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Kohler Showroom and Factory Tour

Bob tours the Kohler factory in Wisconsin with the founder's great granddaughter, Laura Kohler. Laura shows off several new products and reproduction pieces.
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Kohler Showroom and Factory Tour

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" When Kohler Wisconsin visiting the Kohler company. One of the major manufactures the plumbing products and who better to tell us all about it in the great granddaughter of the founder Laura Kohler welcome. Thank you aren't. It's great that we can start to were not in the factory but here in your your showroom that if pretty unique facility what we think ballot that it's -- ten year old sign --"

" We created some customers actually get an idea how to use that product and it's become a tourist attractions well."

" out a 100000 people a year -- at -- that it's a little bit like going to museum modern -- to look at that just plumbing -- but the architecture here pretty neat."

" I again found in the water is moving that have a workable product."

" That had a fun. Lots of us who were in the building business and remodeling a familiar with many of these products like these wonderful steel. Throughout here all the World Bank rules and the pedestal sinks and the like. But you guys are constantly bringing out new things what are some of the new product."

" Got attended by Alex is actually. In simple Kansas standing problem which has 37 and -- gallons of water and re circulate that water at eighty gallons of water from and it's. That's quite a huge force coming and yeah that sounds like but what can regulated didn't get to decide that you really want and there's also new whirlpool that are just traditionally -- We've got a luxurious whirlpool that actually has backed jet and a neck pillow with -- coming through that the sizes in act with that well. The bigger the bigger and then we've got the vessel which -- actually above Conner -- That -- on the actually sit Donald O'Connor here bathroom."

" So this is really leading edge contemporary design as well but. What I've always enjoyed about some of the core alliances the the kind of reproduction pieces that. Replicate them of the early plumbing fixture back commuting some of them -- our -- and we got a number of traditional -- the -- invented and Arafat. This is a lot like visiting that design. Display but what we really wanted to learn a little bit about how the vitreous China is manufactured."

" Amendments covered our pottery we've got ten more -- over there and his manager of new product design and he can now bring you great."

" Can't tell us where the raw material comes."

" From Ireland materials community got tired from. North Carolina and now Illinois in. Blurry and then and bit tired from time. Tennessee and -- yet. And it's all Stewart out in powder form up there in silent honor warm days and -- Brian and then here you -- that the actual mixing operate. Our -- On and look. And I'll what little puppy. The big beginning and it's like these red. Walking behind minutes. We get it on. And you have to worry about Bob there are --"

" Let me get a lot Bob appreciate it hi and it's not I thought we overall to be anything left over its meaning in life that."

" And -- names read in panel regal qualities security. Pardoning the -- our late night. Well. Here and here we've got that make any filters they'll be used to -- these things here that you."

" I think about things actually magnets right the other make it -- me. Metal and that would mean then there is there much do you deal."

" Well there's enough that it applies -- beat back in the final process and beat back in the final practice it downgrade the quality product yeah."

" And and color does not make seconds everything that had the defect gets broken up right at great. Does this worry then goes right from here to where they put it in the actual molds from a year -- artillery into the story being. And storage tank to the holding area. -- approximately played for the 48 hours from there we put that in the last. Final gasping distribution and -- tell us what's happening in the catch up cash out we will get. -- let down through the respect the distribution line to answer we'll build a wall. Either it truly not final. Why aren't you will use. That in itself from the black. And these gentlemen are working at a pretty fast pace here right guys in because now the -- of these people working at this that directly tied into the they can that they that are. On a daily basis of this of the very good report that we have in this community and great and then once they. This glorious put into the mold how long does that stand mold normal kind of odd that sixty minute or. The process that and we'll drain out the excess left. And fifteen plane and it -- at are accurate at creating Pratt says they -- Clark. That the."

" Pretty bad space now what you call this area is to extract area maccast but what these men doing they're rolling out Greenpeace. At this point to remove the top floor."

" And they'll be getting ready to punch the -- all than me overflow hole so there you -- lavatory. Very that the latter parade it started as a liquid is AM and is now."

" And -- product here."

" And from from here obviously they're cutting in the -- was still soft but what happens next to it it goes through the drying process and then not."

" Is that blade that partner ray department work glaze applied."

" And we place and you yell for final with eight. It verification. Meaning actually turning into a glass like material right."

" Okay at this point. All of those who basically vanished toilet their lavatory -- and what happens here -- the quality -- back -- area. Where. You will use the Bob pound feet ex Communists out. That there could be -- product because it was not a friend solid. And we can't -- the that was good."

" Thousand dollars. So what happens that our that backpack. Well pol pot -- it will happen. The ones that are good a lot of big pieces now we'll be half on the water can't speak murdered at her late."

" And at that particular point and we'll we'll be dining area -- wanted to prevent. --"

" Ready to look at least bit elastic at the last epidemic pure platinum that we see ceramic tile floor and wall."

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