Varlion

Varlion was founded in 1993 in Argentina, what some argue to be the true birthplace of padel. The first factory opened its doors in Buenos Aires, and started designing and manufacturing their own products, with the top priorities being quality and high performance.

After a few years of research and development, Varlions first racket was drawn up in 1995. It was designed by the founder himself, Felix Regalia, on a piece of paper drawn with a pencil and assisted by a compass. 

It was this very year that Varlion created their first ever racket. With 26cm of width, they christened it the Lethal Weapon. It's shape and characteristics made players love the racket and quickly became the best selling racket in the world. This was the deciding point for Varlion, breaking into international markets. 

In 1999/2001, Varlion moved its factory to Spain. This move helped with the sourcing and manufacturing of new high tech materials that were coming into the market. A new technology at the time, helped Varlion produce the first ever perfectly symmetrical racket in the world!

This led to major qualitative changes in the materials used, the manufacturing processes became more automated and perfected the final quality of the product.

Between 2002 and 2005 the first successors to the Lethal Weapon Carbon were launched, until finally the best-selling racket in the history of padel arrived, the legendary Lethal Weapon Carbon 3.

The year 2006 was a milestone in Varlion's history when they made an investment of €2.500.000 to build a new factory with more than 3.500m2 in the city of Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). For the first time, Varlion would have robotic machines for painting and numerical control drilling of blades. It also included a warehouse, a design department and other divisions of the company.

In 2008 the Avant and Cañon Hexagon were launched. This launch marked the birth of the first rackets on the market characterised by their hexagon-shaped frame and core with a hexagonal texture in relief on the face.

In 2015 Varlion decided to make an even greater commitment to the environment and looked for alternatives to maintain quality without sacrificing care for our ecosystem.

That is why they created the new Econaked aesthetic, with which Varlion managed to reduce the use of paints and solvents by up to 80% by not using them to decorate the blades. Now the rackets are shown as they are, with no paint or aesthetic touches.