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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve C" data-source="post: 3168589" data-attributes="member: 56622">Yes some Chinese manufacture is in house.  I have been told by several outfits that have Chinese connections that the present business climate in China is pretty much if you don't fool with or somehow challenge the government you can get as big as you want to.  Play by their rules and you are OK.So Chinese optical facilities can range from the full meal deal of total in house to much smaller assembly facilities.  With regard to the latter, think of something along the lines of a large office building with office space, conference room, a CNC shop, optical lab space, and environmentally controlled assembly rooms.  Add in a shipping receiving section for the parts they have to get outside their facility to assemble their binocular.We hear of Chinese connection and manufacture of products from Japanese companies like Nikon and Kamakura.  My thought is they are likely some size variation of the above.For instance in Kruger Optical's website they speak of their "factory".  They have since moved from Sisters OR, to Beaverton OR.  I've been to the Sisters place twice.  It was housed in a two story office style building representative of the sort of building you see with offices for Doctors, lawyers, accounts and other businesses in.  They had essentially the layout I described above.  They talked of their place in China, which I gathered was pretty similar to what they had in Sisters, and probably now have in Beaverton.</blockquote>

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