Using a press release on their website, the move should cause them to become the only alloy rims produced in America. Full PR follows:
Brothers and partners, Tom and John Black will start manufacturing rims in Jacksonville, Florida in February 2012. Currently, all Velocity rims are manufactured in Australia, and production will cease in Brisbane with the end of November.
Tom Black, the founder of Velocity, will be relocating from Australia to Florida where he can continue to oversee rim production at Velocity’s new manufacturing factory. Velocity’s distribution center will continue to operate beyond Grand Rapids, Michigan mainly because it has since 1992 and become their worldwide headquarters; with the Australian facility remaining as being a distribution center for the Asian and Australian markets.
Velocity would be the only U.S. produced aluminum rim within the cycling industry. John Black, president of Velocity Worldwide, Inc., anticipates this to help expand propel the organization as a leader in quality, ingenuity and customization customers have started to love and expect from Velocity.
Because of Dan for the tip!
Source : http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/11/09/velocity-moving-alloy-rim-production-to-usa/
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