Tri-color pours are going down at the S.A. plant as of the Dream Big Pearl and Respect Solid. Tri-color pours on Escape and Great Escape. 900 Global cores as well.
That's interesting. Is any 900 Global stuff being poured in Utah now? What about vice versa with Storm/Roto Grip stuff being poured in San Antonio? I haven't paid very close attention to the situation but I never really had a clear picture of what was going on.
900 Global can pour some Storm balls, and Storm can pour some 900 Global balls. Don't quote me on this, but here goes. Storm purchased 900 Global in middle of 2014. What has happened is Storm wants 900 Global to be a separate company. For instance, Storm staffers can throw Roto-Grip and vice versa. 900 Global staffers can't throw Storm or Roto Grip, but we can throw AMF300. In 2014 900 Global came out with their first releases that had a "Storm" cover which were the Moxie and Dream. These were poured in Utah. As far as I know, I believe the cores used were partially designed by Storm as Storm wanted to be able to easily use a core mold in house for these releases. So everything below the Dream and Respect line is poured in San Antonio. Last time I checked, 900 Global is now using the same urethane and additives that storm uses. So basically all of our equipment has the chemicals that Storm uses. But remember we are different so our covers are different. I know for a fact that Nick Siefers (900 Global Engineer) has designed all of the cores used in our new releases including the new Adaptor core. I also am pretty sure that we have upgraded our manufacturing to include tri color bowling balls as of the Respect Solid and Dream Big Pearl. So now I am pretty sure what you are seeing is Storm/Roto Grip as one and now 900 Global/AMF300 as one. What I always find interesting is just how different the reactions are from each company with no overlap. I believe AMF300 stuff will fill in gaps in the 900 Global lineup and vice versa. Hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
