Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co., was founded by Capt. Lester Crandall who manufactured fishing line. He devised and perfected several line-making machines. Ashaway produced the first commercial nylon product in the world - fishing line - when a then young company, DuPont, was looking for a use for its new filament. Ashaway began making racket strings in its Rhode Island plants. The year Dacron® was introduced, Ashaway used it in a fishing line. The company introduced the first Kevlar® tennis string to the market. Ashaway celebrated 175 years of manufacturing in Rhode Island and 50 years of producing world-class racket strings. Ashaway introduces new ZyMax® badminton strings manufactured with Ashaway's revolutionary ZyWeave TM core technology. ZyMax 62 is the thinnest badminton string ever produced. Vectran® is a registered trademark of Celanese Advanced Materials, Inc. Dacron and Kevlar® are registered trademarks of E.I. DuPont de Nemours and Co.