True Temper Sports shafts are designed and engineered at the Grafalloy headquarters in San Diego, California. True Temper Sports True Temper Sports is a sports equipment manufacturing company based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. The company specializes in OEM and consumer golf club shafts, and also manufactures bicycle forks (and tubing for bike frame builders), ice hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks, baseball bats and other steel and carbon fiber products. True Temper manufactures shafts for many of the major golf club manufacturers including Adams, Bridgestone, Callaway, Cleveland, Cobra, Mizuno, Nike, Ping, TaylorMade, Titleist and Wilson. Production of steel shafts takes place in the United
Miracle Recreation Equipment Company manufacture playgrounds and sets for the fast food industry. Miracle purchased the Setmaker Company in California, and with the help of Claude’s son, Paul Ahrens, creating playground designs for fast food giant McDonald's. Miracle had installed play equipment at over 500 McDonald’s throughout the USA. Together, Paul and Claude developed over 16 patents for their designs. Paul Ahrens became president of Miracle in 1972, the same year the company sold 30% of its shares to the public. After facing labor struggles in the 1980s, the company began moving some operations to factories outside of Grinnell, Iowa. Paul announced plans in