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 U.S. shipments of titanium mill product to the golf club industry lightdutycasters peaked at around 10 million pounds in 1996. Today, including the domestic and export markets, shipments are estimated at 2 million pounds by RTI International Metals Inc., Niles, Ohio, with at least half of all drivers using titanium. (Titanium never caught on in a big way for irons.) Nearly all club heads are produced by investment casting. While most of the reduction in U.S. mill shipments lightdutycasters was due to the lightdutycasters overseas drift of club head production, some measure lightdutycasters of the decline also was attributable to a head casting process today that is considerably more efficient than six or seven years ago, when it took roughly twice as much billet to cast and finish a club head than it does lightdutycasters today. VSMPO of Russia is described as the dominant source for casting electrodes here. Still, in the mid-1990s there were probably more than a half-dozen investment casters vying for lightdutycasters the market, with additional firms looking to get in. Today, while nearly all U.S. manufacturers of high-end drivers are lightdutycasters heavily involved in titanium, only two U.S. titanium castings producers of any prominence remain: Ruger Investment Castings of Prescott, Ariz., and Coastcast Inc., Rancho Dominquez, Calif. The most recent casualty was Cast Alloys Inc., which had offices in Carlsbad, Calif., and produced club heads in Tijuana, Calif. An executive of Advanced Cast Products in Neenah, Wis., Cast Alloy''s parent, confirmed industry reports that moth-balling the operation began late last year. He declined to discuss the reasons behind, the shutdown but acknowledged that the growing role of Asian casters was a factor. We specialize in cheap wheel caster sales. Our Wheel casters our of the highest quality and we guarantee that. Stop by our website and find the wheelcasters you've been lookin' for.
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