So who manufactures fire alarms in the US still?
Honeywell isn’t the only one to have shipped off overseas.
Edwards Signaling manufactures products in the US, and their products are some of the most high quality and durable devices available.
I like Edwards quality!
I do believe simplex manufacturing is based in Mexico
I believe you are correct. If they don’t now, they certainly used to.
Also Kidde does
Simplex’s horn/strobes and most of System Sensor’s products are made in Mexico.
Simplex’s TrueAlarm smokes are made in China; says so right on the back of the smoke.
I checked a bunch of random Wheelock devices, half made in the USA, half in China. Couldn’t find a COO on any EST stuff. It’s all slowly being sent somewhere else…
Just checked a fairly recent EST SIGA-278 pull (with GE/EST co-branding), and an older http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIB-New-EST-Edwards-276B-1320-Fire-Alarm-Pull-Station-/121352204641?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection EST 276B-1320 pull (Edwards branding), both of which are made in China. I also checked a EST G1WA-VMA Genesis Alert Strobe, which was Made in China, and finally a http://www.ebay.com/itm/NIB-New-EST-Edwards-GL1WF-VMC-Fire-Alarm-LED-Strobe-Wheelock-/111406123988?pt=BI_Security_Fire_Protection EST GL1WF-VMC LED strobe, which I believe is made by Wheelock, and was Assembled in Mexico.
So it looks like EST has been making their products in China for a while now, and Wheelock is just kind of all over the place.
Siemens is a mix of USA, Malayasia, China and Europe. When it was Cerberus Pyrotronics in the 90’s it was almost 100% US.
Edwards/EST is slowly transitioning to China after UTC bought them, unfortunately.
Notifier and Silent Knight’s FACPs and all of Gentex’s products are still made in the USA, btw.
Businesses like Honeywell have factories all over the world with the same SOPs (standard operating procedures), metrics, and goals as factories here in the US. So while the Honeywell Fire System systems are assembled in the US, their quality metrics are the same as our plant in Mexico, China, and Italy. Note I said assembled not built. Most parts still come from China but designed by US engineers. At the end of the day, if the plant has good SOPs it doesnt matter where its made.
The first thing either needs to to immediately is unhook the system divisions web sites from Honeywell’s web site and return the divisions back to their own format.
Right now, it’s like throwing a dart at a board trying to find information or spec’s on a particular item, if you can even find the item…
Just my opinion after an exhausting search for a Silent Knight product…