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Country of production should be listed with item information online (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Beco@piefed.social to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

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I wanted to buy a drills to make a hole in a wall, nothing special, but was interested if I could find anything made in EU and it was so hard!

Firstly I looked for polish (local to me) producer - there is none at the moment. So I tried Germany - traditionally industrialized, sure there must be a lot od options. Turns out it is really difficult to find information about production online - basically if it is not provided, it’s produced in china. I even found some small family business from Germany with photos of it owners etc but had to find a photo of back of the item in peoples’ reviews to confirm - it’s producing tools in China.

This is what I settled with - company that produces most of their tools in China but have special line of items produced in Germany with clear information on it. So I succeeded but it was pretty disappointing experience.

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[-] Michal@programming.dev 2 points 14 hours ago

Country of origin isn't always so clear cut. Even for drill bits, the materials, iron ore, packaging can come from different countries, then turned into product in another then packaged elsewhere.

[-] Michal@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago

And one is already missing? Classic.

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago

crazy how you had to drill so deep to find them

[-] Lommy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Ba-dum-RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[-] vorpuni@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 16 points 1 day ago

Brands love to brag they're European but sell you Chinese tools, most of the time they're not even their own designs.

It's annoying that they don't have to be more transparent about this.

[-] MrMakabar@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 day ago

Most of the time the companies put country of origins like Germany very prominently. So if they do not do that, they are probably from China or so.

[-] Droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

Made in china, packaged/assembled in eu is a trap Ive fallen for a few times

[-] CocaineShrimp@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

I'd look into the EU / German laws to confirm the labelling requirements

Since the US-Canada tariffs, a lot of products in Canada have been identifying themselves as Canadian. However, as we're learning now - "Made in Canada" vs "Canadian" is very different. A lot of companies have been touting themselves as "Canadian" when they just have Greg from marketing who mentioned he has a cousin that used to live in Toronto a few years ago. Even "Made in Canada" is a grey area - the product doesn't have to be 100% Canadian to qualify

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://ruko.de/ (metal drills)
https://www.famag.com/ (wood drills)
https://www.fisch-tools.com/
https://guehring.com/ (factories both in EU and China)

[-] derjules@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

My Makita drill bits are made in Germany

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