Originally Posted by maxdustington
Originally Posted by Trav
Nothing wrong with China either if the company is producing the product in its own factory with its own QC. Companies like Hilti, Makita, Milwaukee, Nikon, Canon, Hella/ Behr,
and thousands of others are manufacturing product in their own owned factories in China.
Example.
https://www.hilti.group/content/hil...te-information/production-locations.html
http://www.makita.biz/company/abroad.html
Makita makes stuff in the USA, their 5" rat tail grinder and high power 4 1/2" grinder are both made in USA. I get what you are saying, but you are basically making a magic soil argument when you assume that you can transplant a western factory to a third world country and everything will be exactly the same. There is a reason why the labour is cheaper there, and it's not racism or colonialism. You also conveniently left out Dewalt which has a ton of US made tools.
The flagship of a tool line often times will be made somewhere else than the box store black friday junk. It might not be made in USA but made in Taiwan or Eastern Europe, somewhere where the wages and quality are better than the usual suspects.
The winds have changed old man! It's OK to say China makes garbage now that manufacturing is returning to western countries.
EDIT: I just put new Monroe shocks on my car and all of them were made in USA. [censored] Bilstein?
The Chinese are more than capable of creating (or replicating) quality goods.
The politics behind whether one agrees or not is a completely different discussion.