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by Shelby Becker
As the main international airport servicing Spain and the largest airport in Europe, Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD) handled over 53 million passengers and had over 387,000 aircraft movements throughout 2017. With the high volume of people and aircrafts traveling in and out of the airport each day, it is vital that MAD operates efficiently to prevent closures and delays of runways and taxiways. These can be caused by many factors, but typical methods of outdoor operations to control for erosion, FOD, wildlife mitigation, and visual enhancement are not cost effective and require consistent maintenance that can often result in shutdowns.
In 2009 Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport elected to transform its runway and taxiways with the addition of artificial grass from AvTurf. Tested and approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), AvTurf is a trusted surfacing solution with proven technology to withstand impact from jet blasts and enhance drainage of runoff water. The synthetic turf system also remains vivid throughout the year, regardless of the weather, to vastly improve visual recognition.
AvTurf has served Madrid–Barajas to advance the airport’s safety and operational effectiveness.
Due to AvTurf’s reputation as a premier safety surface for aviation, and its ability to demonstrate such assertion, it has been successfully installed across the globe in some of the largest and busiest airports.
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Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Sportpark Oranje is a local Netherlands football facility that hosts gameplay for several teams in the area. Of these, VV Oranje Nassau Roden (ONR) comprises 5 senior teams, 14 youth teams, and 3 G-teams that utilize the fields of Sportpark Oranje. From these teams, a lasting culture of sportsmanship and love for the game has been created at the park. Each player who competes at Sportpark Oranje is driven by the pursuit to develop their own skills, as well as the skills of their peers, and continue to progress the growth of competition in their community.
Our partner, Hofmeier, ensuring Sportpark Oranje’s new field is installed perfectly.
To continue to support the high level of play at the facility, Sportpark Oranje upgraded to an artificial grass pitch manufactured by Act Global. The park selected a sand-dressed synthetic turf system with proven performance to aid in natural football playing characteristics and accommodate the varying needs of players that differ in age and skill level.
This project was possible through the work of our international partner, Hofmeier. The team is dedicated to providing world-class fields with superior installation and customer service.
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Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
In the 95 years since its founding, V.V. Holten has grown from humble beginnings of establishment within the bakery of the Wansink brothers to a 730-member association of dedicated amateur football players. The Netherlands-based club offers teams for boys and girls ranging in age from youth to senior. The first team of the club competes in the Fourth Class within Dutch Amateur Football.
The club’s competition complex, Sportpark Meermanskamp, was upgraded this month to a professional-quality artificial grass surface manufactured by Act Global. The synthetic turf system allows for elite-level play so that the athletes of this amateur club can continue to advance their skills while growing their love for the game. Combining the technology of Xtreme Turf with recycled EPDM infill, V.V. Holten can now host practices and competitions on an unmatched football field for safety, durability, aesthetics, and environmental integrity.
This project was possible through the work of our international partner, Sallandse United. The knowledge and experience of the team continue to result in excellent work and expert installation of Act Global synthetic turf.
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Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) is one of the most trafficked airports in the United States with a yearly passenger count exceeding 21 million. The highly-utilized facility features multiple infield islands, so in 2015 HNL updated 63,000 square feet of these areas to AvTurf’s artificial grass system to expand the usage capabilities of its infrastructure.
The use of AvTurf for infield islands helps to create a sterile and static environment by reducing standing water and eliminating airfield contaminants through the filtrating sand infill system. The consistently low pile height allows for easy recognition and cleanup of potential foreign object debris (F.O.D.) and removes shelter for prey based species. The non-fading synthetic turf fibers offer supreme visibility for pilots to quickly distinguish between paved and non-paved areas.
AvTurf combats common threats in airport safety with a durable, attractive, and cost-effective synthetic turf solution that requires minimal year-round maintenance. The performance of AvTurf’s artificial grass has been proven through hundreds of quality assurance tests, each that reiterate the fact that AvTurf achieves the highest performance standards of airport ground safety in all critical areas.
Due to AvTurf’s reputation as a premier safety surface for aviation, and its ability to demonstrate such assertion, it has been successfully installed across the globe to eliminate specific hazards in some of the largest and busiest airports.
For more information on AvTurf.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
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by Shelby Becker
Mt. San Jacinto College (MSJC) is a community of five locations within Riverside County, California. Each member of the student body, totaling over 16,200, has the opportunity to enrich their studies with an array of extracurricular activities, including 10 sports programs. The local college is currently working to continue to grow the program to expand access to higher levels of competition for young athletes by providing elite-level facilities.
In 2017 the MSJC Eagles added a world-class synthetic turf system as part of a permanent facility for multiple sports teams. This multi-sport field is made with the exceptionally strong, safe, and durable artificial grass technology from Act Global that is backed with over 100 laboratory tests to ensure the turf is at the forefront of safety and performance.
This installation was completed by our by our California partner, KYA. The KYA Active line is committed to providing the highest-caliber of quality, superior service, and incomparable support with every Xtreme Turf field.
Interested in contacting KYA for a professional synthetic turf field?
Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes.
Be sure to keep up to date on all of our turf projects and more by following us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
Shelby Becker is a creative content creator and marketing specialist at Act Global. She’s an animal rights activist, avid concert-goer, and scary movie enthusiast. Follow her on LinkedIn .
For more information, contact marketing at sbecker@actglobal.com
