Ribble Valley Borough Council has invested in their own Imants ShockWave to help alleviate compaction and gets games on. Chris Shepard, Head Gardener at Ribble Council has 14 sports pitches and the fields at Clitheroe Castle, a medieval construction that has been in place for 800-years, to look after as well as other non-sports [...]
Sportsfields Ltd. has added a new Koro FIELDTOPMAKER (Koro FTM) with Terraplane Rotor to their fleet as they continue to adopt the industry’s most innovative technology. Since 1991 Sportsfields has evolved from their beginnings in agriculture and landscaping to become a leading specialist in sports pitch construction and maintenance. To do this company founder, Geoff Collins, [...]
Six Vredo Compact DZ214.075 overseeders have been used in-between matches at the 2018 World Cup in Russia because of their exceptionally high germination rate. Precision is seen in a number of different ways at a World Cup, be it Neymar’s left foot in the iconic yellow of Brazil, Harry Kane’s eye for goal or [...]
Campey Turf Care Systems has assisted contractors Turf Tonics with the first in-house renovation of Wycombe Wanderers Football Club’s award-winning pitch. The Buckinghamshire club enjoyed success on two fronts on the pitch during the 2017/18 season, not only achieving automatic promotion to League One but also scooping the League Two Grounds Team of the [...]
Long-term Campey Turf Care Systems customer Bothams Prestige Sports Turf & Amenity has refined their renovations with the new and improved Koro® FTM® 2000. The Yorkshire company has been buying Campey’s products for 15 years and in that time, they have seen consistent upgrades to machines that maintain their status as the most innovative [...]
Knotty Hill Golf Centre has adopted a different way of thinking when it comes to personnel and machines, and the 2.75 meter IMANTS ShockWave fits their ethos perfectly. You’d be forgiven for thinking an army of men would be spread across the 660-acre site that offers 54-holes of golf, 27 of those being foot-golf [...]
With the advancements in turf technology and hybrid pitches the scope for improvements has been considerably narrowed, and Stoke City Football Club head groundsman, Andy Jackson, has turned to the GT Inject Air2G2 and Campey UniRake to target his marginal gains. At the top level of English football perfect playing surfaces are becoming the [...]
Croke Park find it’s Not All Yellow with Campey’s Unirake and TB220 Brush Croke Park had a usual bumper year of activity, but once the likes of Coldplay and U2 existed stage left, Campey’s UniRake and TB220 Brush were ready to clean up what music had left behind. To really get behind what Croke [...]
Andy Butler Sports Ground Specialist has been putting the first Air2G2 in the Isle of Wight to work on bowling greens, golf courses, cricket squares, football pitches and croquet lawns. Former greenkeeper, Andy Butler, knows the importance of an open root zone and has seen the difference the Air2G2 can make first hand on [...]
Campey Turf Care Systems welcomed Japanese dealer, Toyo Green, to the United Kingdom for a technical visit to learn the practices at some of football’s top venues. Campey product specialist, Dave Harrison, works across the Asia-Pacific region and took the time to showcase the excellent facilities on offer, more specifically Arsenal Football Club’s London [...]
