We operate 3 foundries pouring primarily copper, aluminum and zinc alloys. We make our own plastic injection molded parts and do our own chrome plating in house. We support these capabilities with extensive CNC machining, metal stamping, grinding, polishing, tumbling and buffing. All that happens right here, in our plant in Miami, Florida, just like we’ve been doing in the USA for over a century. And, in the rare case when we can’t make a component ourselves, we always look to source it from a Made in USA supplier.

Since we do everything in the USA, we meet EPA requirements for waste disposal, comply with OSHA requirements for safety, fund Social Security and Medicare, and meet industry pay and worker benefit levels. We spend money to treat the environment as if we had to live in it, and to provide our employees a fair wage.

Unfortunately, our largest competitor is China, not a company, but a country that has different rules and different opinions. Over the past few decades, China has made exact copies of many products we spent time and money to create from scratch. A substantial portion of our legacy products are no longer made in the USA.

But things are still good. We live in the greatest country of all time. And we will never be enticed into to thinking that China as a partner is a good thing, either for us or for our country. We know that any time China knocks off another of our designs, the future of that product may change, as it will now be sold for prices even below our cost to manufacture. The plus side is that this motivates us to look for new opportunities. Our expansion into emission control products is a great example of how both Perko and our customers benefit from this evolution.

When it comes to purchasing, we all decide what is most important for ourselves. We believe that every product that is made in the USA, whether for a car, a house, or even a boat, makes the USA a stronger and more secure place.