BallReviews
General Category => Miscellaneous => Topic started by: southpaw on September 02, 2012, 06:38:26 AM
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I currently use a Columbia 300 Freeze and want to explore other brands that are Made In USA. Any suggestions?
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I recently made the switch to Motiv, all home-grown in Michigan. In fact, they make the only plastic ball that is still made in the USA. Take a look at the Sigma Tour; voted most versatile ball of the year by BTM magazine.
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Storm still made in the USA...and much better quality product than Motiv. Had a Cruel last year that obviously had some sort of cover or marking blemish and they basically gave me the brush off....wouldn't stand by their product.
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All the Ebonite brands(Ebonite,Hammer,Columbia 300,and Track)are made in Hopkinsville,Kentucky.
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USA manufactured Storm/RotoGrip (AZO) Brigham City Utah, EBI-(C300, Ebonite, Hammer and Track)Hopkinsville, KY, Motiv Muskegon MI, 900G (AMF, Seismic, Jet, Radical) San Antonio TX, LaneMasters/Legends Stockton, CA (my driller is still getting balls from them so I assume they are still being produced or maybe selling off old already produced product), Visionary St. Louis Mo.
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Because they are made in the USA,doesn't mean the chemicals they use are USA produced.Chemical accounts with foreign companies=not total USA product.Ask your
favorite company where they get their chemicals from.I know one company that uses
USA produced chemicals.
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Decisions, decisions, decisions. I really like the Storm Lucid. I wish it was available now. Waiting a month is killing me! ;D
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I know not all of Storm or Ebonite's products are completely made in the USA. I believe both have some balls made in China. Brunswick's were made in Mexico. It's been a while but the last batch I bought was. Lind's shoes was/is almost completely Chinese. They had a bad time in Mexico.
Smash49
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I know not all of Storm or Ebonite's products are completely made in the USA. I believe both have some balls made in China. Brunswick's were made in Mexico. It's been a while but the last batch I bought was. Lind's shoes was/is almost completely Chinese. They had a bad time in Mexico.
Smash49
If you mean poly spare balls yes most poly spare balls are manufactured in Far East.
Though it is a world economy and some of the products used to produce bowling equipment are made world wide (ie. resin BASF and Bayer both EU companies) I do applaud USA manufacturing efforts by those bowling manufacturers that do manufacture in the USA creating jobs on Labor Day! :)
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Does not matter to me where the materials came from. The fact that the ball is made within the boundaries of the United States of America by folks like you and me is important to me.
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Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
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Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
I knew, I forgot one Brick!
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Funny, I'd like to see all the workers green cards before I claimed a product made in San Antonio was made by Americans. But that's something as trivial as worrying if your bowling ball is made in the States when practically nothing else in the industry is.
Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
I knew, I forgot one Brick!
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Funny, I'd like to see all the workers green cards before I claimed a product made in San Antonio was made by Americans. But that's something as trivial as worrying if your bowling ball is made in the States when practically nothing else in the industry is.
Despite your cynicism, I'm glad you appreciate the value of having a personal ID. Very nice.
Regardless, bowling ball manufacturing is one of last product strongholds left in the USA. It's heartening to see so many bowlers understand this, and maintain the values of buy American when it makes sense. For bowling balls, there is no reason not to.
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As I said, trivial.
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I understand Bruns moved to Mexico b/c of labor costs ;)
I know not all of Storm or Ebonite's products are completely made in the USA. I believe both have some balls made in China. Brunswick's were made in Mexico. It's been a while but the last batch I bought was. Lind's shoes was/is almost completely Chinese. They had a bad time in Mexico.
Smash49
If you mean poly spare balls yes most poly spare balls are manufactured in Far East.
Though it is a world economy and some of the products used to produce bowling equipment are made world wide (ie. resin BASF and Bayer both EU companies) I do applaud USA manufacturing efforts by those bowling manufacturers that do manufacture in the USA creating jobs on Labor Day! :)
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I beleive Hammer is still made in usa.
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The Ebonite International family includes Hammer, Ebonite, Track and Columbia 300. All are made in Kentucky. -- JohnP
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Funny, I'd like to see all the workers green cards before I claimed a product made in San Antonio was made by Americans. But that's something as trivial as worrying if your bowling ball is made in the States when practically nothing else in the industry is.
Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
I knew, I forgot one Brick!
The topic was about "made in the USA" and not "made by Americans".
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Storm balls are made in Brigham City, Utah, with the exception of the ICE Line.
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So if the company is in the States but may have a few illegals working there, that is the same as being made in USA?
Funny, I'd like to see all the workers green cards before I claimed a product made in San Antonio was made by Americans. But that's something as trivial as worrying if your bowling ball is made in the States when practically nothing else in the industry is.
Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
I knew, I forgot one Brick!
The topic was about "made in the USA" and not "made by Americans".
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Made in the USA? ... Definitely ... The last time I looked, San Antonio, Texas was still in the USA. Mexico hadn't re-taken the Alamo back yet.
So if the company is in the States but may have a few illegals working there, that is the same as being made in USA?
Funny, I'd like to see all the workers green cards before I claimed a product made in San Antonio was made by Americans. But that's something as trivial as worrying if your bowling ball is made in the States when practically nothing else in the industry is.
Lane 1 is made by 900 Global in the USA
I knew, I forgot one Brick!
The topic was about "made in the USA" and not "made by Americans".
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I know not all of Storm or Ebonite's products are completely made in the USA. I believe both have some balls made in China.
Smash49
If you mean poly spare balls yes most poly spare balls are manufactured in Far East.
Though it is a world economy and some of the products used to produce bowling equipment are made world wide (ie. resin BASF and Bayer both EU companies) I do applaud USA manufacturing efforts by those bowling manufacturers that do manufacture in the USA creating jobs on Labor Day! :)
Hmmm, my new Maxim spare ball still has the "Ebonite Made in USA" logo stamped on it. Misleading, perhaps?