Sweden Gets First Taste of SISGrass

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Sweden has had its first taste of the revolutionary SISGrass hybrid system following the turfing of the Gamla Ullevi football stadium in Gothenburg. Premier Pitches removed the pitch and SIS installed the turf in two days.

Despite the inclement weather, the laser-guided installation was completed for handover in just eight days this March, and now puts the Gamla Ullevi Stadium firmly on the map and amongst good company on the international stage with the patented technology.

The stadium, which is used by local teams GAIS, IFK Göteburg and Örgryte IS, is also the home of the Sweden women’s team, ranked eighth in the world.

SISGrass Director, Ivo Lamot, said; “We are delighted to install our first SISGrass pitch in Sweden at the Gamla Ullevi Stadium.

“As a municipal stadium home to three football clubs, it was important to install a turf system that could cope with the demands of more regular matches and deliver the playing hours required whilst maintaining world class consistency.

“SISGrass provides them with an outstanding natural pitch surface with the added resilience and endurance courtesy of our revolutionary stitching process and high quality yarn.”

The SISGrass team were confronted with snow and freezing pitch conditions in Gothenburg but found a solution utilising the ground the pitch cover and under soil heating to deliver the conditions required to stitch the advanced reinforced turf system.

Andy Cole, from iTurf Management who oversaw the project, commented; “From start to finish the SIS Pitches team were outstanding.

“We faced some tough challenges that could have easily resulted in delays to the pitch installation but their knowledge of pitch care and construction and ability to solve problems meant that we delivered on time and went over and above the expectations of the client.”
SISGrass is an advanced reinforced turf system featuring patented fibre injections, which offers increased pitch stability and delivers considerably more playing hours than natural grass surfaces.

SISGrass has also been installed at the training grounds of Chelsea, A.F.C Bournemouth, Hull City, Fulham, Derby County, Athletic Bilbao, FC Barcelona and the National Football Centre at St George’s Park, home of the English FA.

SIS Pitches has many years of experience in delivering natural turf pitches and synthetic turf pitches to some of the greatest names in sport as well as to schools, colleges, universities, sports clubs and local authorities. SIS Pitches has offices in the UK, Ireland, Russia, Turkey, Holland, Middle East and Angola.

Ventrac Goes on Tour

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Price Turfcare, the newly established business founded by Ransomes Jacobsen’s former International Sales Director, Rupert Price, has been promoting the product with a series of demonstration tours in the South East of England and across the Midlands.

The first venue was at a private school south of the Thames, followed quickly by a trip up the M1 motorway to three venues in the Midlands, including a well-known football club and a couple of prestigious golf courses.

“We had a great road trip,” said Rupert Price. “The demonstration at the training ground of the football club went extremely well. The weather was awful; it was very wet, the banks around the training pitches really quite steep and there was standing water at the base of the banks.

“However, the Ventrac showed what a good machine it is; it mowed the steep grass banks and didn’t leave any tracks, despite the atrocious conditions. I don’t think a conventional machine would have gone near those slopes.

“The golf courses were equally impressed, especially with the versatility of the machine. We demonstrated the out-front rotary deck and the contour mowing deck; both did a great job with the contour deck showing how it coped with bunker edges and slopes.

“There was a lot of positivity around the product and I’m reasonably confident that we’ll achieve a couple of sales from the trip.”

The Steiner family has always been about the business of making life simpler through practical engineering, design ingenuity and good old-fashioned common sense. Those early values passed on by the founder, Marvin Steiner continues to be the driving force that pushes the company to design and manufacture the highest quality equipment available, surpassing the needs of our ever-changing world. In 1998 his sons introduced the brand name VENTRAC and the Steiner brothers focused their energies on the new “next generation” all-wheel-drive compact tractor.

Ventrac’s versatility offers over 30 different attachments and combined with their patented Mount System (which takes less than a minute to attach or detach attachments) provides a compact power pack with maximum performance and versatility for many different sectors within the groundscare industry.

Investigation Under Way After Greenkeepers’ Shed Is Targeted

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A greenkeepers’ shed at a county golf club was broken into on Sunday night.

Police are appealing for witnesses after the shed at Musselburgh Golf Club was targeted at about 10.30pm.

Although nothing was stolen, damage was caused to the doors of the shed and the alarm was activated.

Police believe it may be linked to a similar break-in at Newbattle Golf Club, in Midlothian, on Saturday night where a shed was also targeted and a number of power tools stolen.

Police are asking anyone who has information to come forward.

Sergeant Scott Nicolson said: “As a matter of course we have advised all other golf clubs in the area, to review their security arrangements and we are keen to speak to anyone who noticed any suspicious activity at, or around, Musselburgh Golf Club on Sunday night to come forward immediately.”

Those with information can contact police on 101 or, alternatively anonymously on Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.