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Electrolux factory: a page in Australia's manufacturing history that is going but never forgotten. 1  With the Electrolux factory in Orange closing in April, a photographic exhibition titled Going but never forgotten has been put together featuring images of the plant and its people in the 1950s and 60s. The factory was built in 1942 and operated until 1945 making small arms during World War II.
AMERICAN ELECTROLUX TODAY by Charles Richard Lester After 78 years (as of 2002), Electrolux-USA is no more. The beginning of the end was foreshadowed on May 31, 1985, when the Electrolux Corporation closed its red-brick mill in Old Greenwich, Connecticut which, at the time, employed 830 workers.he Electrolux Group sold the rights to the Electrolux trademark in North America to a group owned by Sarah Lee back in the 60s. The Swedish company then focused on growing its business in other parts of the world -- through growing the Electrolux trademark and making strategic acquisitions.