How did the company change after the major production facility burned in 2000?
Nothing changed, other than the fact that we couldn’t make anything. Luckily we had a few containers get on the water leaving England to come to America a week before the fire. That product was enough to get us through three or four months. Meanwhile, Henry and Andrew were left scrambling trying to figure out what they were going to do. In fact, the only thing that didn’t burn were the bricks. The steel reinforcements melted and the machines were destroyed. The two found some places through friends that work on Roles Royce airplane engines and they had some extra space that could be rented out. Then Rosenthal and Renshaw bought some machines and had them air freighted in. Within 45 days they were making 70% of the products that they were making before, which is completely unbelievable. Air freighting a machine that weighs 20,000 pounds from Japan was amazing, but it was either do that or fold up shop. Even our competitors offered a helping hand. We needed help and everyone was offering
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