Anybody outside of the USA make top end flashlights?

First off, I mean no offense to anyone.
In the USA we have surefire, ARC, HDS, streamlight, etc etc. (I am sure I have failed to list many).

I was just curious if there are many other companies in other countries who go after this very competitive market of top of the line flashlights?

Orb in the UK comes to mind.

FaMi makes great lights in Italy, I belive.

TecLite in Hong Kong makes some serious dive lights.

There is also a German or Dutch firm that makes awesome dive lights, but I forget the name.....

Marc

Not sure if you mean American company or American manufacturing. Streamlight is a US company but much of their product is manuf'd overseas.

If it's US companies, I'd include Underwater Kinetics and Princeton Tec.

As far as companies in other countries, I'd definitely include Lupine, Nuwai and Fenix. There are boutique makers in Argentina (Neoca) and Spain (Barbo) and Japan but no large scale manufacturers that I know of.........

Perhaps some of the overseas folks can help us out on this thread.

Alot of people really like the Fenix lights and they are made in China.

Oops missed Fenix tucked in the above post.

Firefly lights by DSpeck....here in Canada...

Singapore makes Longbow if I am not wrong.

Yes there are some nice custom 'boutique' lights from Japan (Katokichi, SilverLegacy, ROF, etc) but none from the big manufacturers. They must be losing their edge :sigh:

BTW, another vote for UK Orb.

Pila lights are very nicely made in China as are Wolf-Eyes.

Some Streamlights are now imported.

JonSidneyB's Indium Smart is made overseas.

A lot of the HID lights found on cpf come from overseas.

Vital Gear is another overseas brand - not sure where they are made - Hong Kong? Taiwan?

Cateye (Japan)

One interesting thing - seems premium headlights are more common overseas than premium handheld flashlights (Lupine, Cateye, Petzl) I'm a fan of headlights - if you're doing something that you need good lighting for, you'll probably need both hands too.

Petzl, based in France, have for many years been making top-quality "Illumination Tools" for use in outdoor pursuits.

It's just that they are headlamps, rather than flashlights, which people often forget about!

A couple of decades ago, the vast majority of mountaineers, climbers etc would be wearing the Petzl Zoom at night - the Petzl Zoom was virtually synonymous with the term "Headlamp".

There's a lot of competition now, from the likes of Black Diamond and Princeton Tec in particular. But Petzl are still very much holding their own.

....I will add Amilite which is made in the Republic of Korea. I am hoping they come out with another light that is as great as their Neo T3.
jc

Jil lights - Korea. I EDC two of them.

What about those EternaLights? Where are they manufactured?

There's also Vortex Vision (sold in 45 countries around the world), which is USA & Canada based company but the products are made overseas.

AmiLite

Nuwai