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Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Louisville Slugger closes CA factory, outsources aluminum and composite bats to China
Hillerich & Bradsby, the company behind the Louisville Slugger brand of baseball bat, is shutting down its manufacturing facility in Ontario and moving the operations to China, according to a report in the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky.
The Ontario, Calif. plant, which made aluminum and composite bats, has 42 employees, according to the report. With the move, the only manufacturing facility the company will keep in America is the wood-bat facility in Louisville.
When you go to future amateur baseball games, whether they be college or little league, the ping will have been Made in China.
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1. Jim Wisinskiwhat an arm pit.
they must have given them some real great tax benefits to move into Ontario in the first place
Err... something like that.
I dont know about that, but it definitely is our country.
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