As a matter of fact most of the entire "hard goods" hobby hydroponic equipment is farmed out to China in some fashion. The big 5 distributors just import and.slap a "brand name" on it. Most of your cheaper inline fans, light ratchets, cheap mini splits, environmental controllers, etc. All made by a few Chinese manufacturers. Hydrofarm, Ngw, Sunleaves, etc. Just design it with a team in close contact with thier Chinese handlers and it gets produced. Brand wars and brand loyalty in this "industry" between customers/growers is pretty funny if you know what really goes on behind the scenes. And if you really want to know the truth....the whole "industry" (supplying equipment to dope growers is the dirty untold secret) was started in the Pacific Northwest by smart hippies in the late 1970's and early eighties in garages and small polebarns. Example....General Hydroponics, Applied Hydroponics (soon to be Hydrofarm but that was actually the name of their first system), Green Air Products, Light Manufacturing, Dynagro, Eco Enterprises. The list goes on and on. Even Superior Growers Supply here in good ole Michigan was an early pioneer. The only outfit in this state for a long time. Whoever had the balls to make the equipment or use the equipment made a SHIT LOAD OF MONEY.There was one big outfit that advertised inside the front cover of High Times. They got busted so bad by Operation Green Merchant in '89 that they now sell aquarium equipment. I know this because i bought my first 400 watt sodium from them before that. I had it sent ups to an abandoned house down the street when i was 15 years old. Lol. This is all pretty useless and doesnt mean much to most.of you but it does me. Because iam passionate about this and i was there. Very young but i was. As was Jorge Cervantes, Ed Rosenthal, Mel Frank, Clackamas Coot, Nevil Schoenmaker, Sam the Skunkman, Jack Herer, Captain Ed Adair....say what you want about these guys and some of the early books on dope growing but if it wasnt for them we would still be trying to grow dope with backyard "dirt" with incandescent light bulbs and boiling our roots.
