I just felt like posting the webaddresses of two different Chinese manufacturers:
Jovean & Rogy
http://www.jr-china.com/ These can't even spell English (sic!), but churn out ten million MCB's and RCD's a year. Few models and few certificates gives the impression of an honest business.
Then take Yuanky
http://www.yuanky.com (Djk started a
thread about them some time ago )
They can make anything you want. This company dares to places pictures of its facilities on the net and apparently has a quality control system. Clearly, they have a degree of professionalism. Yet they have twenty different ranges of technically identical MCB's and RCD's and aren't even ashamed of telling which brand manufacturer they have copied, e.g. "Hager Model C". If you call them, I'm pretty sure they will ask you if you want the Hager logo on it too.
This begs the question: How scary are the manufacturers who haven't got any homepage? How many millions of devices do those companies make each year? How many light switches are sold as circuit breakers?
China is one of the world's leading countries. Why don't they require that all electrical products that are made in the country be tested by CCC? (Note: Tested, not necessarily certified for sale in China.) It would improve the image of Chinese products abroad, raise the safety level within the country and in the long run help domestic manufacturers compete with foreign brand names.
[This message has been edited by C-H (edited 03-03-2004).]
