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Re: Made in America

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli View Post

Yep, we make a lot of our VEX and VEXpro products in China. We also design, engineer, program, test, and kit all of those products here in Texas. If you don't purchase our products because they are not "Made in the USA" (BTW, there are very strict US rules that allow you to use that sentence on a product) , then it is your loss.

Paul
We have been saying this year that our robot is "Made in China" and "Assembled in America". We certainly kept the VexPro employees employed this year as our robot BOM has a large amount of VexPro product on it...

We have said before that would could not buy the gears we used to build our own ball shifting transmissions for the price of a complete VexPro one.

We have certainly ran in to some quality issues over the past two years with the VexPro product, but the large majority of it has been excellent. Especially the Ball Shifters.

It was very obvious this year that VexPro is providing the product that teams need even though the majority of it is made in China.
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