Table tennis brands by production volume

[arashfarshadi]

Hello everyone.In your opinion, who are the biggest table tennis brands in terms of blade and rubber production volume?

 

[Archo]

I'd be surprised if Hurricane 3 doesn't place somewhere in the top of the rubber production. They make it in multiple factories in dozens of versions.

 

[passifid]

The big Chinese brands will be top by a long way then after that probably nittaku and bty (nittaku outsells bty in jpn btw)

It will look nothing like the western market does

 

[arashfarshadi]

Does that mean that companies like Stiga, Andro and Tibhar are almost small?
It would be great if you could rate it (I know companies don't make their information public)

 

[plunder]

If we're talking about production volume (number of blades and rubber sheets manufactured), rather than brand prestige, sales revenue or professional-player popularity, I'd distinguish between the two product categories.

### 1. Likely volume leaders

| Brand | Blades | Rubbers | My assessment |
| -------------- | --------- | --------- | ---------------------------------- |
| DHS | Very high | Very high | Probably among the biggest overall |
| Yinhe / Galaxy | Very high | Very high | Major mass-market manufacturer |
| 729 Friendship | High | Very high | Particularly strong in rubbers |
| Double Fish | High | Medium | Large Chinese manufacturer |
| Sanwei | High | High | Major Chinese producer |
| Butterfly | High | High | Major international premium brand |
| Stiga | High | Medium | Significant blade manufacturer |

### 2. Other important manufacturers

- Palio
- Sword
- Nittaku
- Xiom
- Yasaka
- Tibhar
- Donic

### 3. An interesting comparison

There is at least one useful hard-number reference: in an interview, a Stiga representative reported annual production of approximately:

- 150,000–200,000 blades.
- 150,000–200,000 rubber sheets.

Butterfly, meanwhile, confirmed that its main blade production and rubber manufacturing take place in Japan, but did not disclose comparable production quantities.

My conclusion: If I had to bet on the biggest manufacturers by sheer unit volume, I'd put DHS, Yinhe and 729 among the strongest candidates, with Sanwei also worth considering.

One important caveat: there is no reliable publicly available global production-volume ranking. Also, brand ownership and actual manufacturing are not necessarily the same thing: OEM production makes comparisons particularly difficult.

For reference: IndexBox – Eastern Asian table tennis equipment market discusses the Chinese volume leaders.

 

[arashfarshadi]

I thought that 729 and double fish don't have special blades and rubber And they produce a small number like project z

 

[Archo]

I thought that 729 and double fish don't have special blades and rubber And they produce a small number like project z

729 is state owned, so I'd be surprised if they only produce a small amount.

 

[jonol]

Most TT brands are not public companies with tradable stocks, so there's no real way of knowing what their production and sales volume is. The next best thing is to go by the volumes indicated by the largest TT equipment suppliers.

Seems that Butterfly & DHS are probably the clear biggest producers, followed by high popularity brands like Nittaku, Tibhar, Stiga and Donic. They have multiple products that are popular in multiple regions.

Then you have a whole lot of other brands like Yasaka, Xiom, Andro, Joola and at least a dozen others that either have a broad selection of decently popular products (Xiom) or a smaller selection of very popular ones (Yasaka).

Impossible to know for sure what the exact ranking is, but based on the most popular selling items across most regions I think it's safe to say that Butterfly and DHS are both near the top of the chain.

 

[zeio]

Sunflex, a Hong Kong and German brand, is probably the biggest by volume.

 

[Airoc]

Sunflex, a Hong Kong and German brand, is probably the biggest by volume.

Maybe not as a brand on their own, but surely if you take in the number of blades they produce for others.

 

[zeio]

If we limit the scope to production volume for the brand itself only, then the biggest number I've come across is 1.8 million pieces of tacky rubber a year, a claim made by 729 in 2024 that it's the No.1 in China.

For comparison, DHS sold 1 million and 1.25 million pieces of H3 all around the world a year in 2010 and 2011 (internal data), and their sales exploded in 2015 and beyond so it's likely much higher since then. Butterfly claimed in 2013 that they produced 1 million pieces of rubber a year, and their sales exploded in 2017 and beyond so it's likely much higher since then.

For reference, ESN, which produces for 17 brands, claims to produce "millions of pieces of rubber" a year as of 2025 with a market share of 50% as of 2022.