As you watch your ball hit the pins for a strike do you ever contemplate where the pins and the other equipment are made? The answer for 50 per cent of bowling balls and 150,000 pins a year is the beautiful town of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Ebonite International has made its home right there in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. It is the Mecca of the bowling world. They are a major “umbrella” corporation. Similar to other umbrellas, like Ford Motor Company or The Gap, Ebonite International owns many different brands that you will recognize and maybe would have thought were even each other’s competition. These brands like, Hammer Bowling, Columbia 300, Track, Dyno-Thane, Power House and Robby’s,
It is exciting to have a company like Ebonite produce such amazing products but also do it right here in the USA. Their CEO Randy Schickert said regarding job creation and manufacturing in the US, “I think it’s important to try and keep the focus here in the U.S. we don’t need to be just a service based organization. There still needs to be manufacturing here in this country,”
Check out the full article and now you know where your most beloved brands are coming from. Buying your own ball and equipment should make you feel extra warm and fuzzy inside when you know that you are buying American. Especially when you obliterate all ten of those pins with your Ebonite Warning Sign!
http://ebonitebowlingcenterdirect.com/news/news_detail/new_employees_make_bowling_pins_at_hopkinsville_factory
