Wes Patterson Quotations

We're having to do less and less labor on our products here to compete with Chinese manufacturers. The parts and the coating of the lenses will be done here and assembled there.

I want to keep manufacturing here because I want people to be safe wearing safety glasses. With the Chinese imports, some of their products are just as good as ours and some are inferior, and you never know which you're going to get.

But it got down to basically nothing in 2004.

The Chinese have just about cleaned out all of the safety-glasses manufacturers in the United States. There's about six of us left.