Case maker CaseLabs goes bankrupt

Posted on Saturday, August 11 2018 @ 11:39 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Enthusiast computer case maker CaseLabs (and its parent company) announced they're shutting down permanently. In a statement on the company's website, they reveal the default of a large client hit them at the worst possible time. Furthermore, CaseLabs claims the recently introduced aluminum tariffs, and associated material shortages, have made it impossible to continue the business due to a near 80 percent increase in costs.

CaseLabs promises to do its best to work through its backlog. Part orders should all ship, but some case orders will be cancelled. Here's the full statement:
We are very sad to announce that CaseLabs and its parent company will be closing permanently. We have been forced into bankruptcy and liquidation. The tariffs have played a major role raising prices by almost 80% (partly due to associated shortages), which cut deeply into our margins. The default of a large account added greatly to the problem. It hit us at the worst possible time. We reached out for a possible deal that would allow us to continue on and persevere through these difficult times, but in the end, it didn’t happen.

We are doing our best to ship as many orders as we can, but we won’t be able to ship them all. Parts orders should all ship, but we won’t be able to fulfill the full backlog of case orders. We are so incredibly sorry this is happening. Our user community has been very devoted to us and it’s awful to think that we have let any of you down. There are over 20,000 of you out there and we are very grateful for all the support we have received over the years. It was a great journey that we took together and we’re thankful that we got that chance.

We understand that there will likely be a great deal of understandable anger over this and we sincerely apologize. We looked at every option we had. This is certainly not what we envisioned. Some things were just out of our control. We thought we had a way to move forward, but it failed and we disabled the website from taking any more orders.

It was a privilege to serve you and we are so very sorry things turned out this way.
CaseLabs Merlin SM8


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Thomas has been messing with computer since early childhood and firmly believes the Internet is the best thing since sliced bread. Enjoys playing with new tech, is fascinated by science, and passionate about financial markets. When not behind a computer, he can be found with running shoes on or lifting heavy weights in the weight room.



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