Bosch also funds a company helping Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
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Love their dishwashers here in Canada. Solid company it seems.
My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?
Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita
Never saw any other company here lol
Makita is Japanese, but they make stuff where it's cheaper for them. Same with many other brands that might be German, but made in Romania, Poland or ultimately China. Usually lower end products where high end ones tend to be made in Germany.
Festool and Metabo are both German, Wadkin is British.
Decided to get the metabo battery powered tools because they're the only ones that offer an adapter to plug the tools directly (useful for stuff that stays in the shop most of the time)
Zero ragrets! They're very good!
I'm sorry, but for this stuff I'm team Makita.
Yeah you can't just change brands. It's too expensive. You get the battery. You are locked into that ecosystem. Simple as that.
That's why I just have 5 different chargers and some adapters ready to go for whatever tool is the best one.
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Is parkside really the only other option to put next to Bosch? I mean, I love the middle isle as much as the next guy, Lidl own brand seems a stretch
Idk, Parkside is solid, it's impressive value. It's inexpensive, but not cheap
Fein (GER), Hilti (swiss)
Hilti is from Liechtenstein, not Swiss. General known as a great company that respects its employees though.
ah yeah, right. sry Liechtensteiners!!
Festool, Einhell
Feel free to update the meme with another brand and give a link, I'll update the post!
I think top tier is Hilti (Swiss) , expensive of course.
But Bosch, Metabo and Festool are reall good choices ayway.
Hilti is manufactured in several countries however its place of origin and HQ is in Liechtenstein.
Hilti would be up there with Festool, Fein and Mafell but they're high end high price.
Bosch, Hilti, Einhell, Metabo, KWB, Iskra, Sheppach, all European.
Hikoki and Makita are Japanese.
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TLDR: out of all of these the only real european companies are:
- Bosch (group)
- TTS tooltechnic systems (group)
- Fein (independent)
- Hilti (independent)
And makita from Japan and one of the only independent manufacturers left, as well as Fein and Hilti.
Einhell (also own Ozito) is also on its own, headquartered in Germany. Mostly made in China. But they are moving battery production to Hungary. Also planning to build tools in other Asian countries to be less dependent on China.
Metabo and Hikoki are also a company. Don't know if its based in Japan.
For some reason, I always thought Ryobi was Japanese.
Guess Iโm switching to Bosch.
Ryobi tools was japanense that was purchase by a hong kong company in the early 2000's... they also own Milwaukee.
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Hikoki (formerly Hitachi) is Japanese.
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man... all my power tools are Milwaukee since there were some crazy sales when I was starting the collection.
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
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If only you could order parkside all year around. Currently I have to wait for the product that I want to buy, to randomly appear in one of my local Lidl stores and then rush to hope to get one before they sell out. It's not a real alternative
I dunno how the lidl is over where you're at, but here they have a web shop where they sell their parkside tools.
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Parkside is shity
Bosch is the way
Vonroc is a Dutch-designed powertool brand, though their manufacturing does take place in China.
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My vacuum cleaner and drill are Bosch products. Good quality.
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