The end of "cheap" Chinese machines?

[Bri963]

Hasten to add im not a mad "pro china" person i get it we want british manufacturing. However There is only Komatsu and JCB, JCB who are moving things out the UK and Komatsu who only build a certain few products. Every manufacture will be using china somthing or others its just the way it is.

Ahem, Caterpillar. Not excavators any more, but shovels from 906 to 920, backhoes, and ADT’s.

 

[Bri963]

And the fact Cat has done the same in China. I guess alot of the other main manufacturers won't be far behind in following suit. Sad really

The big growth markets are India and China, which is why companies are moving that way. It’s not just about manufacturing costs, as the gap is closing quite considerably.

 

[Gecko]

Got a mate in CCTV installs and says one of first questions he gets now on big jobs is where is your products made ? we cannot have any chinese manufactured product onsite..

Chinese cameras are banned on all Oz Govenment sites because either they stream back to a chinese server (via Venezuela in the case of mine), or can be remotely reprogramed to do so.

 

[Regy53]

One thing I noted in china which was so weird

Even with a vpn I couldn’t find things on the internet, including some facebook groups

 

[Lancs Lad]

One thing I noted in china which was so weird

Even with a vpn I couldn’t find things on the internet, including some facebook groups

They'll be waiting for you next time

 

[kabin man]

Chinese cameras are banned on all Oz Govenment sites because either they stream back to a chinese server (via Venezuela in the case of mine), or can be remotely reprogramed to do so.

Remember the spyware found in China supplied cranes?
I sure i read somewhere that they couldn't work out why sometimes they slowed down or played up for no reason.some deep investigations found
modems buried in the systems.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/us-ne...devices-on-seaport-cranes-house-report-finds/

 

[V8Druid]

Remember the spyware found in China supplied cranes?
I sure i read somewhere that they couldn't work out why sometimes they slowed down or played up for no reason.some deep investigations found
modems buried in the systems.
https://nypost.com/2024/09/12/us-ne...devices-on-seaport-cranes-house-report-finds/

" ZPMC owns roughly 80% of cargo cranes at American ports, ......... devices found attached to the cranes include cellular modems that were “not requested by US ports or included in contracts … [and] constitute a significant backdoor security vulnerability that undermines the integrity of port operations,” the report said. “no domestic manufacturing alternatives” for cranes in the US. .......... .....authors called for more to be done to cull the American reliance on Beijing’s seaport technology, calling on the Department of Commerce to commission a study on “building a US crane manufacturing base” complete with plans to develop “the necessary expertise and market consumption. "

FERK!!!

 

[hiluxman]

My Chinese built cat keeps me updated on what I've done. I'd rather it didn't but its all built in.