[TheForge] Interesting insight on tool manufacturers

[Dave Smucker]

I have 4 Metabo Grinders - and love them - expensive but tough.  An old German Company - a small company for many years and made a very high quality product.  As far I know they still make a very high quality product both in Germany and also in Shanghai (2004).  In 2016 they were acquired by Hitachi.  That is the way the world goes today.  If I need another grinder in my life time I would still buy a Metabo.

Dave Smucker
Brasstown, NC



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I have mostly DeWalt  power tools, and learned  a couple years ago, that DeWalt is owned by Black & Decker, as are Stanley and many of the
other brands.      

I used to only  buy Petersen Vice Grips, as the off breed knock offs let me down,  releasing when I didn't want them to, and not releasing when I needed to them release.  Petersen Vice Grips  were owned  and manufactured by a Nebraksa company , that got bought up by Irwin Tools....  and I can't remember who now owns them,  but all of the Nebraska Vicegrip production moved to China.  

So with the back door tooling of Vice Grips,  walking out the back door of one Chinese company into the door of another Chinese company,  we can now buy pretty much a quality "Vice Grip"  generic knock offs directly from China  on ebay.

Reading Saint Philip's  link, I learned that   4 mega companies 
basically have 50% of the world tools.  Protect the giant Corps with lower taxes. 

Dann Johnson   

On 2017-09-28 09:05, Robert Oppenheimer wrote:

> Tag line: "Repent as necessary" LOL!
> 
> On 9/27/2017 9:48 PM, Saint Phlip wrote: 
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>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gear/a28359/megabrands-too
>> ls-graphic/?src=nl&mag=pop&list=nl_pnl_news&date=092717
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