Textron To Indefinitely Pause Production at Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls & St. Cloud

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We will resume production as planned after the new year to produce units under existing customer commitments. However, once that build is completed, we will suspend operations indefinitely, and will release our manufacturing employees at the Thief River Falls and St. Cloud facilities.

Textron To Indefinitely Pause Production at Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls & St. Cloud - KVRR Local News

THIEF RIVER FALLS, Minn. (KVRR) — A major blow for workers at Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls and St. Cloud as the company announces layoffs and the suspension of snowmobile, ATV and UTV production. According to a Securities and Exchange filing, Textron, the Cessna jet maker that owns the...

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[Rkwhite]

Jeez, I would not want a sled that still needs to be produced by a bunch of peeps losing their job!

 

[Rhodesie]

merry christmas. sucks that people lose their jobs.

 

[snopro]

Yeah and companies always do it this time of the year. Maybe because they can save on Xmas bonuses

 

[papajake]

what is a dealer and owner of Arctic Cat going to do about parts and service

 

[ferniesnow]

what is a dealer and owner of Arctic Cat going to do about parts and service

Tough tittie says the kitty.........
Going to be some very disgruntled employees and customers. Tough world we live in these days.

 

[Bnorth]

Horrible news for the employees and bad news for powersports particularly sledders. Just two brands now in a duopoly means we lose in the long run.

 

[Lunch_Box]

I mean both Polaris and SkiDoo also laid people off this year and are making cuts. And you can also look past sledding. GM, Ford and Dodge all not doing well. KTM filing for bankruptcy. The list goes on. People are struggling to put food on their table combine with the industry getting greedy with prices during covid and sales are going to plummet.

 

[niner]

Tough tittie says the kitty.........
Going to be some very disgruntled employees and customers. Tough world we live in these days.

 

[Sessionsdoo]

Thats why they cost so much as they knew it would be a collector's addition

 

[niner]

Junk is what they are. Muskoka blew his up twice already. Best $1000 I ever spent was walking on my Snowcheck.

 

[jcjc1]

definitely seeing more negative posts about the quality or lack, on the catalysts than happy owners.
even if they were flawless it seems like corporate decisions were already made.

 

[lilduke]

Looks like some good pow

 

[greenthumb]

Hopefully there's some sort of consumer protection for the people who bought one of these lemons.

 

[catinthehat]

I can`t imagine why anybody would buy a new Arctic Cat now that they know there will be no support afterwards. We have been told more than once in the past couple years that parts were no longer available for many models of sleds and atv`s, not just old stuff.

 

[Grinder]

This is the reason i traded my trail 700 sxs for a popo rzr. I needed a a arm and was told look in the junk yards. 0 parts available canada and states

 

[Clode]

My friend needed an air filter for his AC sxs, it took 3 months to get it....ridiculous, no parts network at all

 

[blastoff]

That’s to bad because Yamaha is also gone
Me thinks Polaris better pull up there Panties!! Or they are next.

 

[Lem Lamb]

Pretty hard too keep a factory running if they only sell 2 or 4000 units world wide...

Not a very good business model...

More companies will fold in the weeks and months too follow as the world rescission sets in... the 3rd and 4th quarter numbers don't look good world wide...

 

[skid]

That’s to bad because Yamaha is also gone
Me thinks Polaris better pull up there Panties!! Or they are next.

I highly doubt Polaris will be next