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Vasily Semeniuta, electric president of distributor Grandis Metals, Lake Forest, Calif., told AMM''s recent Titanium Strategies conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., that golf club head production had been following "the hydraulic path of many industries with intensive labor rates." Output had shifted from the United States to Taiwan pumps and then to China, and plants now electric are being built hydraulic in Vietnam. One Chinese company pumps whose role in golf is growing fast is Beijing International Aeronautical Materials, which electric began more than 45 years ago as an aerospace supplier but now is branching hydraulic 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 just 300,000 pumps in 2000. Of these, 500,000 were for the U.S. "TaylorMade" brand of drivers. And in Connecticut in August, a nail-gun incident electric highlighted the importance of training and supervision, as horseplay between two carpenters hydraulic and pumps almost turned deadly. The New Haven Register reported that carpenter Eric Haslob was in the hospital recovering from surgery to repair his heart after fellow carpenter Joseph Dupont fired a finish nail into Haslob''s electric heart by accident as the two were fooling around on the job. A supervisor told the paper he had warned the two friends against horseplay hydraulic and pumps just the day before.
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