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INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY: The High-Performance Polyurethane Backing

Lano Sports has always been at the forefront of technology, bringing superior and innovative products to the market. This time, in combination with DOW, we have become the first European synthetic turf manufacturer to apply a high-performance polyurethane backing to its sports turf products.

Polyurethane brings additional subtle benefits such as longer term surface playing characteristics, an increase in player safety and extended comfort underfoot. It is in fact the ideal solution for applications where performance and durability are important. One of PU’s main advantages over latex is that it dramatically increases the fibrelock, and in doing so, it improves the product’s overall performance.

Polyurethane not only contributes to safer, more comfortable and more durable products, it also offers several ecological advantages, making it a product well adapted for the 21st century.

Synthetic turf advantages:

- Stable, uniform playing field
- Improved durability
- Appearance retention
- Longer life expectancy
- More flexible and thus easier to install
- Superior dimensional stability
- Superior individual filament fibrelock, even when wet

Ecological advantages:

- No water used in manufacture or clean-up process
- No anti-microbial or anti-fungal additives needed
- Up to 90% less energy consumption per m² than with latex
- Up to 30% less raw materials consumption
- PU backing is fully cured, solid and chemically stable and inert
- No VOC (volatile organic components) or other emission issues