Head, Wilson, Babolat, etc. OEMs

FranzS · Mar 26, 2020

Hi there, does anyone know who are the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers, i.e. those who actually produce the racquets) for Head, Wilson and the other big brands?
A few days ago I found the website of one Chinese OEM who wrote something like "we produce 35% of all the well-known racquets on the market". I couldn't find it again today...
As far as pro stock racquets, are they made by those OEMs too? With special materials maybe? I don't think Head is still making any racquets in Austria, not even pro stocks, as it would be too expensive to run small batch productions. Am I wrong?

1990's Graphite · Mar 26, 2020

Head is still making racquets in Austria, the ones with "PT" codes as far as I am aware. For pro players only... not sure where they are finished though.... China ?

88fingers · Mar 26, 2020

Good question, but this would be confidential information that you're not going to get on a public forum.

Alexh22 · Mar 26, 2020

FranzS said:
Hi there, does anyone know who are the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers, i.e. those who actually produce the racquets) for Head, Wilson and the other big brands?
A few days ago I found the website of one Chinese OEM who wrote something like "we produce 35% of all the well-known racquets on the market". I couldn't find it again today...
As far as pro stock racquets, are they made by those OEMs too? With special materials maybe? I don't think Head is still making any racquets in Austria, not even pro stocks, as it would be too expensive to run small batch productions. Am I wrong?

All I want to know is can they make me some H22 s?

Diablo XP · Mar 26, 2020

FranzS said:
Hi there, does anyone know who are the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers, i.e. those who actually produce the racquets) for Head, Wilson and the other big brands?
A few days ago I found the website of one Chinese OEM who wrote something like "we produce 35% of all the well-known racquets on the market". I couldn't find it again today...
As far as pro stock racquets, are they made by those OEMs too? With special materials maybe? I don't think Head is still making any racquets in Austria, not even pro stocks, as it would be too expensive to run small batch productions. Am I wrong?

The company you are referencing is Topkey. Quest Composites, while they don't list racquet sports, also does some OEM for Tennis. Quest is one of the down-low "keep it a secret"companies, but they do very good, diligent work.

vsbabolat · Mar 27, 2020

Marshal Industries

MARSHAL - Company

aarenes · Mar 27, 2020

They clearly don't sell directly to consumers

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