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 Colney training ground, and the Football Associations St George’s Park.
The visit to these two exemplary facilities came after a visit to Saltex 2017 at the NEC, Birmingham. This gave the three representatives from Toyo Green, and groundsmen from Kobe Stadium and Osaka Gamba FC the opportunity to view the technology on offer to UK groundsmen before seeing how it is put into practice.
Campey has always placed a great emphasis on education and sharing knowledge, and are privileged to be able to call upon such world-renowned venues to demonstrate the high level of turf knowledge in this region.
The first site visit was at St George’s Park, where head groundsman, Scott Brooks, gave a tour of the facility and discussed the maintenance programmes used on the sites increasingly popular SIS-Grass pitches, as well as the other hybrid surfaces.
This was followed by a masterclass in the renovation and maintenance of Desso and Air-Fibre pitches from Steve Bradock, head groundsman of the pristine London Colney site. This was a great opportunity for the visitors to learn how surface specific programmes are planned and executed, and the importance of tailoring pitch maintenance programmes.
Following the thorough presentation, the visitors were given an extensive tour of the facilities, giving further understanding of how everything comes together at Arsenal’s training ground to make it an all-round world class destination.
