I'm just saying there is a big difference between Stahlwille opening a facility in India versus out-sourcing their wrenches to some other company. If they are just paying another company to produce wrenches with their name on it for less money and not involved in the internal workings, then shame on them. But if it's their own facility run by their own standards then the COO means very little.
The big savings for companies going to countries like India is inexpensive labor. I work in manufacturing (not tools or steel), and plants all over the world in my business are capable of good quality. If anything, dealing with vendors in countries like China and India, they can have more QC in place due to the low cost of labor. I'm not saying it's right or good, but at rock bottom labor prices you can have ten times the inspectors as a North American plant at lower cost.
Anyways, sorry to take this thread off course. I have no first hand experience with any Stahlwille products, so I can't comment on their quality from either COO. But I would just say don't sell yourself short on assuming certain COO have only bad things, and some only have good things. If a set of wrenches from India show up I wouldn't automatically assume they are junk compared to the identical "made in Germany" ones everyone is cooing over here. It's possible they are, but would be interesting to see an actual strength / material comparison instead of just making broad sweeping assumptions.
