Only an expert manufacturer can create top-quality wooden bats that can help players reach their desired performance goals.
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You must ensure that the manufacturer you selected follows all the steps we discussed above, as The Minelli Group does. Thanks to our decades of experience, we can ensure perfection in quality and design of each product, always following rigorous processes and environment sustainability.
Now, let’s discuss another important issue.
A competent wood manufacturer can offer a wide range of essences and can advise you about the best one. Not all types of wood are ideal to create a bat. Let’s discuss the pros and cons of the most widely used.
Ash is a popular choice thanks to its large sweet spot, which means it delivers solid contact in a larger section of the bat than other types of wood. Ash wood is very flexible, excellent characteristic for the bats. Unfortunately, ash timber availability is limited and becomes less every year.
Maple is a very hard and dense type of wood, so it delivers more power than ash bats when struck properly. It has low flexibility and doesn’t flake, so it lasts a long time, but maple timber costs are rising steadily.
European beech bats have the flexibility of ash and the density and durability of maple. The density of a wooden bat is important, as it determines how far a ball will travel after contact. The elastic memory of this type of wood produces a profound trampoline effect, creating better exit speed and increased distance. European beech is also more durable than other types of wood and it is abundant too. Therefore, it has the perfect combination of flex and hardness to improve performance, and it is more cost-effective.
It is fundamental to choose only FSC certified woods, which guarantees that the raw material comes from responsibly managed forests and provides environmental, social, and economic benefits to local communities. Using wooden products derived from well-managed forests can save them while improving our shared quality of life. Read our dedicated article to learn more about this topic.
If you are looking for a specialized wood maker that can provide top-quality wooden bats following all the steps we described above and with a great focus on sustainability, the Minelli Group is the right choice.
Thanks to our considerable investment in qualified experts and innovative machinery, we have been able to maintain our production in Italy, reducing expenses and guaranteeing maximum cost-effectiveness for our products. Moreover, we can take advantage of the well-known Italian craftsmanship, that we translate also in our American production plant, where we can produce the same top-quality wooden bats.
Our company is especially focused on sustainability. We use only FSC-certified woods, which means they are gathered following strict parameters and standards of environmental and forestry protection. Moreover, we try to make our logistics more sustainable, shortening the process that raw materials go through to reach production in order to reduce our carbon footprint. We also adopt a circular economy model, using scrap to fuel our heating systems, heat drying chambers, and create smaller objects (e.g., cosmetics, spirits caps, and toothbrushes, which represent 90% of our total production).
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