Sports Turf Managers Association (STMA) named its 2016 “Field of the Year Award” winners. Since 1992, STMA’s Field of the Year Award is presented to members who manage baseball, football, soccer, softball and other sporting playing surfaces at the professional, collegiate, schools (K-12) and parks and recreation level. The 2016 winners are listed below: Professional Baseball Smokies Stadium at Tennessee... read more
GT AirInject, Inc., developers of the Air2G2 and Air2HP aerifier machines, recently launched a newly redesigned website to reflect the needs of its growing, worldwide customer base. The website is a resource for industry professionals that is designed to connect customers with distributors. It also showcases the research that has gone into developing these state-of-the-art machines that increase drainage and... read more
Georgian College of Barrie, Ontario, Canada, has hired Worldwide Turf Canada to install the first FIFA certified field by a Sportsturf dealer. School administrators worked with Worldwide Turf Canada representatives to select Duration 50 paired with a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) infill and laid over a Thermagreen pad. This combination was chosen due to the outstanding performance it would provide to... read more
Registration for the Sport Turf Manager Association’s 2017 Conference is now open. The event will take place Jan. 24-27 at Disney’s Coronado Springs Hotel. Earn up to 1.5 CEUs through STMA at the 2017 event. In addition to STMA, the following professional organizations have agreed to provide CEUs for attending education sessions at the conference: American Sports Builders Association (ASBA)... read more
The Toro Company has acquire Regnerbau Calw GmbH, a privately held manufacturer of professional irrigation equipment. The transaction is currently is expected to close during Toro’s fiscal 2017 first quarter. Headquartered in Althengstett, Germany, and founded in 1925, Regnerbau Calw GmbH manufactures a variety of irrigation products under the Perrot brand including retractable sprinklers for sports fields, impact sprinklers and... read more
