqvarna own McCulloch who are American born/run . It w ouldn’t surprise me if they use one of their assembly plants.

Cé hé sin > 4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30
11/19/2018 at 17:58

(Googles)

Yes, indeed they did and the McCulloch blowers look very like ours with a different paint job.

Just Jeepin' > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 18:24

Well, you can’t not tell us how to pronounce Jönköping after such a pronouncement (ha).

Cé hé sin > Just Jeepin'
11/19/2018 at 18:29

Just go right here and click on the speaker symbol under the original word...I can’t really write it phonetically in English as we don’t have the ö.

Just Jeepin' > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 18:34

That is indeed odd .

ranwhenparked > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 18:36

Always weird when you see something like that. We used to get some IBM and Apple electronics from the UK and Ireland, always made you do a double take that you were getting something that wasn’t screwed together in Taiwan or Malaysia.

Cé hé sin > ranwhenparked
11/19/2018 at 18:41

Apple still assemble laptops on a small scale in Ireland. Until rec ently it was the only place anywhere in the world where they carried out any physical activity ( everything else they sell is contracted out) .

Cé hé sin > Just Jeepin'
11/19/2018 at 18:47

But logical, just a different logic. K follow ed by one of several “slender” vowels is always SH in Swedish. Swedish spelling is a lot more consistent than English so fewer oddities like “night”, “through”, “cough”, “tough” and so on.

ranwhenparked > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 18:52

Its still the only place where they assemble a full, consumer ready product. Their other factories are chips and displays.

Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks > Cé hé sin
11/19/2018 at 22:14

It’s a McCulloch who Husqvarna acquired. Fun fact: while it’s “A ssembled in USA,” chances are better than 95% that every single part it was assembled from was made in China, India, and Central America. But by having some guy literally do something as banal as put the screws into a sealed bag they can claim “ASSEMBLED IN USA” and sell it to the US government as a TAA compliant product.

I wish I was making that shit up.

Cé hé sin > Spamfeller Loves Nazi Clicks
11/20/2018 at 05:20

I had guessed from the wording “assembled in the USA” that something like that was the case. I couldn’t imagine something like a two stroke engine actually being made there.

I doubt if Husqvarna actually make much of their own stuff in Huskvarna these days although they’ve recently opened a chain plant there, presumably because automation makes it feasible. Chains are where the money is.

They’ve got a very long and complicated history, going back more than three hundred years when they were making guns for the Swedish army.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Cé hé sin
11/20/2018 at 06:07

Assembled in the USA, but where did the constituent parts come from?

Cé hé sin > pip bip - choose Corrour
11/20/2018 at 08:00

China presumably. See one of th e other comments.