ISSUE 2 APR - JUN 2015 QUARTERLY YOUR GUIDE TO ALL THE DEVELOPMENTS IN SYNTHETIC TURF ESTO RELEASE A SERIES OF ESTO LAUNCHES QUALITY MAJOR REPORTS LANDSCAPE CLASSIFICATION PLUS: » NEW RUGBY PITCH FOR CARDIFF BLUES » WORLD CUP RECORDS AT MONTREAL ... AND MUCH MORE SYNTHETIC TURF FOR PITCHES FOR VITESSE GELREDOME FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP STADIUM AND TRAINING FACILITY CANADA 2015 TEN CATE THIOLON comments on the club’s investment in the new professional sports surface: “To be able to Dutch football club, Vitesse, is having a new pitch compete in elite sports, you need to have the laid at its home stadium, the GelreDome, as well very best facilities available. Our pitch at the BONAR YARNS & FABRICS LTD measures including skin friendliness, resilience as at its Papendal training facility. The prestigious GelreDrome last season left something to and durability. Arhnem club came fifth in the 2014-15 Dutch be desired. As a leading club, we can benefit hugely from a world-class natural grass pitch. This year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup will be The synthetic turf will be expertly installed by Eredivisie. The club elected for revolutionary GreenFields will now provide us with that pitch, the first to feature synthetic turf throughout Carpell Surfaces over a foam pad and finished hybrid natural grass pitches, XtraGrass™, which which represents an important step towards the entire tournament, enhancing playing with TPE infill. Following stringent, independent will be laid during the season’s Summer break. securing our future and achieving our ambitious conditions and performance. field testing, the pitch will be used throughout XtraGrass is a natural grass pitch, enhanced with but wholly realistic objectives as a professional the tournament, including the quarter-final and a woven artificial grass backing. The proportion football club.” Act Global and their partner Carpell Surfaces, semi-final matches. of natural grass to artificial grass in the pitch’s will once again be supplying and installing the In addition, Vitesse’s training facility, Papendal The FIFA Testing and Certification criteria are composition is 90 percent to ten percent, artificial turf at Montreal Olympic Stadium – will also receive an XtraGrass™ pitch for use by based on the benchmarks of natural grass fields respectively. The hybrid XtraGrass system is incorporating exclusive Bonar Yarns synthetic the first eleven. Preparations are already under in good condition, to ensure the best playing an innovation by GreenFields, part of Dutch grass fibres. This partnership also supplied way on the main training pitch at Papendal for surface for the elite women’s world cup players. materials technology enterprise, Royal Ten Cate synthetic turf for the 2014 U-20 Women’s World the laying of a GreenFields® MX artificial grass The FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015 will NV. Cup, with resounding success. pitch; the newest edition of the woven artificial take place from June 6 to July 5. Greatness is in This latest generation of hybrid natural grass grass system. The high-performing FIFA Certified pitch will the Detail pitches is distinguished by its durability, evenness feature, FIFA preferred producer, Act Global’s Agterberg is the company overseeing this project For more information about their fundraising and stability, while successfully meeting the high latest Xtreme Turf DX system, which contains and is also in charge of the overall maintenance efforts visit: Act Global and Carpell Surfaces standards of playability expected from natural an exclusive fibre blend from Bonar Yarns. grass football pitches at the game’s highest level. of the Vitesse training complex. The highly durable system outperforms other XtraGrass means durability, evenness and monofilament structures on a variety of stability Joost de Wit, general manager at Vitesse 2 ESTO QUARTERLY ESTO QUARTERLY 3 ESTO RELEASE A SERIES OF ESTO ADHESIVES MAJOR REPORTS DOCUMENT RELEASE The European Synthetic Turf Organisation has The ESTO Adhesives Working Group as recently recently released a number of new reports released its Best Practice Guide for Adhesive about synthetic turf including Russia 2018 Seam Jointing. and Synthetic Turf and Synthetic Turf and Led by the Working Group's chairman Brian Rugby Development in France. Spencer, the final document released by the Additionally, the ESTO Report on the Working Group covers the basics of the process Importance of Synthetic Turf in the Overall before going into more detail on subjects such FIFA CANADA WOMEN’S Strategy of German Football looks at the as correct techniques, issues that can arrise and successful example of German football and remadies for these issues. its overall development strategy as a basis, WORLD CUP 2015 exploring the strategic importance of using In future years they will look at what all the pre-event synthetic turf within a long-term football ESTO LAUNCHES development and performance plan for QUALITY fuss was about. football associations. LANDSCAPE ESTO’s Medical and Injuries