Launch Technologies makes golf balls in Pingtung County, Taiwan. It is a contract manufacturer for golf brands, and Callaway names it as the source of a significant portion of its non-urethane golf balls.
Customers
In a September 2023 SEC filing, Topgolf Callaway Brands said it uses several contract manufacturers in Asia for its non-urethane golf balls, including Launch Technologies. The filing says part of Callaway's value golf balls and the Topgolf range balls were made at Launch's Pingtung plant, and most of the balls Launch supplied to Callaway came from a separate dedicated facility.
The Associated Press reported that Launch's 2021 annual report lists Callaway, TaylorMade, Bridgestone, Mizuno and Wilson among the brands its factories supply. The same report, citing Taiwan's Central News Agency, said the company shipped about 260 million golf balls in 2022, about one fifth of the global total, and that about 80% of its sales are in the United States.
2023 factory fire
On September 22, 2023, a fire and explosions at the Launch plant in the Pingtung Technology Industrial Park killed at least nine people, including four firefighters, according to the AP. Callaway's 2025 annual report says the separate facility that made most of its Launch balls was not operational for nearly six months after the fire.