On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:18:45 GMT, "Edwin Pawlowski"
wrote:


"Prometheus" wrote in message

Industrial grade equipment (excluding forklifts, for the most part)
almost always has a made in the USA tag on it, as far as I've seen in
any factory around here. I can't imagine using a brake press that was
made in China out of plastic and tin. Maybe it is all dying out, but
it really doesn't seem like it on the production floor.



More and more machines are being made overseas. In my business, molding foam
plastics, the dozen of so US manufacturers are all gone. Last one was
closed about a dozen years ago.

I can buy machines from Austria, Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea.

It is good to see that companies like Minster are still around but others
have shut the doors. Heald, and many like them are long gone.

HE&M is still making some damn nice bandsaws with a flag on them- and
the HEM guys still come out to do PMs and such. A lot of the other
machines are older, so I suppose it's possible the companies are no
longer around. But this area is still booming like crazy when it
comes to manufacturing, and it's hard to believe the hype when I see
the huge amounts of spin that the news programs are using when they
report layoffs around here. I live in a small town, so I usually know
someone that works at any given place, and there is usually a very
good reason for layoffs that has nothing to do with China or Korea.