Visitors looking towards the horizon from the UWI Cave Hill Campus in Barbados will notice two sights: the glistening blue of the Caribbean Sea and the blue and yellow synthetic track on which UWI students and athletes of the state alike have been training since 2013. read more

BASF/CONICA eqips the new held WTA tournament in Katowice, Poland with the product CONIPUR PRO CLAY. It is hosted from the 8 till the 14 April 2013. Katowice is one of just two indoor clay court tournaments on the calendar. The other one will be the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. read more

The 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in the Swedish city of Göteborg from the 1st to 3rd March. The new 200 meter-running track in the Scandinavium was produced and installed by the Estonian company Kanstet OÜ. read more

According to the statutes of the Tennis Fed Cup, the Swiss team had the right to choose the surface of the tie against Belgium. Swiss Tennis and Team Captain Heinz Günthardt decided in favor of the clay court system CONIPUR PRO CLAY from CONICA sports surfaces. read more

The Cathay Pacific Sun Hung Kai Financial Hong Kong Squash Open 2012 took place in Hong Kong from 25th November till 2nd December. More than 100 top-notch players from six continents have participated. The event was supported by HARO Sports Flooring. read more

New from Stadiaworld: The E-Magazine „Sports flooring“ informs about all aspects round mobile and solid installed sports floorings. Regardless of whether sports hall or outdoor facility, linoleum, PVC or rubber you learn everything about planning, construction, care and co. read more

It took almost ten years to complete the discussions on the replacement of the Revius Lyceum in Wijk bij Duurstede, the Netherlands, which had become obsolete and too small. The company Descol was commissioned to install several new floors in the school. read more

The 2013 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in the Swedish city of Göteborg from the 1st to 3rd March. The new 200 meter-running track in the multi-purpose arena Scandinavium was produced and installed by the Estonian company Kanstet OÜ. read more

The National Stadium of the Ukraine had gone through an extensive rebuilding and a modernization process on the way to the EURO 2012. The company CONICA, which belongs to the BASF AG, equipped the stadium at this time with a new track. read more

Since 1994-Sportboden GmbH, domiciled in Remscheid, has been producing sport floorings of different kinds. Tennis carpets are forming the main part of the production. This year, Schöpp has already delivered and laid some 140 tennis courts. Several laying-teams are being employed. read more

York House School in Hertfordshire is set in magnificent surroundings with plenty of open space and superb facilities, both academically and on the sporting front. Over three years ago, Playrite’s Steve Byrnes first spoke about their project to build a multi-use games area. read more

Playrite equipped in Battersea, Somerset, St Albans and in Bude multi use games areas with Matchplay 2 – a durable, hardwearing option that requires low maintenance to keep the surface in good condition makes Matchplay 2 a proper multi use surface for schools, clubs and community use. read more

The Polish specialist for sports flooring HEMET Sp z o.o. has installed a running track for the training field in the complex of the Olympic Stadium in Helsinki. In the Finnish capital a total of 9030 square meters of Conipur M IAAF class2 has been processed. read more

The Porplastic Sportbau von Cramm GmbH & Co KG, a manufacturer of sports flooring material and installation specialist, has carried a complete eight-lane facility in blue on the new sports facility in the private De La Salle Collegues on the rocky island of Malta. read more

At the removal of the sports flooring in Yuba City College instead of the anticipated three inches depression of the slab a depression measuring of 5.5 to 7 inches was discovered. The specialist Action Floor Systems was assigned to develop a solution for the college. read more

Rhonda Cynon Taff Council decided to update the facilities on offer to the local community at Treherbert Park in Treorchy. The officer, Kevin Huish, selected two Playrite products. The surfaces were Conqueror 50, a 3g synthetic football grass and Matchplay 2 in terracotta. read more

Playrite equipped Stockwell Park High School’s multi use games areas with Matchplay 2 – a durable, hardwearing option that requires low maintenance to keep the surface in good condition makes Matchplay 2 a proper multi use surface for schools, clubs and community use. read more

For the fifth time in a row, the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart, Germany (21 to 29 April 2012), one of the major WTA Tour tournaments relied on CONIPUR Tennis Force, the clay court system of CONICA sports surfaces. The number of players attending was impressive. read more

The Stadiaworld E-magazine about sports flooring provides a comprehensive introduction to flooring systems for gymnasiums, multifunctional arenas and outdoor installations. It explains which standards have to be met and which products are suitable for which purposes. read more

The BSW GmbH, a supplier of sports and leisure surfaces, built a blue tartan track on the campus of the University in Kingston (Jamaica) one year ago. Sprint star Usain Bolt and his team colleagues did their daily training sessions on this tartan track. read more

By order of the Gibraltar Government Sports Department, ISA Sport once again performed a triennial quality assessment at Victoria Stadium at the beginning of March and assessed the sports venues on the basis of the prevailing standards. It takes place once every three years. read more

Triple gold medallist of the Olympic Games in Peking 2008 Evan O’Hanlon, who starts at the handicapped class T38, set a new 100-meters race world record of 10.88 seconds on the new Lakeside Stadium synthetic track Rekortan M99 at the Australian Olympic Trails. read more

Schneider Präsentationstechnik GmbH offers a new device for marking of playing fields. The eight-part set can be extended with a circle cutter as special accessories to cut markings in sports flooring. The standard set includes two heads for different kinds of marking. read more

Action Floor Systems, LLC, manufacturer of permanent and portable hardwood maple and synthetic sports floors, is providing a portable playing surface at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont, Illinois to serve as home court for the WNBA women’s basketball team, the Chicago Sky. read more

Due to increased demand for floors with high impact absorption on one hand, and the highest possible mobility on the other, the German-Australian duo Hamberger Sports Flooring GmbH & Co KG and Rebound Ace® has now come up with the new product HARO Rom Tennis. read more

The quality assurance organization Kiwa and ISA Sport, the professional knowledge institute for high-quality, durable and safe sports facilities recently announced to form a team for testing, inspecting and certifying playing surfaces, such as artificial turf pitches. read more

The school sports facilities on the island Langeoog were equipped with new floorings from Porplastic Sportbau von Cramm llc. The running track was renovated with PORPLASTICSB economic, a new multipurpose field (PORPLASTIC2S game+track) and two new long jumps. read more

The high-performance, low density DOWLEX Polyethylene Resin developed by the Performance Plastics Division of The Dow Chemical Company will be used for the artificial grass for the pitches of the Hockey Centre at the London Olympic Games from July 29 to August 11, 2012. read more

Warwick University is one of the UK’s leading universities. Recently they upgraded the old macadam courts to synthetic clay. The British company Playrite and its product Clayrite were the first choice for the new tennis surfaces at the university. read more