Steel rod life expectancy

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Originally Posted by Bill Edgeworth

Third party audit/inspection and quality control companies are now a huge industry in China. You can get just about any ISO or ASTM test you want done there now. You can have tests done during and post production……whatever you want and even more commonly inspection of container loading to make sure you don’t get ripped off. Even Chinese companies use these services themselves now to make sure their sub-contractors don’t rip them off. There is a full spectrum of manufacturing there from absolute top level quality manufacturing to companies that can’t make anything but garbage. If you have something from China that junk it’s probably because the number one criteria of the guy selling it to you was getting it at the lowest possible price.
Interesting thing going on there now especially in Guangdong Province is that lots of big corporations are now moving out to places like Vietnam because they can make things even cheaper.

So based on you comments about quality and consistency they are probably less concerned about the quality than they are the price.

Good explanation and I agree; just tried to give the Cliff note's version.