Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Do you happen to know
which series of EBCs are made in Jolly 'Ol England, and which are cast in Sinoland (or does it vary even
within each series?)??
There is a webpage -- but I cannot find it at the moment -- where EBC indicates how to identify which rotors are sourced from the UK and which are not; it has to do, IIRC, whether the "EBC" is imprinted on the edge of the rotor or on the flat surface of the disk. However, I did find this statement on the EBC website:
Originally Posted By: EBC
EBC manufacture many of its rotors in either its own sister company foundry in the UK or in Italy, all rotors are machined and finished in the UK and in the USA.
Where castings or finished rotors have to be bought in to complement the range, the strictest quality controls you can imagine are applied to ensure the safety and quality of the parts we sell. There are ZERO aftermarket casting companies active in the USA much to our regret. The castings we source come mostly from our sister foundry in the UK by a large margin, then some from Italy, some from Japan, some from Australia, some from the Czech Republic and some from China. We source QUALITY parts from well known and proven vendors and we are responsible for and guarantee those parts to fit and perform as expected.
link to the above quotation
Originally Posted By: dailydriver
Also,
none of the Ate rotors are still made in Europe (mine were labeled as such, but they are now ~4 years old or so)?
I am sure that you are right. The issue is whether ATE (or any other vendor) just buys parts from a congeries of vendors (probably selecting largely on the basis of price), or whether it has its "own" (subject to the ownership limitations of the PRC) factory, a single PRC source, with the production and quality control under the strict supervision and control of ATE employees who report to the head office in Germany,
