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 Vasily Semeniuta, president of distributor Grandis Metals, Lake Forest, pneumaticcaster Calif., told AMM''s recent Titanium Strategies conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., that pneumaticcaster golf club head production had been following "the path of many industries with intensive labor rates." Output had shifted from the United States to Taiwan and then to China, and plants now are being built in Vietnam. One Chinese pneumaticcaster company whose role in golf is growing fast is Beijing International Aeronautical Materials, which began more than 45 years ago as an aerospace supplier but now is branching out Jack Wan, general manager of BIAM''s General Titanium Inc. subsidiary in Walnut, Calif., said the parent company had the capacity to cast 150,000 pieces per month in China arid last year produced 850,000 heads compared with pneumaticcaster just 300,000 in 2000. Of these, 500,000 were for the U.S. "TaylorMade" brand of drivers. One example: Coastcast has implemented a "high energy drag finishing" line where cast heads are installed on fixtures pneumaticcaster and run through a finishing media. This operation not only runs 24 hours per day but helps to reduce one of the main causes of scrapped heads overpolishing when it''s done by hand. Moreover, while Coastcast''s titanium club heads are cast in Gardena, Calif., they are finished just across the border in Mexicali, Mexico, where labor costs are substantially pneumaticcaster lower. Rolfe emphasized that the realities of Asian competition mean that it was imperative for a North American club head producer to pneumaticcaster squeeze out costs. 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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