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Sports Labs Hosts World Rugby’s Technical Meeting

Recently, Sports Labs took the lead in hosting World Rugby’s Technical Meeting, providing Accredited Test Institutes and Preferred Turf Producers with a platform to discuss potential updates to Regulation 22, the Rugby Turf Performance Specification. A key proposal on the table is the adoption of a new test method designed to evaluate skin injury risk on playing surfaces.

Hockey’s Move To Dry Turf Surfaces

With water becoming an ever-scarcer resource that needs to be used responsibly the FIH recognised that today most approved hockey turfs are designed to use 1 l/m2 each time a field is watered – this equates to 6000 Litres per 10-minute cycle.
To move hockey onto a more sustainable footing the FIH announced their next steps;

How Artificial Turf Systems are being Developed to Meet Environmental

Presentation by Eric O’Donnell – Managing Director of Sports Labs Download

Changing the Narrative Presented at the 2024 ESTC Congress in Portugal

Presented at the 2024 ESTC Congress in Porto, Portugal Presentation by Eric O’Donnell – Managing Director of Sports Labs Download

SAPCA Award Nominated Project

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Sustainability and the Industry

Legislation, environmental concerns, and sustainability are driving change, but more importantly stimulating innovation in the artificial turf sector. It is a fact that whilst we do need to embrace environmental concerns the industry has had options which are sustainable for many years.