Is BD the only company currently making climbing equipment in Asia?
There is a very large amount of branded climbing equipment coming out of Asia; however, it is coming from OEM machine shops that produce biners and other products or components for a host of well-known brands. Our decision to build our own factory, filled with BD employees trained to BD standards by other SLC-based BD employees with a European ISO certified quality assurance system was because we did not want to trust the manufacturing of our climbing hardware to others. Also, much of this Asian OEM-produced product of our competitors does not have proper country of origin labels, in part because they are bringing it in via Europe where that is not required. Black Diamond is the only branded climbing equipment company with its own production operation in Asia.
