A Golf Ball Made with Amorphous Metal Alloy
The Attomax golf ball developed by Kolon Industries using an amorphous metal alloy has been officially recognized as the world's longest distance golf ball.
The company announced on June 14 that the World Record Committee (WRC) of the United States, a world-class record certification organization, certified its Attomax golf ball as the world’s longest golf ball.
In a certification test conducted using a WRC-approved robot swinger, the Attomax golf ball flew 13 to 18 meters (15 to 20 yards) more than the 13 types of golf balls from 10 other brands.
The new golf ball uses Attometal powder, an amorphous metal alloy developed by Attometal Tech Korea, a Kolon Group affiliate specializing in new materials.
Attometal is a new material that dramatically boosts elasticity, hardness, corrosion resistance, and abrasion resistance by making the atomic structure of metal irregular.
Although this amorphous metal alloy was first discovered in 1959, it was only in 1993 that it began to be mass-produced. There are only a handful of companies in the world that succeeded in volume production of the amorphous metal alloy. Attometal Tech Korea started to mass-produce the alloy last year.