Sponsors

Richard Campey detected an untapped market need, realising that there was a role for a specialist supplier of high-quality purpose built equipment that would enable turf managers to meet the increased demands placed on modern sports turf surfaces. What initially started out as business offering sports turf maintenance work within the North West of the United Kingdom, has grown to be one of the UK’s leading independent distributors, with machinery available throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and the USA.

Consolidate Turf is a family-run business focused on quality and exceptional customer service. We manufacture products at our state-of-the-art premises, enabling the company to expand and meet our client’s needs now and in the future. Consolidate Turf has a combined experience of over 100 years in the Amenity sector. Our customer portfolio runs across the UK and Europe, spanning national stadiums, world-renowned golf courses, Premier League facilities and La Liga complexes through to grass roots facilities.

Based in Derbyshire, Dennis and SISIS are divisions within the Howardson Group. In-house engineering ensures all components are manufactured to a high specification enabling us to supply world class turf maintenance equipment to groundsmen and greenkeepers around the world. Our customer base ranges from high profile sporting venues to local grass roots sports clubs, all appreciating British manufacturing at its best. The extensive product portfolio consists of pedestrian mowers, including cassette machines, dedicated mowers and the PRO 34R rotary mower launched in 2019 along with pedestrian and tractor mounted scarifiers, aerators, sweepers and slitters along with other specialised equipment for maintaining synthetic surfaces.

DLF is the world’s largest breeder, producer and distributor of grass seed. With subsidiaries in Denmark, Holland, UK, France, Germany, Czech Republic, Russia, China, New Zealand, South America, USA and Canada. Our extended distributor and customer service network serves markets worldwide, delivering well-known brands, including: Johnsons Sports Seed, Masterline and Topgreen. DLF focuses on the demands of customers as well the market trends of the professional amenity market. Offering the world’s largest turf seed research and breeding programmes, DLF works consistently to improve the quality and reliability of all varieties. To exceed market expectations, these varieties are tested through a worldwide trialling network for adaptation to different climatic and environmental conditions.

GrasPro has been built by groundsmen for groundsmen. It has been developed as a time effective tool to help speed up data collection and allow users to quickly use and analyse data from their surfaces and machines to make informed statistical decisions.

Natural Grass have developed the most advanced reinforcement technologies for football pitches. Designed to reduce the carbon footprint and the use of water while increasing athletes’ performance, those hybrid grass technologies equip the most demanding clubs across the world. By introducing state-of-the-art technologies (not only hybrid grass, but also marketing or medical technologies, all related to sports pitches), Natural Grass is at the forefront of developing cutting edge sports venues. The company is recognized for its innovative vision, sustainable commitment and forward-thinking technologies.

Based close to Dublin but operating across the UK and mainland Europe, Precision Microbes specialises in producing and supplying blends of up to 60 different beneficial micro-organisms. This is the culmination of 26 years identifying and studying their behaviour and how they interact with one another for the benefit of both the plant and the growing medium in which they live.  Having identified over 100 different beneficial microorganisms, our blends combine the most appropriate ones for each crop and growing environment.

Our unique liquid formulations have proved a great success in Spain’s La Liga, our ambition is to establish ourselves as the premier leaders in offering a diverse, organic component that provides an alternative solution for turf managers.

Turf Tank One – the world’s first and most comprehensive robot for autonomous line marking of any field and track sport. This unique robot technology ensures a much more accurate, reliable and sustainable result – every time.

With support for more than 45 different sports types and over 10.000 layout combinations, nothing is impossible.

White Horse Contractors, a Slatter Group Company, combine 60 years of natural sportsturf experience with 21st century technology to deliver the demanding sports turf standards required by today’s elite sports facilities.

Our mission is to provide the highest standards of construction and maintenance for natural turf and hybrid turf pitches. We have invested significantly in both state-of-the-art plant and equipment, that is specifically designed for natural sportsturf facilities, and in the training and development of a highly skilled and experienced workforce that is fully qualified to the required industry standards. Projects delivered by White Horse Contractors include the new hybrid stadium pitch for Wasps Rugby at the Ricoh Arena, St George’s Park for the FA, Chelsea FC’s training ground, Olympic Park London and Luton FC’s training ground to name a few.