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Old 06-04-2012, 05:45 AM
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romanojg
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Originally Posted by MarleneC
I'm not sure Viking sold out to a Chinese company but the machines are made in China. Most of the machines are made overseas now and possibly Bernina may not be one of those in China. That is something to ask about with any machine. Pfaff and Singer are also owned by the same company that owns Viking.
I have one of the latest machines and it was made in Sweeden. Viking didn't sell out; they are having the machines assembled there. They don't make the parts there and Viking still checks for quality to make sure it stays high. I believe in buying American made whenever possible. I have a jeep and a ford; all american but I guarantee you that if research were done there would be parts on at least one of them that were made in China, Japan, etc. That's the way it is today. It's really hard to buy anything where no other country has had their hands on the product in one way or the other. We have to have faith in some of the companies that we buy for that no matter where they have things "assembled" at that they'll guarantee the quality will be the same. If not, then we had better all buy our FW, treadles, etc because that's what we'll be left to sew on and even alot of them have been made overseas.

Point in case; how many of you drink diet sodas? They all have aspartame in them, which has formalcahyde in it. Aspartame was made overseas by a country that won't use it in their diet drinks; they use Stevia. This is a verifiable fact. We are affected constantly by things that have been made/produced in a country that doesn't have a good track record.

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