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I heard their refineries aren`t as good on quality control as ours



A rumor propagated by unemployed north american workers who, over time, became unproductive, non-caring and over-paid. All in the hope of bringing production back home. Unfortunately China has learned from north america's mistakes and unless there is an embargo of sorts, production of virtually everything will stay and continue to move there. They are also smart enough to see the value of investing in modern equipment and processes which help keep the costs down. And make no mistake about quality, they can make anything as good as anyone else. If you perceive a "quality" problem, the specification was the issue.

Many years ago in a "quality" course there was a story of an auto manufacturer contracting a Japanese company to make parts. The company said they would allow for 10% defects. The Japanese asked if they wanted the defects packed separately. The point being that they would MAKE 10% defective since that was being called for but "zero defects" was their standard.

The bottom line is this: if you get a poor quality Chinese item its because someone ordered it that way.