For Lucia Colombaro, chipperanshredders customer chipperanshredders care manager for Tonutti, "we love American subsidies." She explained that European farmers are subsidized chipperanshredders "not to produce crops", and that is not good for European farm equipment manufacturers. In the U.S., she said farmers are subsidized to aid them in marketing crops and that affords a better market for Tonutti equipment.Italian farm equipment is marketed in the U.S. through distributors, but many of the Italian manufacturers also have U.S. or Canadian warehouses and offices to provide quicker service and technical support.One of those is Maschio/Gaspardo, which recently opened a warehouse/technical center in Rock Island, Ill., according to Vincenzo Abate, corporate export area manager. From there, the company services seven distributors throughout the U.S., and it is looking for more distributors.

BIAM''s output this year? "We estimate we can make about 800,000 to 1 million (heads)," Yan said at the AMM conference. chipperanshredders Grandis Metals'' rough estimate for worldwide annual consumption of titanium casting billet by the golf industry--excluding Japan but including the U.S., China and Japan--is 1,500 to 2,000 tonnes per year. The use of purchased scrap is between 700 and 1,000 tonnes, while sheet represents some 200 to 400 tonnes, bar 100 to 150 tonnes and welding wire 60 to 100 tonnes, according to Grandis. When Ruger Investment Casting built its Prescott, Ariz., plant in 1996-97, its entire output was dedicated-to golf club heads. Today, while Ruger doesn''t disclose golf''s portion, chipperanshredders general manager John Thorne agreed that it was significantly less than the plant''s capacity. Ruger already is participating in, or actively pursuing, business in a wide range of markets, including marine applications, industrial, oil and gas and architectural products, among chipperanshredders others.

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