Reply #162: Bottom line

[Pavulon]

in what I do there are three large players. Germany, US, and Japan. We make equipment used by aerospace companies and other specialized manufacturers. China has not developed the technology to do this on an industrial scale yet. They are where japan was in 50's. The Germans, traditionally, are the benchmark. They have been for 80 years. Because of economic trends their very high end equipment is now much more expensive than the high end product we make. They still make innovative systems.

Germany has a large technical base in material handling and tooling and you just don't clone that.