Italgreen SpA & GEOFILL

Villa d’Adda - Bergamo - Italycompany presentation 2012

Synthetic Grass grows here

Company profile

Manufacturing process

Italgreen products

The power of Geofill

Product for Geofill

INDEX

Company profile

Italgreen S.p.a.: 30 years experience in synthetic turf business “made in Italy”

Our first production plant where in 1983 the first synthetic turf capret has been tufted

Company profile

Italgreen has been the first company to develop synthetic turf, from the first five a side football pitches, with excellent results

Built by our general managers, Maurizio Gilardi and Sergio Pennati, purchasing the first tufting machine

in 1983

technological processCompany profile

Synthetic turf was born here, during our technolo-gical process controlled in every production phase.

From extrusion of the yarn to manufacturing of the turf Italgreen S.p.a. is the sole worldwide company completely independent in every production phase.

technological processCompany profile

Extrusion of the yarn to trasform polyethylene granules to yarn, ready for tufting

Twisting consisting of coupling two or more yarns made of different materials

Tufting of the yarn on primary backing and cutting in proper dimensions

Hot coating of the yarn on primary backing

Rolling up the rolls for better trasport and easier installation

Product range 2012

Italgreen always designs and develops new sy-stems and solution: thanks to its high quality phi-

losophy the company always works hardly to make high standards for the main sports practice.

Green 2000

the historical multisport Italgreen range

the footbal veteran range

new “Z” monofilament 100% Italgreen

Stadium

Monoturf Z

Product range

Tennis, hockey, rugby even if football absolutely represents the core business of the company

During the years Italgreen developed technical skills allowing to reach top quality synthetic turf systems as high elastic

memory, tricolor and double yarn turf.

Lesmo

hundred thousand yarns in perfect shape

too much nice to seem natural

the evolution of the species

the first root synthetic turf

X-Tender

Evolution

Double T

Italgreen costantly increases its product range and quality as the new turf brand EVO

Product range

Product range

Infill product

Italgreen S.p.a. has been focused on longterm R&D activity for more than 30 years; that’s allowed Italgreen

to be the first worldwide company, introducing on the market 100% organic infill, Geofill®.

Labosport Italia S.r.l www.labosport.it

Via Monza, 80 – 23870 CERNUSCO LOMBARDONE (LC) labosport@labosport.itTel. +39 039 894.62.15 – Fax +39 039 968.51.68

11-0260IT Emesso il 19 dicembre 2011

C L I E N T E

Italgreen S.p.A. D E N O M I N A Z I O N E P R O D O T T O

GEOFILL V C A T E G O R I A

INTASO PRESTAZIONALE TOTALMENTE VEGETALE

C O N F O R M I T Á A I R E Q U I S I T I

CONFORME

Test in accordo a :

Attestazione Intaso Prestazionale Totalmente Vegetale F.I.G.C – L.N.D. Regolamento edizione 2011

Q u e s t o c e r t i f i c a t o n o n è u n c e r t i f i c a t o f o r m a l e d e l l a F . I . G . C . – L . N . D . e n o n c o n f e r m a o i m p l i c a i n a l c u n m o d o l ’ a t t e s t a z i o n e F . I . G . C . – L . N . D . d e l p r o d o t t o

L a r i p r o d u z i o n e d i q u e s t o r a p p o r t o d i p r o v a è a u t o r i z z a t a e s c l u s i v a m e n t e n e l l a

s u a f o r m a i n t e g r a l e

I r i s u l t a t i s i i n t e n d o n o v a l i d i e s c l u s i v a m e n t e p e r i l c a m p i o n e s o t t o p o s t o a p r o v a

Infill product

Environment

100% organic, ecofriendly and recyclable

no bad smell and not toxic

non abrasive, fresh and player friendly

Performance

Quality of the game

Infill product

Infill product

GEOFILL® is the ecological alternative to common rubber infill systems.GEOFILL® qualities improve synthetic grass carpet perfomance. Organic granules among synthetic fibres: a perfect combination.

GEOFILL®: the natural choice

Thanks to a revolutionary discovery, GEOFILL® is the first natural infill for synthetic grass carpets:

organic granules made mostly or totally of vegetal fibres and minerals.

