Noble and Greenough School’s (Noble) Shaw Sports Turf field in Dedham, Mass. received a Distinguished Field Facility award from the American Sports Builders Association (ASBA), the national organization for builders and suppliers of materials for athletic facilities. The award is given to its members who model construction excellence. It was presented to Stantec Sport in Boston for the upgrade of... read more
Kiefer USA and UBU Sports will transform Olivet Nazarene University’s football and soccer stadium in Bourbonnais, Ill. Ward field is also the summer training camp for the Chicago Bears. The UBU Sports Speed S5-M synthetic turf system will be installed by Kiefer USA. The ONU Tigers are members of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Division I and compete... read more
AstroTurf is resurfacing Oklahoma State University’s football stadium, Boone Pickens Stadium, a year after installing two AstroTurf 3D Xtreme practice fields at the Sherman E. Smith Training Center. Installation of the new 76,000 square foot AstroTurf field is scheduled to begin on May 12. The new field at Boone Pickens will be AstroTurf’s 3D Decade product, named “decade” due to its 10-year warranty.... read more
Over the last eight years, synthetic turf manufacturer and FIFA preferred producer Act Global has installed 100 FIFA Certified pitches to six continents. The company certified its 100th pitch in early 2014 at Kuala Lumpur Football Association in Malaysia, the same year the business celebrated its 10th anniversary. Certified pitches are based on the FIFA Quality Concept for Football Turf, which provides guidelines for artificial turf.... read more
AMVAC Chemical Corp., a subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., became the sole distributor of the granular soil fumigant product Basamid G. Basamid G is labeled for use on golf courses, athletic fields, sod farms, home lawns, ornamental sites, field nurseries, turf sites, greenhouses, hoop houses, soil media, interplanting and nonbearing crops. “By becoming the exclusive distributor of Basamid G, AMVAC... read more
