Slovakia, ukraine and such places are now getting to the point where they are also becoming very expensive for labour, in 1998 I went to Ash in the Czech republic to show them how to do my job, at the time it was very cheap for labour rates, now they are seeing the same issues we did when they took our work, it is all going to India.

 We have an agent in India for the job I do now and the sales growth is massive, a factory in the middle of nowhere with people using Ox to move carts in the street just metres away from a state of the art millions of pounds production site to make aluminium aerosol cans. Is the skill base there to operate this equipment, not yet but it will be and when it is the labour cost will also rise.

People like to buy cheap and care not the conditions of those that make things, that is human nature.

People like to get well paid or make profits and care little how they get that money while others get paid a pitance.

 

Funnily people can decry old Technology or Basic and Cheap products while buying something that looks better and actually functions no better. Possibly has a shorter life expectancy because of 'build in obsolescence'.

ie, German/European  Manufactured Vehicles Compared to Indian Built ones.

 

Indian & Other Car Manufacturers like TATA/JLR are building in the UK now because the UK Government are more or less paying them to,

lets see how long that lasts.

 

george