Other vendors like Redfox, Standaco, and Applied Machinery to name just a couple also sell the Optimum / Vertex / Metex / Machtech branded gear, which companies now seem to have outsourced to Chinese/Taiwanese manufacturers, but are designed to their specs and requirements.
I have a BF16 Vario mill and it's really quite nicely made, albeit small, and compared to my Chinese CNC machine there's a world of difference in the casting quality, and especially the finish.
Standaco have probably the most superb Taiwanese lathes I've ever seen!
The Hafco stuff is good, and cheap, but after having bought a few of their items, I've come to the conclusion that while adequate, they are made to a price point definately. Just my opinion. I'm looking at a Machtech V1000 over a H&F HM50-52 myself. The quality of the floor stock was very nice. Another thing you'll find in the cheaper Chinese stuff, is the fairly liberal use of bondo! Looks good until stress is put on the area and it cracks, or comes apart. On a lot of the machines you can actually see floorstock where this has happened, imagine under frequent use how it would look.
I'd spend more time searching and googling if I were you, the small differences that add up to the end finish, accuracy, and user satisfaction are not quite so apparent as most would think.
cheers,
Ian
It's rumoured that everytime someone buys a TB6560 based board, an engineer cries!