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Phil Kabza
Senior Member
Username: phil_kabza
Post Number: 701
Registered: 12-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 01:10 pm: |    |
Per project correspondence and online news, Hufcor appears to have ceased operations and is moving / has moved manufacturing to Mexico. Projects not able to obtain specified products.
I would appreciate comments regarding Moderco's project performance: durability, shipping - could be sent to me at phil@specguy.com.
Phil Kabza FCSI CCS AIA
SpecGuy Specifications Consultants
www.SpecGuy.com
phil@specguy.com |
Brian Payne
Senior Member
Username: brian_payne
Post Number: 267
Registered: 01-2014
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 01:49 pm: | |
Don't have any experience with Moderco, but I approved a Substitution request last month for Moderco because of Hufcor's situation. Won't be installed for another year. |
Chris Grimm, CSI, CCS, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: chris_grimm_ccs_scip
Post Number: 554
Registered: 02-2014
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 - 11:27 pm: | |
Emailed you. |
James Sandoz, AIA, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: jsandoz
Post Number: 345
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 10:42 am: | |
Has Hufcor completely ceased operations or just moved manufacturing to Mexico? Either way it is important to know. The web site does not indicate a cessation of operations. The holding company that bought Hufcor seem truly Draconian according to what I am finding online. |
ken hercenberg
Senior Member
Username: khercenberg
Post Number: 1443
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 10:59 am: | |
Doesn't sound like a done deal:
https://www.gazettextra.com/news/local/hufcor-to-shutter-its-janesville-manufacturing-plant/article_a2d0f99d-1505-59e4-9b6c-2f87ac1af102.html
[colin - note article is dated as updated July 2021 with no more updated information] |
ken hercenberg
Senior Member
Username: khercenberg
Post Number: 1444
Registered: 12-2006
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:01 am: | |
As an aside, I've been including Moderco in my specs for a few years now. I only spec single panel partitions so I haven't heard anything negative about them. I've never had good results with multi-panel installations regardless of whose products I've used. |
J. Peter Jordan
Senior Member
Username: jpjordan
Post Number: 1175
Registered: 05-2004
| | Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2022 - 11:21 am: | |
We have a very good Moderco rep in Houston and have received very good support for their products. In doing a renovation recently, we discovered a Moderco label on a 20-year old installation.
J. Peter Jordan, FCSI, AIA, CCS, LEED AP, SCIP
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T.J. Simons, CSI, CCS
Senior Member
Username: tsimons
Post Number: 34
Registered: 08-2005
| | Posted on Monday, April 18, 2022 - 05:54 pm: | |
We've included Moderco in our specifications for quite a while, and we've gotten good support from them as well. The only thing definite I've heard about Hufcor is that we had a West Coast project where the team had specified one of their vertically folding partitions, and were informed by the Contractor that they were unable to obtain the product. I am not sure at this point how that got resolved. |
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