Stanley Moving Production of Craftsman Wrenches Back to the US From China

vtcnc said:
Huge difference Will...Sears' logo is farmhouse, airbnb's logo is an A-Frame. :D
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Does that mean Sears will be renting out farm houses now? :)
 
I hope my Lowes starts carrying Craftsman tools, Orchard Supply just closed (owned by Lowes) and they used to carry them
M
 
markba633csi said:
I hope my Lowes starts carrying Craftsman tools, Orchard Supply just closed (owned by Lowes) and they used to carry them
M
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Oh interesting, your local Lowes doesn't have Craftsman tools? The SB&D Craftsman tools are sold only at Lowes, for now anyway. They should have started carrying them late last year. I miss Osh! Osh sold the Sears Craftsman tools since they used to be owned by Sears.
 
Superburban said:
how about 20% that estimate! Costs more to ship a container across the US, then it does to get it from China. I'm sure this is from port city, to port city. Oceanic shipping is done by volume, not weight.

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I bet the steel tariffs may be a big factor. The advanced methods, along with better control of quality by keeping manufacturing in house, is another big factor. I read that most manufacturing in China, you have to share plans, methods, and technology with the Chinese government. Thats just part of the cost of doing business with a communist government.
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May have changed by now, when I ran the PMO when we built the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing in all of China in 2000 the technology we were able to bring into the China was controlled by DoD, managed by a small group within called the Naval Research. The group were mostly all high power specialist from the academia world. For example, the product we introduced in the new facility must be 3 generations behind our mature products. We spent some time with those experts, who most of them never work in the industry, but very knowledgeable.

Any change to machine set up for the next generation product must be approved by DoD. DoC, through they control the export classifications and restrictions, they are still under the mandate from DoD on anything that could be of possible value to the Chinese military.

I lived there for 4 years.
 
I guess my local Lowes does carry Craftsman now- how did I miss that? LOL asleep at the wheel
Just shows how often I buy tools
 
kd4gij said:
Could be because there PROTO plant is near there :dunno:
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Stanley has (or at least used to have) quite a bit of infrastructure around the Dallas / Fortworth area, even extending up to Wichita Falls. A lot of non-production jobs in the plants were outsourced to third parties... like maintenance, janitorial, caffeteria etc. which would take advantage (at least used to) of very low cost local labor.

Husky tools at Home Depot were for quite a long time made by stanley... I don't know if they still are.

I had the oppertunity to see the inner workings of several Taiwan and Chinese tool plants 20 or so years ago. Definitely no OSHA in either country.

My father designed a hand wrench plant to be built in China many years ago. The first thing the Chinese government threw a fit over was the workers quarters (all plants in China have workers quarters because many workers come a fair way from rural areas). The workers rooms were basically 4' x 8' boxes... completely unacceptable!!! The thought that workers would have private rooms was outrageous. They were forced to change their design to large rooms of bunks stacked 2 high like military boot camp. Individual rooms would cause an uproar with every other plant of any type in China.
 
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