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While these types of horror stories are everywhere - some of the best consumer goods manufacturers (by quality and price) are in China / Taiwan. While working t

While these types of horror stories are everywhere - some of the best consumer goods manufacturers (by quality and price) are in China / Taiwan. While working to find injection molding and CNC suppliers - people continually referred me to their vetted suppliers in Asia. The general consensus in my work was that Asia wants it more than we do. There are a lot of superfluous American manufacturers that survive based on old relationships and word-of-month, not on quality, price & innovative marketing - the former ones are becoming harder and harder to win with. The Chinese manufacturing sector is ultra-competitive with each other, more than in the US, and this leads them to their position - beyond just being cheap labor. This is at least my experience.

forgottenpaswrd 15y ago
"The general consensus in my work was that Asia wants it more than we do. There are a lot of superfluous American manufacturers that survive based on old relationships and word-of-month, not on quality, price & innovative marketing " The general consensus in my work(engineering on a German multinational company) is that ANYTHING that is worth something on China is made from Europeans, Americans, or Japanese people. This multinational is going to China because you don't pay taxes for something like 5 years, minimum taxes after 10 years there and so on... Of course, once there they steal your plans and know how(as they force you to have Chinese partners), and a Chinese company starts making exactly what you used to, with very poor quality but at half or quarter of the price(they got their knowhow free from western greediness).