I could be wrong but I doubt it. How many hoods could they sell? I can't imagine two or more factories designing the dies and stamping equipment to make these which are pretty complicated to make. It's a safe bet that all the hoods come from the same Taiwan factory. That said, there may be varying quality. Sometimes you see cheap ones on e-bay and I wonder if those were ones the main catalog houses didn't want to sell and wholesaled them off to some e-bay seller. I buy everything I can from Ames. I think that your safest bet to get the best quality stuff.