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Butterfly (brand)

Japanese sports equipment company

Summary

Japanese sports equipment company

Field	Value
name	Tamasu Co., Ltd.
logo	Butterfly brand logo.svg
logo_size	150
image	Tamasu Butterfly Head Office.Tokyo.JPG
image_caption	Tamasu headquarters in Tokyo, Japan
type	Public KK
foundation
location	Suginami, Tokyo, Japan
key_people	Shunsaku Yamada
industry	Sports equipment
products
area_served	Worldwide
homepage
footnotes

Tamasu is a major table tennis apparel and equipment supplier using the brand name Butterfly, based in Japan with offices in Moers, Germany (Tamasu Butterfly Europe), Shanghai (Tamasu Butterfly China) and Seoul (Tamasu Butterfly Korea). The company was founded in 1950 in Yanai city, Japan, by Hikosuke Tamasu, a Japanese table tennis player at the time.

Butterfly sponsors top players and coaches in different countries such as USA, Korea, Canada, Germany, Japan, Poland, and many more. Butterfly is not only a corporation that supplies table tennis players with equipment and clothes, but also sponsors tournaments, open camps for training, and have clubs located in the Americas. The Butterfly blades use carbon materials such as Tamasu Carbon (TamCa) 5000, or Uniaxial Light Carbon (ULC), fiber materials such as Arylate (AL) or Zylon (ZL), or composite materials such as Arylate + TamCa5000 (ALC) or Zylon + ULC (ZLC) or high molarity (Super) ZLC (SZLC).

References

"Company Profile". Tamasu.
Saslow, Eli. (January 12, 2008). "Youth Is Serving - Table Tennis Prodigy Paddles Toward U.S. Olympic Team". [[The Washington Post]].
"Company Profile". [[Bloomberg L.P.]].
Marshall, Ian. (December 16, 2003). "Associating With Youth". International Table Tennis News.

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