{"id":19493,"date":"2020-04-03T12:42:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global.sharp\/were_sharp\/?p=19493"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T03:42:17","slug":"sharp-reaches-1-million-microwave-oven-drawers-production-milestone-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/2020\/04\/03\/19493\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharp Reaches 1 million Microwave Oven Drawers Production Milestone in United States"},"content":{"rendered":"

On February 25, 2020, Sharp Manufacturing Company of America (SMCA) took time out to celebrate with their employees a production milestone accomplishment \u2013 1 million microwave oven drawers!\u00a0 This is the most recent milestone for SMCA, established in 1979, as Sharp\u2019s primary manufacturing facility in North America.\u00a0 Over the facility\u2019s 40-year history, SMCA has employed as many as 2,000 employees at one time and has produced over 30.5 million microwave ovens, including the drawer product, for North and South American markets.<\/p>\n

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SMCA members gather to celebrate 1 million microwave drawers production<\/p><\/div>\n

The concept for the Memphis, TN original drawer product was conceived in 1998 by then SEMCA Marketing AVP Anne Howard and SMCA\u2019s own Harry Hessen, AVP of Product Planning.<\/p>\n

A trip to the 1998 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show had inspired the two. \u201cWe were walking the show and we realized that there were a number of products in drawers \u2013 refrigerators, warming drawers, dishwashers \u2013 and we said to each other, we should do a microwave in a drawer,\u201d said Hessen.<\/p>\n

It took a few years to get the drawer to the consumer market, but their efforts created a microwave product that quickly became a top seller. Manufacturing of the first microwave drawers began in March of 2005 and continues today.<\/p>\n

SMCA currently focuses on high-end ovens and provides product for 14 OEMS in addition to their Sharp lineup.<\/p>\n

SMCA was joined by guests from SEMCA, SECL, and several local Sharp groups to celebrate.\u00a0 Following group commemorative photos and comments from SMCA\u2019s Sr. Vice President Mike Kelly and SHCA\u2019s President Jim Sanduski, the entire SMCA campus enjoyed a catered luncheon together.\u00a0 We all look forward to the continued growth of our SMCA footprint in the kitchen cooking appliance arena.<\/p>\n

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Scenes from luncheon<\/p><\/div>\n

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SMCA Microwave Drawer website<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On February 25, 2020, Sharp Manufacturing Company of America (SMCA) took time out to celebrate with their employees a production milestone accomplishment \u2013 1 million microwave oven drawers!\u00a0 This is the most recent milestone for SMCA, established in 1979, as Sharp\u2019s primary manufacturing facility in North America.\u00a0 Over the facility\u2019s 40-year history, SMCA has employed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-united-states"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.global.sharp\/were_sharp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}