Last I heard Ryobi was owned by OWT (One World Technologies) a Chinese company.......Used to be a plant here as well. One time employed as many as 2500......


>Black and Decker power tools were made right here in Fayetteville, NC until this year. They just closed that factory down. They also make Ryobi tools. It is a U.S. company (or at least it was for years - so many are moving offshore and being bought by foreign companies who knows now. I was offered a job with them back in the late 90s and I toured the facility).
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>>>>>>Strictly translated, it means "the pale", as the one whose skin is light colored.
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>>>>>I.e. "bleached"? As in German "bleich"?
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>>>>>I thought you're related to that guy Dekker Bleken who cuts trees to make decks ;).
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>>>>Or his South African cousin, Bleken Dekker, who makes the power tools to do it with?
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>>>Is this another Patrik FitzGerald vs Gerald FitzPatrick situation, eh?
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>>No, they're a pair of Irish gay guys.
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>>Surely you've heard of Black & Decker power tools? I think they're Canadian, and in England, second to Bosch in ubiquity.