If you view manufacturing and assembly of Chinese parts now a days, it's as good or better than USA. The USA went thru a period of quality problems in various areas in the past. The days of Japanese and Chinese bad quality parts are over. Like it or not. These countries have gone past us due to our own fault. Korea is close. Many companies use Japanese and other foreign machining tools for price and equal or better quality. Chinese, Japanese and Korean construction and farming machinery is all over the place. All of the products we consider as traditional Made in the USA have lots of foreign parts in them. So just buy what you want at a place with good return policies.
Top Milling Machine Manufacturers
BYJC. Country: China. Founded: 1949. ...
QIQIHAR NO. Country: China. Founded: 1950. ...
Mazak. Country: Japan. Founded: 1919. ...
Okuma. Country: Japan. Founded: 1918. ...
SMTCL. Country: China. Founded: 1933. ...
WZ. Country: China. Founded: 1952. ...
DMG MORI. Country: Germany. Founded: 1956. ...
Makino. Country: Japan. Founded: 1930.
Companies call themselves "global" . This is a buzz word for moving away from USA costs.
"Timken — A global manufacturer of bearings and power transmission equipment. Timken now incorporates products formerly made by Torrington and Fafnir.
Timken manufactures in 33 countries around the world. The quality of a Timken bearing remains consistently high regardless which factory bearings are produced. Timken was formed in 1899 in the USA and still has its head office in Canton, Ohio -USA."
The story they all give, including Steele Rubber, is "the foreign stuff is made to our specifications."
So as I say, move into the groove and stop worrying. Not much at Walmart, Costco, Home Depot or Amazon is American made.
The large Aerospace company I worked for 20 years ago had little or no Brown and Sharp, Cincinnati, Bridgeport, Rockwwell left... went to Japanese cheaper price and better tolerances.