Report on CLASSIFICATION The synthetic turfs in Canada for the FIFA WOMEN’s WORLD CUP have certainly played a major Synthetic Turf and Natural Grass recognises part in the overall players performance – ensuring each match the players can maximise their the similarities between synthetic turf June 16th was the official launch of the Landscape playing performance on a high quality surface which will not deteriorate (unlike natural grass) and good natural grass in terms of ball Quality Classification. The document through the tournament as more matches are played in such an extensive period. This latest behaviour, feel and injury risks. The new ESTO http://theesto.com/landscape/ describes the positive development of synthetic turf in Canada coincides with several new reports showing medical and injuries research paper offers a ESTO classification of synthetic turf landscaping the performance, medical and player benefits of synthetic turf. comparison of player injury risk between the floor coverings that are designed for outdoor use. use of natural grass and synthetic turf. It details how the products are classified based on their resistance to pile wear and fibrillation TECHNICAL UPDATE ON CEN and the pile’s ability to remain vertical when subjected to simulate use. It also describes an ESTO REPORT ESTO REPORT: DEVELOPMENT OF RUGBY AND GERMAN FOOTBALL STRATEGY Meetings of CEN TC 217 WG6 and 11 were held format of the specification for synthetic turf used SYNTHETIC TURF IN FRANCE AND THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF SYNTHETIC TURF: “ESTO luxury rating” based on the appearance and A BLUEPRINT FOR FOOTBALL ASSOCIATIONS TO CONSID- ER SYNTHETIC TURF AS A LONG TERM DEVELOPMENT AND last week with Alastair Cox being the convenor. indoors has been agreed. It will be restricted PERFORMANCE STRATEGY. feel of certain types of synthetic turf landscaping ESTO is the exclusive sponsor/funder for Alastair to long pile football and rugby surfaces. It is turf. The objective of the ESTO classification is to Cox to help ensure ESTO and ESTO members proposed that short pile tennis surfaces should provide guidance in the form of a set of criteria are even closer to technical developments and be considered by the new tennis working group and testing methods, to assist interested parties potential standards going forwards. For reference that CEN TC 217 is proposing (we may wish to in comparing the relative performance, durability The following ESTO members participated discuss this as they are looking for a convenor). and appearance of different landscaping turfs. The through their national committee: It has also been agreed that EN 15330-1 should classification only applies to outdoor landscaping Polytan be reviewed and revised. Details of proposed turfs. Those designed for indoor use are already Bonar Yarns amendments, corrections or new requirements covered by European Standard EN 14041: Resilient, Melos are to be requested. ESTO Members should notify Textile and Laminate floor coverings. Essential Sekisui Alveo their national standards bodies of any changes characteristics. Grainer Multi-foam they would like to see being considered. RUSSIA 2018 FIFA WORLD CUP ESTO MEDICAL AND INJURIES REPORT ISA Sport The next meetings will be held 1 and 2nd October AND SYNTHETIC TURF LEGACY? ON SYNTHETIC TURF AND NATURAL ESTO AWARDS 2015 TO TAKE GRASS IN FOOTBALL Labosport (France and Italy) in Oslo. PLACE IN COLOGNE World Rugby, the FIH and Norwegian FA were also Further information will be communicated later in present. the year and an update at the ESTO Congress. Following the success of the inaugural ESTO Football Awards in 2014, the next edition of the The meetings made good progress. The EN for ESTO awards will be taking place in Cologne on shockpads now has a first draft that was approved the 28th of October 2015, make sure you save the by the working group. Further work is required, date! Take a look at the ESTO Awards brochure for but we are on target for the CEN timescale. The more information. INJURIES AND SYNTHETIC TURF IN INTERNATIONAL RUGBY BOARD 4 ESTO QUARTERLY ESTO QUARTERLY 5 WEST HIGHLAND WAY CHARITY WALK BONAR YARNS & FABRICS LTD THE CARDIFF BLUES DELIGHTED WITH A massive congratulations to Bonar Yarns staff members, Bruce RUGBY SYNTHETIC TURF PITCH Harper and Chris Lafferty who took part and completed the West Highland Way Walk (WHW) on 8th April 2015, in aid of charity AT THE ARMS PARK – Meningitis Now. It was a long and exhausting experience; however both Bruce and Chris thoroughly enjoyed themselves The Cardiff Blues, one of the greatest rugby teams The new surface will allow games to go ahead and have conquered a task that had been on their ‘To Do’ list in the United Kingdom, play in the Pro12 – one no matter the weather and hopefully enable for quite some time. The WHW consisted of a 97 mile walk from of the three major professional rugby leagues us to play a more expansive and attractive Milgavie to Fort William, split over a six day period, and was in Europe, which involves twelve teams from game for supporters to enjoy”.