We have listened to lots of people in the industry, who previously made what have since become considered wild unsubstantiated promises that they do not and never will manufacture in China. Lets face it, Americans in particular are very pro American and super conscious of brand ownership and perceived manufacture, so they love to think everything is "Made in USA". It's the same back home. A lot of companies like to try and pass themselves off as being all Australian. The Gear Plus opinion is that, it's all hype, wank and marketing. We don't believe any of it is true, so we have come up with a challenge for the lot of them.

The Gear Plus challenge

We make this challenge to any and all companies involved in the audio visual industry - any manufacturer who can claim they do not get any part of their product line fully, partially manufactured or assembled in an Asian country, please send us your name and we will list it here on this page. Be assured, we are talking about components, boards, cases, knobs, switches, badges, anything.

There are very few, if any, who can make the claim of total in-house manufacture.

If your name is not listed below, we can only assume your products are not entirely manufactured by your company in it's native country of origin.

So take the challenge. Prove us wrong and we will list away.

Companies who manufacturer their products all in house in their own country.

• Currently zero.

If you think you have the right to add your company name - click here.

But wait, there's more

Some manufacturers have come back to us and suggested (rightly so) that there is no local Semiconductor / Parts industry, no electronics plastics industry etc etc etc and that basically we in Australia live in an ever diminishing electronics industry. It's all true (and was the main point of the article). But, just for the few who, may import the odd component, but still concentrate on building as much of the product as they can in Australia, we have come up with a place to list your name and your comments about what you build because, we understand the cost of your efforts and support you wholeheartedly.

Now, generally "Country of Manufacture" is determined as the place of "highest value added" aka, point of actual manufacture, aka "where the factory is"  irrespective of where the actual individual components are manufactured. But we must point out that, just because (as in some cases) the packaging costs more than the product, we do not accept it as being manufactured in Australia. The "Product" must be made in Australia.

If you are an Australian company that manufacturers in Australia and don't have your product listed here, all we can say is that your marketing departments pretty slack.