At last for anyone's interest, all Bloutch, GT pump, Kinugawa, Zage, Force performance turbos are all made from the same factory -- Zage in Taiwan.
AND Bloutch's patent 271 just expired, so Kinugawa is making ball bearing GT2871 (Garret based) turbo with billet wheels as we r speaking
, but their TD series turbos (MHI based) will still be thrust bearing for now.
I have attached a Zage turbo for reference, very good quality TBH.