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.
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.
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.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.
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.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.
Wilson does not own Luxilon. Wilson is the world wide distributor for Luxilon tennis strings. Tennis is only one division of Luxilon industries.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.
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
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
Wilson gut used to be the same as Babolat VS Gut and Technifibre manufactures NXT for Wilson.Interesting because I strung two racquets tonight with Wilson and Luxilon natural gut and they were identical.
As far as gut is concerned, I think Bow Brand used to make Prince gut. There was also BDE gut. Did they go under?
Probably because the different strings are not that different after all except packaging?Why this obsession over number of factories, produced in same factory etc?
If this is true, then it's good!Produced in the same factory is a moot point, as same factory does not mean same string.
Probably because the different strings are not that different after all except packaging?
If this is true, then it's good!
He buy the strings from a german factory like many companies do,the rest is good marketingyes 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.
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 luxilonAccording 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.
Lol an answer to a post from January 2017!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,