International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

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As the most popular sport in Poland, soccer is both a fan-favorite and one of the most common forms of regular activity. The soccer community is comprised of hundreds of professional and amateur teams and even more recreational leagues within individual communities.

Currently, this Southeast Polish community is upgrading one of its municipal parks to support the city’s love of football for years to come. By surfacing the pitch with Act Global synthetic turf, the city can be confident that this field will serve as a safe and durable asset for years to come. Not only does the professional-quality sports field look picturesque in the city’s landscape, but it is also built with exceptional research and development to perform optimally for athletes.

We can’t wait to reveal final field photos and details of how this field is positively impacting the community.

International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

Act Global and USL Continue to Challenge the Standard For Soccer

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Last year, Act Global and USL joined together in a partnership to revolutionize the synthetic turf fields used for soccer. As the Official Synthetic Turf supplier for all league properties, Act Global is the #1 trusted athletic surface within professional and developmental soccer. The hundreds of teams that make up the USL, USL D3, PDL, and the Super Y Leagues deserve a pitch they can trust to support their safety and performance. With Act Global artificial grass, athletes and coaches can be confident that their sports field emulates natural ball roll, reinforces proper traction, and discourages excessive twists/turns of the joints. This is backed by extensive testing measures that assure our turf meets strict international standards of safety and performance set by the FIFA initiative. This standard benchmarks facilities around the world to regulate the quality of sports fields that athletes play on.

We are thrilled to continue to work with the USL organization on this ongoing effort.

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International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

Facility Feature: Kennesaw Mountain High School

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Kennesaw Mountain High School is a high-performance secondary school within the rapidly growing Cobb county. Since its founding in 2000, the math and science-focused magnet school has helped develop lifelong learners that are successful at the college level. Not only has Kennesaw Mountain facilitated the advancement of students on the academic level, but the athletic level as well. Each year KMHS student-athletes, in particular, football players, are offered scholarships to continue their athletic development and academic studies at the college level.

In 2010 after seeing the success of the team and as a community and wanting to invest in the future of their students, Kennesaw Mountain High School resurfaced its athletic stadium with professional-quality synthetic turf from Act Global. The field now boldly displays the school’s signature colors with contrasting gray and black. Aside from the brilliant aesthetics of the field, the artificial grass offers safety features and performance benefits. By combining years of research and development alongside extensive testing procedures, Act Global was able to deliver scientifically-superior sports surface that acts like natural grass but lasts for years with minimal maintenance necessary.

This past Friday the Mustangs won at home in overtime against the North Forsyth Raiders.

Good luck to the Mustangs on the rest of the 2018 season!

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International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

The Countdown: Homeless World Cup 2018

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Today marks 60 days out from one of our favorite events of the year. The Homeless World Cup is the culmination of a year’s work to positively impact those affected by homelessness and to help change the perception of these individuals. The Homeless World Cup Foundation uses football as a mutual human connection to bring homeless people out of isolation and challenge them to share and communicate with others. By charging them with the responsibility to be active participants in something larger than themselves, these individuals have the opportunity to feel empowered over their own lives again.

This year marks the 16th edition of the annual tournament and is expected to be one of the largest to date. As the tournament continues to grow and impact more lives across the world, Act Global is honored to continue to be involved in the tournament. The 2018 event in Mexico will be our 4th year as the synthetic turf sponsor. Each of us at Act Global is humbled each year by the lasting effects of the tournament and we are sure that this year will be no different.

Thank you, Homeless World Cup Foundation for continuing to push for social change throughout the world.

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International Installation Play-by-Play: Poland

Turf Term: Durability

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Many artificial grass systems claim to be long-lasting and durable, but what does this mean? How is durability measured when a synthetic turf field is meant to last close to a decade and used by a large variance of sports teams and exposed to different climatic conditions?

Act Global’s Xtreme Turf systems were developed based on years of research and development, a thorough benchmarking process against top natural grass fields, and a continuous drive to improve player safety and comfort. These factors have led us to engineer sport-specific turf systems that are proven to be durable through 100+ laboratory tests related to fiber breakdown, tensile strength, and color stability. For Act Global, durability means delivering a field that looks and performs as close to day 1 in year 8 as possible. By testing our turf with up to 130,000 Lisport cycles for both our monofilament and fibrillated yarns and exposing our fibers to 3,000 hours of UVA testing, we can confirm that our artificial grass can withstand extremely heavy use and intense climatic conditions. Our lineup of colors is vibrant for a beautiful field and certified to last by exceeding stringent international industry standards.

By putting the needs of players first, our stakeholders are the athletes, schools, and communities that utilize our fields every day. We are proud to be building better fields across the world for safer, more economical, and environmentally friendly sports facilities.

Learn how our synthetic turf is beneficial to athletes. 

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