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Article: Moving to a new court; Head Penn vet Gagnon, hit hard by closure, using rubber expertise as consultant.(News)
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- Rubber & Plastics News
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- June 15, 2009
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Byline: Mike McNulty
Lou Gagnon has seen and done it all at Head Penn Racquet Sports.
He worked at the company, the last tennis ball and racquetball manufacturer in the U.S., for almost 37 years, and had thought that's where his career would end.
The roof caved in when an announcement came that the firm's parentsports equipment maker Head N.V. Group of Amsterdam, Netherlandswas closing the plant, cutting about 125 jobs at the site and moving production to its relatively new facility in China.
Just like that, the lives of Gagnon and other workers at the facility changed dramatically.
At one time the Phoenix facility was a ...