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Founded in 1978, with the founder’s early strategic moves and visions in the development of sports of wakeboard, snowboard, and related accessories and parts, as well as maintaining the changes and transforming with ample experience and high-quality products, PLAYMAKER has succeeded in obtaining critical leading position in both R&D and manufacture of surfing sports equipment.
PLAYMAKER earns worldwide recognition, especially from European and North American customers. With honor and dedication, PLAYMAKER helps Taiwan once again become the most important R&D center in the competitive sports industry around the world.
In the 80s, PLAYMAKER focused on badminton and tennis racket manufacturing and exporting. The success that we received from years of international trading has led us to believe that, in the foreseeable future, competitive sports will play a big role in the world economy and our company’s growth. Competitive sports would become a trend and revolutionize for the next 30 to 50 years. While we fought through all the obstacles and enjoyed success and growth, we faced a great challenge from the rise of China, South East Asia, Sri Lanka, and Eastern Europe, in their manufacturing ability. Coincidentally, the trend was shifting in the world of sporting goods. People went from swinging rackets and roller-skating to ever-popular in-line skating. In-line skating became popular in the USA. We saw the opportunity for change and started making skateboards and inline skates in Taiwan. It was overwhelming to see the growth and how people are crazy about in-line skating, so we took the steps and went west and started manufacturing plants in Fuzhou China to cope with large demands.
Because of the success of changing the company’s direction, we started researching and developing snowboards and wakeboards. Due to the high threshold, no other factories in Taiwan were optimistic about the investment, but we saw it as a challenge that we must overcome. We spent countless amounts of resources and capital in 8 years, had meetings with some key players in the industries, and went through many corrections and modifications, we finally earned the respect and recognition for our manufacturing ability and quality from our European and North American partners.
PLAYMAKER is the only sporting goods manufacturer in the world that does exceptionally well in both winter sport (snowboard) and summer sport (wakeboard) equipment.
BREAK THROUGH THE LIMITATIONS
BREAK THROUGH THE LIMITATIONS
PLAYMAKER started its own R&D center focusing on finding new materials and lowering costs. Our team works closely with experts from within Taiwan and specialists from overseas to create the best materials to use on our products and offer to our clients.
We work with internationally well-known brands around the world. NITRO from Switzerland, HEAD from Germany, HYPERLITE from USA, ROSSIGNOL from France, F-ONE, TORQ are some of the brands and companies we work with.
We work with internationally well-known brands around the world. NITRO from Switzerland, HEAD from Germany, HYPERLITE from USA, ROSSIGNOL from France, F-ONE, TORQ are some of the brands and companies we work with.
PLAYMAKER has its own dedicated team and working area for material studying, testing, and developing. Our team is to work with experts from within Taiwan and specialists from abroad. Results are substantially lowering cost. We built and acquired new machineries and equipment for the manufacturing of surfboards, wakesurfs, kitesurfs, and SUP. These products require high precision in the molds and in the process. For making these products, we are the first company that fully utilizes molds as appose to hand made.
Since 2013, PLAYMAKER successfully earned the respect and a critical spot in the world of surfing in R&Ding and manufacturing.
