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Did I hear right on CBS tonight that Buck has / is moved/moving all it's operations back to the US?
 
You heard correctly.

Buck Knives was facing the pressure of getting its labor costs down about a dozen years ago. The company began shipping up to half its production to China.

Domestic customers — many of them fans of the company’s well-known hunting knives — weren’t happy. They wanted their product made in America.

“Hunters are rednecks, and they don’t like anything with that C word on it,” said Chuck Buck, the company chairman, whose grandfather founded the company in 1902.

So over the past several years, Buck Knives has taken steps to bring all of its hunting-knife production back and much of its other production to its plant in Post Falls in northern Idaho, where the company moved from Southern California in 2005. Previously, 30 percent of the hunting-knife output came from China.
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The rest here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/10/23/1850121/made-in-china.html


These are only few, but the trend of U.S. companies moving their operations back home will grow from a trickle to a flood in the coming years. In a nutshell, China added out of control inflation and even higher shipping costs to their corrupt and inefficient modus operandi. And Mexico has become a dangerous hell hole that no American executive wants to ever visit. All the while, readily available qualified labor and record low energy (power) costs are making the U.S. the real bargain destination. Anyone thinking this is wishful thinking on my part Google "renaissance of American manufacturing" and read up. It's happening right now.
 
Buck good for U.S. I WILL be buying more Bucks. Now on the other hand case puts a new line in china I won't be buying any more case knives..
 
Halberdier said:
These are only few, but the trend of U.S. companies moving their operations back home will grow from a trickle to a flood in the coming years. In a nutshell, China added out of control inflation and even higher shipping costs to their corrupt and inefficient modus operandi. And Mexico has become a dangerous hell hole that no American executive wants to ever visit. All the while, readily available qualified labor and record low energy (power) costs are making the U.S. the real bargain destination. Anyone thinking this is wishful thinking on my part Google "renaissance of American manufacturing" and read up. It's happening right now.
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This is misleading. USA has had a very strong manufacturing sector for decades now. The difference is that it's making more goods than ever with fewer people than ever, the result of very high productivity across the board.

Regarding Buck, however, I think the quote really tells a huge part of the story. Perhaps all of it. Knife consumers want a Buck that says "USA" on it, not "China". And if that's what the customers want, that's what Buck will give.
 
shecky said:
This is misleading. USA has had a very strong manufacturing sector for decades now. The difference is that it's making more goods than ever with fewer people than ever, the result of very high productivity across the board.

Regarding Buck, however, I think the quote really tells a huge part of the story. Perhaps all of it. Knife consumers want a Buck that says "USA" on it, not "China". And if that's what the customers want, that's what Buck will give.
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Ha? Where did I say we don't have a strong manufacturing sector? Our GDP is double that of China for a reason. These is however a large segment of American manufacturing that moved to countries like China and Mexico, including most large knife makers. It's that one that is beginning to eye a return home.

As far as Buck, yes, they are caving to public demand. Good for us for voting with our dollars.
 
Always had good luck with their products, and own a bunch of their U.S. made stuff. My 110 is my oldest knife in my collection and has seen a ton of use. Now I have more reasons to like them and buy more.
 
I'm going to start buying more Buck knives to support the local economy. Good for them.
 
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