This story appears in ESPN The Magazine's Aug. 31 Issue. Subscribe today! Since May, Wilson has been hard at work creating 98,000 balls for this year's US Open in their factories near Bangkok. Each ...
Specialist machinery is being auctioned off from a ball bearing factory that closed after a century of operations. SKF began production in Luton in 1911 under the name Skefko Ball Bearing Company and ...
Episode 18: A small woolen mill founded in in 1838 grew to become Mishawaka's largest employer. The Ball-Band factory — later known as U.S. Rubber and then Uniroyal — became well known for the ...