Strings made by the same factory
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CopolyX
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There is another thread on this:
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/where-tennis-string-is-made.213997/
https://tt.tennis-warehouse.com/index.php?threads/where-tennis-string-is-made.213997/
Irvin
Talk Tennis Guru
Tecnifibre makes several string for other companies but not sure the other companies would want anyone mentioning specifics. Babolat VS also makes Gut for others. When a company makes a string for another company there are also agreements between the manufacturer and the other company the strings will not be the same so even though the strings appear to be the same there are differences.
Chotobaka
Hall of Fame
Tecnifibre, Isospeed, Gosen, and Toalson all do extensive OEM/ODM work for other major brand names like Gamma, Wilson, Prince and Head, in addition to manufacturing their own branded products. Luxilon (Wilson owned), Babolat, Pacific and Yonex all manufacture their own branded strings. There are several manufacturers in Taiwan and Germany who make lots of strings for both major brand names as well as smaller brands.
When it comes to natural gut, the only first-world manufacturers are Babolat, Luxilon, Klip, and Pacific. Volkl and Boris Becker natural gut are Klip products as was Klip's apparently now defunct sub-brand Titan. Bow Brand is not producing tennis string at this point in time, but is a longtime (and stellar) manufacturer who has been in and out of the business in recent years. They produced natural gut as recently as 2-3 years ago, but are currently focused only on musical instrument strings. Emerson in India, also primarily a musical instrument string maker, is the only other natural gut tennis string manufacturer I am aware of. They produce lower quality products sold under their own Global Gut brand and OEM for other distributors who re-sell the string under various names.
I am sure there is more info out there, but this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
When it comes to natural gut, the only first-world manufacturers are Babolat, Luxilon, Klip, and Pacific. Volkl and Boris Becker natural gut are Klip products as was Klip's apparently now defunct sub-brand Titan. Bow Brand is not producing tennis string at this point in time, but is a longtime (and stellar) manufacturer who has been in and out of the business in recent years. They produced natural gut as recently as 2-3 years ago, but are currently focused only on musical instrument strings. Emerson in India, also primarily a musical instrument string maker, is the only other natural gut tennis string manufacturer I am aware of. They produce lower quality products sold under their own Global Gut brand and OEM for other distributors who re-sell the string under various names.
I am sure there is more info out there, but this is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on the subject.
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Doc Hollidae
Hall of Fame
I think Tourna and Topspin may share their Big Hitter and Cyber lines. Big Hitter Silver = Cyber Flash and Big Hitter Blue = Cyber Power/Blue. At least they seem to be the same strings.
Chotobaka
Hall of Fame
I believe you are correct in thinking these are the same strings and they share the same supplier for them.
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YellowFedBetter
Hall of Fame
According to my coach who was a member of the New Zealand Davis Cup team years ago there's only two factories in the world that make strings and they just put a name on them and call them whatever. Of course he hasn't been on the pro scene in years so I'm not sure as to the validity of his statement.
Chotobaka
Hall of Fame
He would be very wrong whether referring to now or the past.
saleem
Semi-Pro
yes he would be very wrong, I know for sure there are more than few factories who make their own strings, Weiss Cannon is one of the company who make their own strings, Siegfried Weiss has a degree in chemical engineering, he develops his own strings with different formulas.
YellowFedBetter
Hall of Fame
Wow that is good to know and some great info, where did you find that out? I've been considering trying Silverstring for a while now, my sometimes hitting partner and his very skilled dad uses it and it works great for them.
vsbabolat
G.O.A.T.
Wilson does not own Luxilon. Wilson is the world wide distributor for Luxilon tennis strings. Tennis is only one division of Luxilon industries.
http://www.luxilon.be/home
Chotobaka
Hall of Fame
I stand corrected. Since Wilson has used the term "Wilson Family Of Brands" in the past and included Luxilon, I erroneously assumed ownership of the tennis operation. I guess exclusive worldwide distribution qualifies inclusion in their brand family. You are absolutely correct that Luxilon goes far beyond tennis string as does Cousin Freres (Tecnifibre) and others.
chrisingrassia
Professional
Interesting because I strung two racquets tonight with Wilson and Luxilon natural gut and they were identical.
vsbabolat
G.O.A.T.
Wilson gut used to be the same as Babolat VS Gut and Technifibre manufactures NXT for Wilson.
In early 2006 Wilson became the exclusive worldwide distributor for Luxilon strings.
https://sgbonline.com/wilson-racquet-sports-to-distribute-luxilon/
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Steve Huff
G.O.A.T.
As far as gut is concerned, I think Bow Brand used to make Prince gut. There was also BDE gut. Did they go under?
The only 2 manufacturers I can think of for Prince natural gut are BDE and Babolat.I don't think Bow Brand ever did.
Steve Huff
G.O.A.T.
As far as looks and play go, I'd almost swear that Head FiberGel Power, Genesis ThunderBlast, and Alpha Prodigy were the same string. I think FiberGel Power has been discontinued now.
Probably because the different strings are not that different after all except packaging?
If this is true, then it's good!
4-string
Professional
I doubt Solinco for example has dedicated factories for each of their strings...one Outlast factory, one for Tour Bite, another for Hyper-G etc. In other words, totally different strings are made within the same facilities, so why is it so hard to believe that strings can be made to a certain spec for a certain brand?
Tennisman.de
New User
He buy the strings from a german factory like many companies do,the rest is good marketing
Tennisman.de
New User
That is wrong, for example i know 5 polyester factories in gemany, one in belgium, one in portugal, one in the USA, some in taiwan, only a very very small number of copanies, like tecnifibre and luxilon
have their own production,
Tennisman.de
New User
But there are many string on the market which are the same, only with a different label, and unbelievable different prices ;-)
