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Manufactured in the USA

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LEEMFG-USAWe live in a global economy. This reality stuck home the hardest for many U.S. manufacturing companies over the past 20 years, whereas Chinese manufactures, dealing under a different set of labor, patent and environmental rules, were able to make many products manufactured in the United States, “un-competitively ” priced, leading to losses of many U.S. manufactured brands and products.

If you go back as recently as 10 years, it was pretty common for landed costs from China to be 25 to 30 percent less than the cost of manufacturing in the United States. Being a United States manufacturing company, we are happy to report that this Chinese manufacturing advantage has eroded dramatically.
Higher Chinese wage costs, the rising value of Chinese currency, and the rising cost of shipping goods to points around the world have made manufacturing in China more expensive; while back at home, productivity improvements, and falling U.S. energy prices have narrowed the difference in manufactured costs between China and the U.S. to such a degree that it’s almost negligible.

Today, for every dollar required to manufacture product in the U.S., it now costs $.96 cents to manufacture in China, before considering the cost of transportation to the U.S. and other factors. For many companies doing business with China, this more “level playing field” means that it’s hardly worth the risk when product quality, intellectual property rights, and long-distance supply chain issues are added to the equation.

Lee Manufacturing is proud to welcome many new customers to our team who have found that “made in the USA” speaks to more than just improved quality and delivery, but now also stands for competitively priced sheet-metal enclosures. As a means to further emphasize our American pride and quality we now offer the label shown in order to differentiate our product from the former Chinese product, and also as a proud way of telling all Americans purchasing your company’s enclosure is now manufactured in the same county that it’s being sold in. We promise that you and your customer will see the quality difference immediately.

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The culture at Lee Manufacturing is that the customer always comes first. Either through quick turnarounds on orders, or thinking “lean” to reduce long term costs, our employees are dedicated to improving the performance of our customers. Many manufacturing companies have the same type of equipment as found at Lee, but it’s our employees “can do” attitude that differentiates us from our competitors. The pride, passion, creativity, dedication and skill of our employees is evident in our high quality parts; and the enjoyment of working at Lee is evident in our very low turnover, in fact over 90% of our staff has been with us for 10 years or longer.

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With a focus on low voltage enclosures to the fire, security, telecommunication, and home automation industries, Lee Manufacturing engineering staff is well versed in code compliance for enclosure design and construction for all of these industries; including UL 609 (Burglar Alarm Units and Systems), and UL 864 (Control Units and Accessories for Fire Alarm Systems). Lee Manufacturing is a certified product manufacture for both Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL), and Factory Mutual (FM); and is routinely audited by both agencies. A member of UTC’s Supplier Gold Program, Lee Mfg. has been awarded “Supplier of the Year”  honors numerous times from both General Electric and Legrand, North America.

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