GEOFILL® is registered patent officially and exclusively owned by Italgreen S.p.A. and also for QueenGarden brand

INTERNATIONAL PATENT PENDINGWO 2007/010324 A1 - US 2008/0299331 A1

Composition and applications of GEOFILL® as performanceinfill for synthetic turf system are protected

by industrial patent MI2005A001403

Infill product

environment 100% organic, eco friendly e recyclable

performance odorless and nontoxic

play

Geofill N

Nobilitato

Geofill VVegetale

Geofill T

Termoplastico

abrasion, fresh and player-friendly

Infill product

Leonardo

what makes difference

drainage system shockpad

inserisci logo Air 12 che è nome di Alveo di Trocellen sessiciui

Yarn

PerformanceInfill

StabilisationInfill

Primary backing

Coating

Yarn: 62 Lesmo

PerformanceInfill: Geofill R

Drainaige System:Leonardo R

Leonardo

Lesmo

hundred thousand yarns in perfect shape

Lesmo tricolor line two curves that providing energy

Lesmo line turfs are manufactured with unique bla-de geometry: an “S”, which enlivens the blade and

the “double curves” make it lifelike, ready to spring back after every step.

Lesmo line turfs preserve an age-old secret: stay in good shape to last a long time

Thanks to its extraordinary skills Lesmo can recover the perfect shape immediately after the game.

A double curve backbone to be always in a perfect shape

Nine ends yarn

Three different green tonalities for a more natural look

Thickness: over 200 microns

More resistant, for a long-lasting usage

Made of 100% PE polymers

PE wrapping yarn

Easier to be filled

Worldwide exclusive model

Lesmo tricolor line

Lesmo

hundred thousand yarns in perfect shape

Silvio Piola stadium, NovaraItalgreen has been the first company in the world to have installed synthetic

turf system between italian Serie A and Serie B professional:Novara stadium, August 2010.

Sport Lab Report

Certified Recycling of Milan’s Polytechnic[Type text]

LABORATORY PERFORMANCE REPORT

on

62 LESMO GEOFILL LEONARDO

in accordance with

Handbook of Test Methods for Football Turf

For

Italgreen Spa Via Crusnigo

11 - 24030 Villa d'Adda (BG) Italy

REPORT STATUS: FinalSignature Date

Report No: 12718/2372

Prepared By S Ramsay 29/09/09

Checked By R Nixon 29/09/09

FOREWORD

1. This report has been prepared by Sports Labs limited with all reasonable skill, care and diligence within the terms of the contract with the Client and within the limitations of the resources devoted to it.

2. This report is confidential to the Client and Sports Labs Limited accepts no responsibility whatsoever to third parties to whom this report, or any part thereof, is made known. Any such party relies upon the report at their own risk.

3. This report shall not be used for engineering or contractual purposes unless signed by the Author and the Checker and unless the report status is “Final”.

4. This report is not an official FIFA laboratory test report and does not imply FIFA approval

Silvio Piola stadium, Novara

Silvio Piola stadium, Novara

Double T line

Double T

too much nice to seem natural

Double turf, unique technology!

Monofilament can be customized, on Italgreen mo-nofilament range basis: it means that you can get

your Double T, mixing Double T technology with performances of our monofilament portfolio

Rugby 7 World cup at university level has been pla-yed on Double T Geofill®, in 2010 – Bessa Stadium.

60 mm monofilament turf, for the best surface soft-ness and performance; for the athlete, for the game!

Double T lineHigher density, 16.000 stitches

Double tufting

Two different green tonalities for a more natural look

Thickness: over 200 microns

Smooth and fine touch for playing surface

Easier and faster infill placement

Italgreen patented technologyl

Double T

the synthetic grass with roots

Evolution line

8.400 stitches per sqm

Thickness: over 200 microns

Two colours for a more natural look

Jacketed wire for better texture

Double woven backing, also eco-friendly

Easier infill placement

U form for better elastic memory return

Diffetent kind of coating, also in polyethylene recyclable

Evolution

the evolution of the species

X Tender Pro line

X Tender Pro

too much nice to seem natural

“S” shape spine monofilament

Thickness: over 370 microns

Two colours for a more natural look

Double jacketed wire for better texture and aesthetic

Double woven backing, in polypropylene

Coating with termoplastic recyclable material

High resilient system fibers

Top World references VIP

Al-Salam Stadium – Cairo – Egypt (2009), hosting world cup under 20

Bessa Stadium – Oporto – Portugal (2009), hosting Boavista FC home matches

Stadio Silvio Piola – Novara – Italy (2010), the first main stadium for professio-nals in Italian SERIE A

Copiapò Stadium – Chile – (2011)

Stadio Picco – La Spezia – Italy (2011)

Banik Ostrawa – Chzech Republik – (2011)

Thank you for attention

Contacts

make the center with Italgreen’ turf

nicola.ravelli@italgreen.itexport@italgreen.it

www.italgreen.it

Synthetic Grass grows here