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Just out of curiosity, I recently decided I was going to find out once and for all, without any doubt, where every single Husky was made and where every single Stihl was made. (I like both brands, own both, and use both.) To make the results indisputable, I decided to contact each corporate office.
It only took one phone call to Stihl in Va. Beach to find out the answer: A nice guy named Mark said the following:
"All our smaller saws from the MS 170 to the MS 390 are made in Virginia Beach. There are two exceptions to that: The MS 200 and the MS 200T are made in Germany. All other saws, our larger saws, are made in Germany."
I spent two weeks trying to get an answer from Husky to this same question. Unfortunately, each rep (or dealer) I spoke with or emailed here in the USA gave conflicting info. The one single area of agreement was that the 235 was made at the Poulan factory in the U.S. I got different answers for all other models. One unpleasant Husky USA rep huffily asked me why was I asking so many questions and what was my purpose anyway. Finally, I emailed Husky in Sweden and wrote:
"I only have one question: What is the country of manufacture for each of Husqvarna's chains saws? I would like to know this for every model."
Promptly the next day, I got the following reply:
Dear Tom
On behalf of Ms Stenqvist, I appoligize if you have been unfortunate in
your contact with our company.
As you probably already know, we have many chainsaws in our product range.
Most of the Husqvarna chainsaws are manufactured in the USA and in Sweden.
Even though you only have one question, it is quite a large one and due to
lack of time, we can not list all of the places of manufacturing for each
model. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
/Margaretha Finnstedt Möller
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BTW, I'm NOT casting aspersions on the quality of Husky! Good saws. That's indisputable and I really like mine. What is also industable, however, is that while it's easy to place a phone call to Stihl USA, get a nice person on the line, and get quick, knowledgeable answers, the same is not true for Husky.
Disclaimer: I know of course that I could have dealt directly with dealers but out of curiosity, I chose to contact corporate offices.)
I found this little exercise interesting, and thought some of you guys could use the info when clients, etc ask where saws are made. Stihl knows for sure. But Husky doesn't (or won't say). Guess they're just so enormous it's an impossible question to answer.
It only took one phone call to Stihl in Va. Beach to find out the answer: A nice guy named Mark said the following:
"All our smaller saws from the MS 170 to the MS 390 are made in Virginia Beach. There are two exceptions to that: The MS 200 and the MS 200T are made in Germany. All other saws, our larger saws, are made in Germany."
I spent two weeks trying to get an answer from Husky to this same question. Unfortunately, each rep (or dealer) I spoke with or emailed here in the USA gave conflicting info. The one single area of agreement was that the 235 was made at the Poulan factory in the U.S. I got different answers for all other models. One unpleasant Husky USA rep huffily asked me why was I asking so many questions and what was my purpose anyway. Finally, I emailed Husky in Sweden and wrote:
"I only have one question: What is the country of manufacture for each of Husqvarna's chains saws? I would like to know this for every model."
Promptly the next day, I got the following reply:
Dear Tom
On behalf of Ms Stenqvist, I appoligize if you have been unfortunate in
your contact with our company.
As you probably already know, we have many chainsaws in our product range.
Most of the Husqvarna chainsaws are manufactured in the USA and in Sweden.
Even though you only have one question, it is quite a large one and due to
lack of time, we can not list all of the places of manufacturing for each
model. Please let me know if you have any further questions.
/Margaretha Finnstedt Möller
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BTW, I'm NOT casting aspersions on the quality of Husky! Good saws. That's indisputable and I really like mine. What is also industable, however, is that while it's easy to place a phone call to Stihl USA, get a nice person on the line, and get quick, knowledgeable answers, the same is not true for Husky.
Disclaimer: I know of course that I could have dealt directly with dealers but out of curiosity, I chose to contact corporate offices.)
I found this little exercise interesting, and thought some of you guys could use the info when clients, etc ask where saws are made. Stihl knows for sure. But Husky doesn't (or won't say). Guess they're just so enormous it's an impossible question to answer.
