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CASE STUDY 2
TigerTurf / McArdle
St George’s College Project
TigerTurf and McArdle complete St George’s College project
St George’s College is an independent school in Weybridge, Surrey. Alongside partners, SAPCA members McArdle Sport Tec and TigerTurf UK have created a bespoke hockey field to support the school’s huge sporting provision.
The school already had one hockey
field, installed in 2018. In 2021, however,
it decided to refurbish its second field using TigerTurf’s Evo Pro, a synthetic turf product which takes its DNA from the very successful WETT Pro hockey turf product.
While Evo Pro is considered exceptional for hockey, its versatility means it can be used for a variety of sports, such as tennis, futsal, touch rugby, and athletics, as well
as being soft enough for recreational football. For the St George’s College project, TigerTurf created a bespoke maroon yarn colour for the hockey field’s run-offs, in order to match the schools’ colours.
This was complimented with a bespoke logo mat of the school’s emblem.
“The school has been delighted with its brand new, personalised hockey field that enables it to continue providing
a high standard of sporting facilities
for its students,” TigerTurf said.
comes in eight different colours. “JUTA, together with the Swedish
company World Wide Padel, is successfully penetrating the market in the UK,” says Jan Bělina, JUTA’s Commercial Director. “We have several courts currently under construction in central London and we’re working on the next ones all over England.”
TigerTurf created a bespoke maroon yarn colour to match the pitch with the school’s unique colours
CASE STUDY 3
Juta
London
Padel - the next big thing
Padel is the world’s fastest growing racket sport. Invented in Mexico in 1969, Padel combines elements of tennis, squash
and badminton and can be played both indoors and outdoors. It is popular across the Mediterranean, especially in Spain, and also has plenty of admirers in South America, particularly in Argentina.
The sport is played on synthetic playing surfaces and one of the companies providing padel court surfaces is SAPCA member JUTA. One of the company’s recent installations is in London.
A special turf product, JUTAgrass PADEL MFT 12, has been developed to meet
the padel surface criteria and features strongly texturised yarn with a pile height of 12mm and 8 kg/m2 silica sand. It also
Padel is growing in popularity across the UK
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