Here here!
Thing is... we've sold our manufacturing to CHEAP outsourced labor in every corner of the world.
Even the Zaino towels are manufactured in Korea.
Not so terribly different than China. I find it a little funny that with all the talk of NOTHING touching your car, inside or out, other than microfiber, that the Zaino blondes (from what I can tell) are 100% cotton.
Myself, I'd LOVE to only have cotton. My wife would be the happiest person on EARTH because she can't STAND microfiber! :laughing: Her hands are all cut up and rough from handling thousands upon thousands of papers a day and MF towels make her skin crawl!
I remember in the 90's when the us CAFE standards were cracking down on fleet fuel economy. The US manufacturers had in no way figured out how to keep making huge V8 cars that get European 2 liter fuel economy. The 'out' as it may.... was that IF a vehicle had more than a certain percentage of its parts made outside the borders of the US then THAT vehicle DID NOT have to fall under the US CAFE standards.
One of the darlings of the industry was the Ford Crown Victoria. I mean all the big families drove one, and literally every government agency had a whole fleet, (still does). So how in the world did they keep selling that big V8 gas hog when it fell well outside the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards? Well by outsourcing so many parts that it qualified as an 'import'. They even shifted manufacturing to Mexico just to make sure! True story.
Remember when Wal-Mart was on a "Made in the USA" campaign? Going into small towns and putting dozens of local businesses out of business they acted like it was all a good thing, and had "Made in the USA" banners all over the store. Now days you'll search high and low to find ANYTHING with such a label!!!
Having a product made in China doesn't have to mean it's inferior. Although... all to often that IS what it means. They have invested in and built some of the most advanced manufacturing plants on the planet, and are capable of making the finest products anywhere. At the same time, they can offer cost that lures retailers away from *quality* and more towards *profit*.
Take for instance if you can buy a 600gsm MF towel at $1.25 in China and another at $2.45 in Korea, or even yet another one for $6.00 made in Korea which one would you buy? How would you know one is any better than the other? Assuming that the raw materials came from the same place, are manufactured to the same specification, then all *should* be the same product.
(SHOULD being the operative word.) :dunno:
I'm not a painter, but maybe a high solids would be worth a look. :dunno:
