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Title: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: floridagrimp on 02/06/13 20:32 UTC

http://blog.wired2fish.com/blog/bid/40864/A-Labor-of-Love-Inside-the-Zoom-Factory

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Jerry V on 02/06/13 20:38 UTC

Rather impressive I will say... thanks for sharing.

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: floridagrimp on 02/06/13 21:06 UTC

they use quite a bit of plastic. huh??

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Jerry V on 02/06/13 21:12 UTC

Quote from: floridagrimp on 02/06/13 21:06 UTC

they use quite a bit of plastic. huh??

NO DOUBT !  kinda cool to see 'em all just, "hanging out" waiting to find a home.

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: bribass on 02/07/13 00:55 UTC

the interesting facts at the bottom are the best! wow! 8,000 gallons of plastics used in 10 days... thats an avg of 800 gallons per DAY wow

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: wilks19 on 02/07/13 11:39 UTC

That was a great article/story. Thank you for posting that.  I would love to tour a company like that. 

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: floridagrimp on 02/07/13 11:53 UTC

Funny thing is, there is a large Eufaula, Alabama company that shoots more baits (at least uses more plastisol) than these guys.

Larger companies are making their own plastisol these days.

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Mic on 02/07/13 13:14 UTC

Now my question is do they remelt their sprues?

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: floridagrimp on 02/07/13 13:32 UTC

I know other large companies that don't remelt sprues, they sell them to someone...don't know about Zoom.

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: pjmcla on 02/07/13 14:09 UTC

Zoom sells their sprues / runners to a recycler. 

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Bassman2169 on 02/07/13 14:27 UTC

Kinda humanizes a big bait company.  Cool to see they do thinks like the home made guy does.  My simple mind assumed that they would use an automated process with a minimal labor force. 

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: basskat on 02/07/13 14:53 UTC

I'd dare say there's not a bass boat in the USA that doesn't have a pack of Zoom baits in it!

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Mic on 02/07/13 15:15 UTC

Thanks for posting, given me a ton of Ideas and realized that it will be a very long time to get to this point..ha ha

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: MO QWACK on 02/07/13 19:44 UTC

Very cool,by the looks of the baits on the rack it looks like their molds are two cavity ??

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: t-billy on 02/07/13 19:55 UTC

Quote from: basskat on 02/07/13 14:53 UTC

I'd dare say there's not a bass boat in the USA that doesn't have a pack of Zoom baits in it!

My boat doesn't. It does have at least 10lbs of worms in it that look an awful lot like Zoom Tricks though. ;D Except for some Z-man frogs, and Rage tail eeliminators all the plastics in my boat were made in my garage.
 Interesting article. Thanks for sharing Grimp. ---Tim.

Title: Re: Interesting, a rather large bait making operation
Post by: Jeff Little on 02/10/13 20:09 UTC

They recycle the sprues to a company that uses them to make traffic cones.  I will never look at a traffic cone the same way.  "I coulda been a speed craw!"