First it was the Japanese, then the Koreans and now the Chinese.

At first they purchased the hydraulic components, then they made bad one, then better, and finally very good quality ones.

Japanese have done this, they buy few components. Koreans are 70% as far as the Japanese. Chinese 25-35%, soon ehtye will be 70%, and then higher, as with the japanese and koreans.

So US and eurpoean makers can not lie down on the job at all, or they will lose the market.

I feel we have already lost the market,

we develope the technology, and sell it to companies that produce it overseas,

we are becoming a consumer country, and getting away from manufacturing, sad but true.