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While at Wal-Mart today I ran through the hardware section to grab some 3M sandpaper and noticed a 10″ Crescent stamped “Made in China”. I’d heard this had happened but this was te first one I’d actually seen. Sad to see another american icon outsourced 🙁
Conductor562 wrote:
While at Wal-Mart today I ran through the hardware section to grab some 3M sandpaper and noticed a 10″ Crescent stamped “Made in China”. I’d heard this had happened but this was te first one I’d actually seen. Sad to see another american icon outsourced 🙁
Happened a while ago Apex tool group has been buying brands for a while now and value engineering….
You may be suprised by all the brands they control.
I’m guess Cooper and H.K. Porter are Chinese now as well.
Conductor562 wrote:
I’m guess Cooper and H.K. Porter are Chinese now as well.
They are a mixed bag, with factories all over the place. I think H K still makes bolt cutters in the US