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Globalization

The article is USA centric and ignores the rest of the world, most significantly the German (production) branch and its long (AEG) history.

According to Atlas Copco's history (in Norwegian) the company bought AEG Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH in 1992 and Milwaukee Electric Tools in 1995. The power tool companies were sold in 2005. This is confirmed by de:AEG: Atlas Copco bought AEG Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH in 1992. At the end of 2004 it was sold to Techtronic Industries (TTI) and marketed by A&M Electric Tools. This is confirmed by TTI: Milestones: 2005 January: Acquired Milwaukee, AEG and DreBo electric power tools and accessories brands and businesses. According to Techtronic Industries (TTI) it now (2008-02-06) owns the following power tool brand names: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation, AEG Electric Tools, and Ryobi.

AEG Elektrowerkzeuge GmbH and its successors produce power tools for both professionals and home owners etc. It's situated in Winnenden, near Stuttgart in Germany. The traditional AEG power tool colour is blue and is still in use by AEG power tools. Atlas Copco changed colour and name on the professional AEG power tools. They were black and branded Atlas Copco during the 1990's and into the 2000's. According to Milwaukee: Hovedkontor og anlegg (in Norwegian) and my own experience the Milwaukee brand was launched in Australia in 2001 and in 2002 the professional range was relaunched in Europe and the rest of the world using the Milwaukee brand and red colour.

The Atlas Copco power tool range marketed in Europe started out with (mainly) German produced tools of clear AEG origin. Later it was supplemented by American produced power tools of Milwaukee origin and after the shift to the Milwaukee brand name and colour, some German models were discontinued. Many of the discontinued models continued as AEG models though.

When I looked at the Milwaukee US site (2008-02-06) I found several power tools of German/AEG origin.
--Ohedland (talk) 19:48, 6 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Further confirmation is found in the company history published by Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation on their US web site (see Milwaukee Electric Tool Company#External links):

History | New ownership, global growth: page 3-4:

In July, 1995, Atlas Copco AB purchased Amstar, the parent corporation that owned Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation. The acquisition by Atlas Copco, a global group of industrial companies headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, meant increased financial support and opportunities for Milwaukee to compete in the international power tool market. Techtronic Industries Co. Ltd. (TTI) purchased Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation from Atlas Copco in January, 2005. Founded in 1985, TTI is a leading marketer, manufacturer and supplier of home improvement and floor care products, employing over 20,000 people worldwide. TTI's global brand portfolio includes Ryobi®, Milwaukee® and AEG® power tools, DreBo® carbide drill bits, [...]

--Ohedland (talk) 12:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Company name

The company name is "Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation" (not Milwaukee Electric Tool Company) according to the company's web site:

--Ohedland (talk) 12:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result was move. Vassyana (talk) 08:19, 17 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Current page name: Milwaukee Electric Tool Company
Suggested new name: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
Reason: See the section "Company name" above

--Ohedland (talk) 13:09, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Does seem to be the proper name on their website. You can use the templates at Wikipedia:Requested moves in future, they create a better discussion area. Horsesforcorses (talk) 22:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I did (try to) follow the recipe in Wikipedia:Requested moves#Requesting potentially controversial moves and used the templates {{move|NewName}} and {{subst:RMlink|PageName|NewName|reason for move}}. I didn't use the template {{subst:RMtalk|NewName|reason for move}} because of the warning "aware that polling can be divisive". Did I misunderstand something?--Ohedland (talk) 08:14, 8 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Cross porpoises (talk) 19:00, 15 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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Tool quality.

Im new to posting on Wikipedia. Sorry if I didn't do this right. l whold like to add. When "TTI" bought "Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation" . They stopped caring about the quality of the tools. Milwaukee power tools used to be. The best power tools on the market. Now there just garbage. TheTruthAboutTools (talk) 03:49, 16 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I would not call their tools "absolute garbage" because MANY previously good to very good quality tools have lost a lot of their former quality recently, as most of them sent their manufacture to China in an effort to maximize their earnings by lowering their costs. Even brands with legendary quality, robustness and precision like Metabo, are now being manufactured in China, and regardless of what their marketers say, their quality has suffered to varied degree. Most of the tools now made in China are of acceptable quality (body, electric motor and housing) but two things are notable for their more frequent failures and lack of precision: Bearings, ball or roller that lack precision or are noisy and less durable; and electronic speed controls, that are more failure prone. As long as American manufacturers keep sending production to China, the previous quality of their tools is going to be mediocre for the factors I mentioned. Or, the Chinese will eventually get their metallurgy and tolerances much better, and the tools made by them will become the new standard, as tools made in Germany or Switzerland will be too expensive and then end up disappearing from the market. As of Today's Milwaukee Tools, presently they are just another fancy colored and overtouted tools that are more of the same "Made in China" brands, relying on people's image of previous quality American tools. Amclaussen.