Kilde: internett.
"Now ExpoPul, the parent company of Tungsol, Mullard, and Svetlana Tubes, is facing a corporate raid and the doubtfully legal hardball tactics that often surround such things in Russia."
"It may read like a page out of a classic corporate crime thriller, but the threat is real. ExpoPul, a company whose factory in Saratov, Russia manufactures vacuum tubes under the brand names Sovtek, Electro-Harmonix, Tungsol, Svetlana, Mullard, and otherstubes that include the 6H30 "super tube"is threatened by one of the many Russian corporate "raiders" who are increasingly stealing businesses from their rightful owners." (Stereophile)
"The article makes the reader assume that the Xpo-Pul (better known as Reflektor, the manufacturing plant for New Sensor (Sovtek, Mullard/Tung-Sol reissue, Electro-Harmonix) is the only place on Earth that makes tubes for guitar amps, even though China and Slovakia are 'briefly' mentioned."
"ExpoPUL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Matthews' New Sensor Corporation, produces Sovtek, Electro-Harmonix, Tungsol, Mullard, and Svetlana tubes, which are used in amplifiers made by Fender, Peavey, Mesa Boogie, Crate, Soldano, Korg, Marshall, and many other brands."