Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Packgen: The trashing of an American company, part 2

We covered this in an earlier post. The administration was sending people around the web to discredit Packgen, the company that appeared on FNC to tout the fact that it had miles and miles of boom sitting unused in its warehouse in Maine. From an earlier post:
The Washington Post article makes no mention of the quality of the European boom now being accepted; yet again we have the trashing of another American company: Packgen. In fact,  "[T]he government is soliciting additional boom and skimmers from nearly two dozen countries and international organizations." Do these countries' companies meet the same high standards that Packgen's booms do not? And are we utilizing other American technology, as so vividly presented on television, in addition to accepting aid? Or are we not using those companies depicted on television because the workers are not represented by unions?
Here is proof that the boom Packgen makes is high quality. 
Another question has to be asked. Did the fact that the company's president appear on FNC influence the decision of the administration to declare the boom as "substandard"? 
He says Packgen's boom is superior to other boom. Its woven polypropelene is "practically indestructible," he says. "Packgen uses it to make toxic waste disposal containers."Using woven polypropelene means the Packgen boom isn't "going to twist like the vinyl" boom. "And it's easier to deploy. It's nice and stiff and it floats really nicely." 
Hot Air has commentary:
The excuse prior to this has been that Packgen’s product didn’t meet quality control standards and didn’t come with universal connectors.  Packgen has already agreed to change connectors, even though the boom already being deployed doesn’t have them.  This report demolishes the quality-control argument as well.  These now appear to have been nothing but an excuse to distract people from the fact that the Obama administration’s team knew nothing of Packgen’s inventory despite media coverage of their production in anticipation of the demand in the Gulf. 

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