True Temper Golf Shafts

Since the USGA legalized steel as a replacement for hickory golf club shafts, True Temper Sports has produced about 70% of these shafts at a rate of about 100,000 per day.

True Temper Sports' (Amory, MS) steel golf shafts are the product of 41 individual manufacturing steps. Among the most critical is polishing, a precisely controlled abrasive belt process which prepares the metal for plating baths of duplex nickel, then chrome. These final steps are what give the shafts their perfect, high-gloss shine. Because polishing is so integral to both product appearance and product performance, every effort has been made to assure the process is optimally consistent, and reliable.
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As with all metal polishing operations, the safe and efficient collection of airborne particulate--fines and process dusts--is a key concern. A second important issue is the management and disposal of that collected material. Those concerns are heightened when, as with True Temper, production is "24/7".

In 2002, True Temper decided to replace one of several polishing process dust collectors, which, due to internal corrosion and an increasing demand for maintenance, had become obsolete. The company considered several alternatives, including both wet and dry dust collection equipment.