Klein tools

[Brian Roth]

MAN...I want to give them benefit of the doubt...Cut and pasted:

Q: What does ‘Made in the USA’ mean?​

A: When our products say ‘Made in the USA,’ they are, in fact, made in the USA. It is illegal to mislabel a product's “Country of Origin”. According to the FTC, “for a product to be called Made in USA, or claimed to be of domestic origin without qualifications or limits on the claim, the product must be ‘all or virtually all’ made in the U.S. The term ’United States’, as referred to in the Enforcement Policy Statement, includes the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories and possessions.” You can learn more here.

Q: How many of your tools are made in the USA?​

A: The vast majority of the products we sell are made in the USA. The exact percentage changes frequently as we insource some products to our USA plants and add new products to our lineup. Klein has introduced many new US-manufactured products in recent years (hole-making, screwdrivers, fish tapes, utility wrenches, buckets, bags, etc.). We have invested in four new US manufacturing facilities in the past decade, and have invested heavily in new equipment and tooling in our plants to expand our capacity and quality.

Q: Why are some of your tools made overseas?​

A: Like most global companies, we do source some products abroad, but Klein Tools makes 14 times more products here in the United States than we do in any other country. For any of our outsourced products, we invest our time and money into the design and quality of those products so that when you buy a Klein tool you’ll know what all the professionals know… when you pick up a Klein, it'll never let you down.

We live in an international business environment and Klein is expanding throughout the world selling products that are made in the USA. While we would like to manufacture every product we sell in the USA, it is just not possible. However, Klein Tools manufactures more SKUs of tools used in electrical applications here in the United States than any of our competitors.

With few, if any, exceptions, the products we source are new additions to our lineup or tools which we may not have the capabilities to manufacture ourselves immediately. Our job is to supply American tradespeople with the best tools available anywhere in the world, and we manufacture these tools ourselves, in the USA, when at all possible.

Q: Is Klein Tools shipping jobs overseas?​

A: Klein Tools has never closed a manufacturing facility in the United States and sent jobs overseas, and we have no intention of doing so in the future.

You can read more about Klein Tools and its commitment to US Manufacturing online at ProTools Review or clicking the icon below.


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I'm just SO tired of chinese crap. Had a TV set start smoking recently ( I now unplug anything in my hacienda at night). Borrow a screwdriver from a friend for a "quick" project...it breaks. Another project for a friend...replacing a wall switch. Wired it in correctly, and it immediately caught on fire,


Made in China = junk.

Bri

 

[gyraf]

I feel your pain.

From reading your FTC link I can see that quite a few well-known companies are on very-thin ice when claiming US made

Around here (Denmark) rules are slightly more laxed, rules allow 15% foreign-parts cost relative to final price. Which is unfortunately interpreted by some as if re-badging a particularly cheap piece of s*** qualifies it for instant re-patronizing

/Jakob E.

 

[cyrano]

I have a number of KEF speakers. They're all made in Denmark.

Yet some have a label "Made in the UK" and some even have a label "Made in Belgium". Under these labels, the imprinted "Made in Denmark" is still present and very visible when you remove the cheap labels.

I don't care where stuff comes from. And I don't expect cheap stuff to outperform expensive stuff, but it happens. I do get mad when expensive stuff is worthless and that happens too.

I just bought some bits. Small security bits, Apple's Pentalobe etc. No kit had everything I wanted, so I had to buy several. Most of these aren't even real metal. They're sintered and these usually fail on the first use, at least in my hands. I haven't found decent ones yet. The usual tool companies make those, but if I have to order them from several places, transport is so expensive that I might as well throw away the stuff I'm trying to fix and buy new stuff.

 

[Brian Roth]

I just bought some bits. Small security bits, Apple's Pentalobe etc. No kit had everything I wanted, so I had to buy several. Most of these aren't even real metal. They're sintered and these usually fail on the first use, at least in my hands. I haven't found decent ones yet. The usual tool companies make those, but if I have to order them from several places, transport is so expensive that I might as well throw away the stuff I'm trying to fix and buy new stuff.

As I mentioned, I have more than a few Klein tools in my kit. One I find very useful came with multiple "security bits". I don't know if it includes Apple bits because I never have to crack open any Apple products.

I will say that kit is very high quality. It wasn't 99 cents crap from Hazard Fraught:

https://imgur.com/gallery/A8AJw

I LOVE that parody ad!

Bri