Arista EDU ULTRA 100 Made in Canada?

gordrob said:

From what I have been told by someone that sells Flic cassettes is that they are manufactured here in Alberta. Maybe China has copied the cassette design. I don't know why you seem to figure that the cassettes cannot be manufactured here in Canada. Injection molding has been a big part of the auto industry in Canada since it started .

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Well the fact that there is an Alibaba listing for nearly the exact same cassette tells us that it could be nonsense.

There was a time a few years ago where there was a shortage of cassettes due to the supply chain issues. That was the justification I saw the owner give in the video I watched for making their own.

Anyway, I recall sending an email to Flic Film a couple years ago, which was answered quickly by the owner. Just using the email on their website. If he's still as communicative, some of these mysteries could be just an email away from being solved.

mehguy said:

Well the fact that there is an Alibaba listing for nearly the exact same cassette tells us that it could be nonsense.

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Because the Chinese would never copy anything right?

I don't see what it's so hard to fathom the possibility that the cassettes Flic uses are made in Canada and have been copied in China.

Craig said:

Because the Chinese would never copy anything right?

I don't see what it's so hard to fathom the possibility that the cassettes Flic uses are made in Canada and have been copied in China.

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I feel like it’s worth pointing out that the R&D to make this would also cost a lot, probably $10-20k+, because you are going to go through a lot of prototyping and tooling. Could Flic afford that when they are just starting out? Doubt it.

I don't know where these come from. Tool can be moved anywhere in the world and run. This is expensive to get into, it's a pretty intricate design. Tool would certainly be a multi-cavity mold. Hard to guess. I was involved in injection molding, larger parts. Very competitive business.
Larger parts, more costly to ship tend to (obviously) be made closer to the end user.

The cassettes I have purchased are nicely made.

With the mess of the pandemic it wouldn't surprise me if these were manufactured in N America, Canada has all kinds of shops that could mold these.