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.