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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Forrest Babcock" data-source="post: 1535846" data-attributes="member: 78230"><p>I am an Opto/Mechanical engineer at Kruger optical who came in at the beginning of the company.  I wanted to clarify that we designed the Malhauer binoculars in the USA.  We have several factories in China which we have partial ownership and also have our own Kruger paid engineers and quality personnel located at those factories to make sure the product meet our specification.  This is a way we approach getting product made in China and insure that we have US consumer quality standards consistantly met at a competitive price.  I have worked in development of optical products since before 1970 at many different quality levels and realize the intense competition in the binocular market.  I decided to go ahead and sign up and maybe help a bit on some of the discussions.</p></blockquote><p></p>