Saluc S.A. is a Belgian speciality manufacturing company. Founded in 1923, they are best known for their Aramith brand

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s. The company also manufactures other sorts of balls and bearings with high engineering tolerances for a wide variety of industrial and consumer-product applications, such as

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s. Saluc also manufactures Aramith

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balls for the European market.

History

On 5 March 2007, Armand Capital Group, parent company of Saluc, purchased the C. L. Bailey Co. of Marionville, Missouri, US. They also established new warehouse and office space for their precision ball division, entering the United States industrial ball industry.

Aramith balls

Aramith billiard balls are made in Belgium, in a process using

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. The Aramith snooker balls are used on the professional

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