Remembering a post from awhile ago regarding manufacture of rubbers, it wasn’t that simple, maybe 4 or 5 specialist companies involved, most brands outsource the various stages of the process, maybe the only BRAND to do it all themselves Is BTY.??
DHS, 729 have factories, but are these factories just putting component parts together?
It’s similar to a BMW or other car manufacture, they DON’T make EVERYTHING, BUT THEY PUT IT ALL TOGETHER!!
From what I understand , ESN do the whole lot, sponge formulas, top sheet formulas, vulcanisation, making the sponge, cutting it (both sponge and top sheet), gluing top sheet to sponge Etc this service comes at a cost, and Europe is plain and simple expensive compared to other parts of the world.
When I first heard of Loki, maybe 3 to 4 yrs ago, Loki was virtually unknown in Europe, I don’t know how long they have been in business???
I heard that the Original Arthur series was made in Germany, packaging confirmed this. Later addition of LAC may be different, the sponge is orange, from memory, and I could be wrong, the 1st 3 Arthur rubbers Asia, Europe, and Europe Diamond all had black carbon cake sponges, with varying pore sizes and hardnesses. I thought that Xiom’s black sponges had been used for the Arthur rubbers??
This wouldn’t be a surprise as this has happened with other ESN made rubbers, Perhaps Joola Golden Tango and Tibhar K1 (to Nextlevel‘s surprise!! & mine!!) they are extremely similar or identical!!
Are the Arthur series (all 4 of them) now made in another country?? Anyone bought LAA, LAE or LAED recently? Photo of the latest packaging as confirmation would be good, as well as photos of the 2 LAC varieties (orange or green packaging) Country of manufacture should be on it somewhere.
