Italian Serie A club Cagliari Calcio has chosen the Sportium consortium to design its new stadium. Read more
Italian Serie A club Cagliari Calcio has chosen the Sportium consortium to design its new stadium. Read more
At the start of the 2018-2019 football season, the Amsterdam ArenA, home of Ajax, will officially change its name to the Johan Cruijff ArenA. Read more
FC Nantes have unveiled images of their planned new 40,000 capacity YelloPark Stadium, designed by Atelier Tom Sheehan & Partenaires (ATSP) and HKS. Read more
Bayern Munich are to give the Allianz Arena a facelift in the club’s colours this summer as the Bundesliga champions-elect finally make the stadium home. Read more
Poland’s most famous stadium, Śląski Stadium (Silesian Stadium) in Chorzów, has undergone a complete rebuild to become one of the most modern football and sporting facilities in Europe. Read more
Cagliari Calcio will name a designer for its new football stadium in April after choosing a shortlist of three architects for the job. Read more
Cricket Ireland is planning the development of a new permanent cricket stadium at the Sport Ireland National Sports Campus in Dublin. Read more
At the recent Structural Awards presented by the Institution of Structural Engineers the ‘Award for Long Span Structures’ was awarded to the impressive San Mames football stadium in Bilbao, Spain. Read more
Traktor Ice Arena, the home venue of Russian Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) club HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, has installed the KHL’s largest 4K centre hung video board. Read more
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All around the world sports and play are important in peoples’ lives. Next to the health and lifestyle benefits, it unites people.
Schmitz Foam Products encourages communities to provide safe play for everyone. Their shock- and drainage pads, engineered under the ProPlay brand, are designed to protect. They are installed underneath synthetic turf pitches for shock absorption, fast drainage and fall protection.
Schmitz acknowledges the importance of safety and giving back to the community. Therefore, Schmitz contributed to some philanthropy projects this year.
New playground facility for children with special needs in the Netherlands
In 2016, Schmitz won the Limburg Export Award. Schmitz Foam Products owner, Jos Schmitz, graciously gifted a portion of the prize money to build a brand new playground at a facility for children with special needs in the city of Valkenburg, Netherlands.
The playground features a synthetic turf surface and Schmitz Foam Products own ProPlay shock pads underneath for safety and fall protection. The grand opening of the playground took place on October 31.
Refurbished outdoor sports area for the Eisenach community in Germany
On November 23, the Mayor of Eisenach officially inaugurated the renovated and redesigned sports complex for the “Ludwig Erhard” medical school in Eisenach Nord – together with the pupils of the medical school and the neighboring state elementary school “Mosewaldschule”.
The small but highly modern sports facility is now available in the residential area of Eisenach Nord. It was urgently needed for school and leisure sports.
The sports facility will be accessible for school sports as well as recreational sports. On the one hand, this increases the possibilities for leisure activities in the residential area, on the other hand it also enables additional activities for the integration of refugees.
Schmitz Foam Products strongly believes in the idea of solidarity for integration, because sport is a great way to unite people.
Schmitz, together with FieldTurf which donated the artificial turf, was committed to participate and decided to donate the ProPlay shock pads for the project.
Softball field donated to youth camp in Tennessee (USA)
The Synthetic Turf Council (STC), the world’s largest organisation dedicated to representing the synthetic turf industry, hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony to donate a new synthetic turf softball field to the Andrew Jackson Police Youth Camp.
Being a long term STC member, Schmitz provided the ProPlay shock- and drainage pad for the pitch. Aerial footage of the project can be seen here.
The summer camp program, located in Wilson County, Tennessee, helps underprivileged children develop team-building skills and break down cultural barriers.
Dan Bond, president and chief executive officer of the Synthetic Turf Council (STC) said:
We are proud that this multi-purpose field will provide thousands of hours of enjoyment for underprivileged youth in the Nashville area.
The STC and its members are fully committed to community wellness and environmental responsibility through the use of synthetic turf.
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