LOGICDATA Electronic & Software Entwicklungs GmbH

• Manufacturer of record for the recalled rectangular switch, per Health Canada's RA-52493 filing
• Headquartered Wirtschaftspark 18, Deutschlandsberg, Austria — founded 1994
• At the time of the 2015 recall, LOGICDATA was independently Austrian-owned. In 2021, LOGICDATA merged with JIECANG, a Chinese linear-actuator manufacturer (founded 2000, ~5,000 employees, Shanghai Stock Exchange-listed) — that merger happened six years after your recall, so it doesn't explain the "Manufactured in China" origin already stated in the original 2015 recall notice; that would have been a separate manufacturing arrangement in place at the time.
• Current listed key principal (per Dun & Bradstreet): Jing Su — a detail consistent with the post-2021 Chinese ownership structure, though not necessarily relevant to 2015.

 

What's actually on Alibaba

• "Wholesale recliner sofa frame" and "wood furniture frame manufacturers" are entire product categories — dozens of Chinese suppliers sell bare recliner/sofa frames (wood or metal) as standalone components, separate from the finished chair.
• Specific example: Zhejiang Lixing Furniture Co., Ltd. — "a professional manufacturer of recliner chairs, massage & heating recliner sofas and lift chairs" — based in the exact Zhejiang province where your chair's confirmed metal supplier (Jiaxing Shangpin Metal Co.) is also located. Alibaba
• General product listings describe complete frames built from "high-quality wood, metal, or a combination of both materials" and note buyers should specifically "check the construction materials used to make the frame, such as high-quality steel or heavy-duty plastic" — language that only exists because frame sourcing/quality is a known variable buyers need to scrutinize in this market, not something uniform or proprietary. Alibaba

Why this matters for your file

Every major structural and functional category of your chair — not just the electronics — is available as an off-the-shelf, wholesale, minimum-order-of-one product from Chinese manufacturers. That reinforces the broader point for your site: this isn't a case where Franklin's marketing claims of proprietary craftsmanship describe something genuinely hard to source elsewhere. The entire product category — frames, mechanisms, motors, switches — is a mature, commoditized global supply chain that any furniture company can tap into.

From the 2014 American Home Furnishings Hall of Fame oral history

"Almost everything else is made in China... there's almost no fabric made here."

"We buy cut and sewn kits from China."

"We would like to do more cut-and-sew here in house... Since there are virtually no fabric mills here... the solution is to order well in advance and stockpile the fabrics, then cut-and-sew in America."

"We buy in buns like big loaves of bread. We have German CNC machines to cut the foam to patterns. We get great yield with very little waste."

"No, we don't use any lumber now. It's all what we call frame stock — 4' by 8' sheets that we feed into the CNC machines. Weyerhauser and Georgia-Pacific are our key vendors on this product."

"We use a lot of Leggett & Platt mechanisms and metal bases but the two major mechanisms we use we manufacture in our own facility... Mechanisms were a major problem prior to building our mechanism plant. As I recall, they were up to 80 percent of our field problems."

"We don't have anyone on the ground over there now" (referring to no on-site quality control personnel at overseas vendor facilities).

"We've just brought out our Wow! seating foam. It has a slice of gel in it, like used in the mattress industry, then we put fiber on top of that. It's about six inches thick."

"The first ones we bought were German made and we've since bought American-made machines" (referring to CNC cutting equipment specifically — not the furniture itself).

"My son Mark is president and my other son, Hank, is senior vice president."

"We made a major change this week to our rocker recliner mechanism resulting in purchasing two dies at about $18,000 each to make the changes... We continually improve the workmanship and we test everything in our laboratory. Any complaint we get involving mechanisms, we jump on pronto and many times that might involve a change."

Source: homefurnishingshalloffame.com/hassell-h-franklin-franklin-corporation — dated March 13, 2014

From the July 2018 Mississippi Development Authority press release

"Consolidating raw materials in the new warehouse, along with our lean manufacturing concepts, will free up space to add several more production lines in our two upholstery plants. We appreciate the support of MDA, Three Rivers and our local community."
— Hassell Franklin, Chairman and CEO

Same release states the warehouse would store "cut and sewn cover kits and other components sourced from the Pacific Rim." Governor Phil Bryant is separately quoted in this same release praising "Made in Mississippi" quality.

Source: mississippi.org/news/franklin-corporation-one-of-nations-largest-privately-owned-furniture-manufacturers-expanding-in-houston-miss