First and still the finest™
The manufacturing advantage.
Located in the prime sisal-growing heartland of East Africa, our facility sets the world standard for premium bristle dartboards, tungsten darts and every piece of equipment in between.
- Sisal fibres in every bristle dartboard
- 2m
- Of compression applied to each board
- 10t
- Grams per cubic centimetre: the density of tungsten
- 19.3
- Vertically integrated manufacturing
- 100%
Vertically integrated
Unrivalled control, from component to customer.
With a unique, 100% vertically integrated engineering foundation for in-house component manufacture, the Group has unrivalled control over quality, innovation, research and development, production efficiency and speed to market.
That same control lets us manage costs and guarantee continuous supply to our customers all over the world.
Dartboards for the world stage
Two million fibres. Ten tonnes of pressure.
Sisal is one of the “hard fibre” family of plants, found naturally in the equatorial regions of East Africa and Latin America. In use since the time of the Pharaohs, its immense strength made it the British Admiralty’s choice for ropes and rigging for centuries. Despite years of research, no other fibre meets the criteria for tournament-specification bristle dartboards.
Each of our dartboards contains around two million prime East African sisal fibres. Every fibre is individually lubricated, secured and circumferentially compressed to more than 10 tonnes. The result: smooth dart penetration and removal, maximum durability and the ultimate scoring potential.
Aerospace-grade tungsten
Twice as heavy as steel.
At 19.3 grams per cubic centimetre, tungsten is one of the heaviest metals on Earth: more than twice as heavy as steel and seven times heavier than aluminium. That makes it ideal for grouping slim projectiles tightly into the small, high-scoring zones of a dartboard.
Made directly from tungsten concentrates using a powder-metallurgy and sintering process refined over 50 years, the Group is the world’s largest producer of aerospace-grade tungsten for sports applications. Every dart is CNC-mapped, PVD-detailed and individually match-weighed for complete consistency.
Research & development
A hundred years of looking for an edge.
From the invention of the bristle dartboard to the world-famous Blade series, the Group prides itself on technological innovation. For 100 years our goal has been simple: to give every dart player, recreational and professional alike, the finest, most technically advanced equipment and the tools to win.
With millions in prize funds available every year, the search for any technological advantage has never mattered more. It’s a fitting tribute to our engineers that our dartboards are the boards of choice for the Professional Darts Corporation, and our darts are used by so many of the world’s greatest players.
