Maybe so, but a lot of their stuff is the same castings as everything else made in that part of the planet. Compare: http://www.powermatic.com/us/en/c/planers/

Maybe so, but a lot of their stuff is the same castings as everything else made in that part of the planet. Compare: http://www.powermatic.com/us/en/c/planers/P260/?reset=true http://www.powermatic.com/us/en/c/planers/P260/?reset=true https://www.grizzly.com/search?q=((category:"Planers"))+AND+(brand:Grizzly)+AND+(planer_size:"20+in.") https://www.grizzly.com/search?q=((category:"Planers"))+AND+... As near as I can tell, the 20" planers differ primarily in what color they're painted. I say that having used and wrenched on both in various shops I've worked in. I also have firsthand experience with HolyTek's 24" thicknessing planer (no direct link, because god forbid the web actually worked the way it did in 1998), and it sure looks to be the same machine as Grizzly's offering in that size and horsepower rating: http://www.holytek.com.tw/product.html?cid=2 http://www.holytek.com.tw/product.html?cid=2 click single and double sided planer https://www.grizzly.com/search?q=((category:"Planers"))+AND+(brand:Grizzly)+AND+(planer_size:"24+in.")+AND+(horsepower:"10+HP") https://www.grizzly.com/search?q=((category:"Planers"))+AND+... Grizzly may be organizationally and financially independent of the other vendors, but they sure seem to share manufacturing or sub it out to the same foundries and machining outfits.