 | Ashaway Line & Twine Mfg. Co., was founded by Capt. Lester Crandall who manufactured fishing line. He devised and perfected several line-making machines.
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 | 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.
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 | Ashaway began making racket strings in its Rhode Island plants.
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 | The year Dacron® was introduced, Ashaway used it in a fishing line.
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 | The company introduced the first Kevlar® tennis string to the market.
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 | Ashaway celebrated 175 years of manufacturing in Rhode Island and 50 years of producing world-class racket strings.
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 | Ashaway entered the new millennium with major developments in Vectran® string technology.
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