I know that most (all?) of the major companies manufacture e-cigs in China, was just wondering if there are any companies that manufacture e-cigs in the US? If not, is it because the US is on the fence as to whether or not e-cigs are safe?
Does anyone in the US manufacture e-cigs?
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There are actually a fair number of manufacturers in the US. For the most part they deal with the mid to high products on the market and manufacture what are known on the discussion board as mods. With the low cost of labor in the Asian countries, it's doubtful that a US manufacturer could produce low end products at a price which would be competitive with the Chinese manufacturers.
No one makes the 1st-generation (cigarette look-alikes) in the West, as the Chinese make them as well as is needed, at a tenth of the cost they could be made here. There are one or two vendors who assemble them here and say the products are 'made in the USA', but it's the same as assembled cars in that respect.
One advantage of assembling them here is that QC is better, and if you spend money on that, you save it on returns, CS and image problems. But there's no one here making atties, cartos or batteries except for short-run specials.
However almost all mods (2nd-generation and 3rd-generation products) are made here, as CSKent says. In some cases production is sent back to China when the bugs have been fully worked out. They're made here because quality is by far the most important factor in these products, and it's very hard indeed to get top quality out east. Some vendors who import a lot of product virtually live on the plane back and forth to China, and the problems are all quality related.
You could get atties etc made here, and made well, but the price would be at least three times the going rate and no one would pay.
One advantage of assembling them here is that QC is better, and if you spend money on that, you save it on returns, CS and image problems. But there's no one here making atties, cartos or batteries except for short-run specials.
However almost all mods (2nd-generation and 3rd-generation products) are made here, as CSKent says. In some cases production is sent back to China when the bugs have been fully worked out. They're made here because quality is by far the most important factor in these products, and it's very hard indeed to get top quality out east. Some vendors who import a lot of product virtually live on the plane back and forth to China, and the problems are all quality related.
You could get atties etc made here, and made well, but the price would be at least three times the going rate and no one would pay.
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