Strings made by the same factory

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Well so far there are 36 brands of string on the tennis warehouse website. Surely the strings aren't coming from separate factors so there must be some brands sharing the same string and then putting their own name and marketing on them. Which ones can you name.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
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.

I believe you are correct in thinking these are the same strings and they share the same supplier for them.
 
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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.
 
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.

He would be very wrong whether referring to now or the past.
 
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.
 
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.
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.
 
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

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.
 
Why this obsession over number of factories, produced in same factory etc?

Produced in the same factory is a moot point, as same factory does not mean same string.
 
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!

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?
 
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.
He buy the strings from a german factory like many companies do,the rest is good marketing
 
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.
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,
 
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,
Lol an answer to a post from January 2017!

But still thanks:)
 
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