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In 2017, Kenda expanded into Europe with its acquisition of Starco Europe A/S, a Danish supplier of wheels with $129.4 million in sales in 2017. [4] Kenda is a sponsor of the Giant Asia Racing Team, a UCI Continental cycling team, and a national sponsor to National Multiple Sclerosis Society's MS 150. [5]
AstroTurf is an American subsidiary of SportGroup that produces artificial turf for playing surfaces in sports. The original AstroTurf product was a short-pile synthetic turf invented in 1965 by Monsanto. [2] Since the early 2000s, AstroTurf has marketed taller pile systems that use infill materials to better replicate natural turf. [3]
A team of UEFA, FIFA and German company Polytan conducted tests in the Stadion Salzburg Wals-Siezenheim in Salzburg, Austria which had matches played on it in UEFA Euro 2008. It is the second FIFA 2 Star approved artificial turf in a European domestic top flight, after Dutch club Heracles Almelo received the FIFA certificate in August 2005. [20]
The Dundalk F.C. Stadium, Oriel Park, received FieldTurf's first FIFA 2-star rating. FieldTurf has 29 FIFA-recommended 1-Star installations and 31 FIFA Recommended 2-Star installations as of 2009. [15] [16] In 2007, the FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada had almost 50% of its games played on FieldTurf. [17]
Essentially the existing turf is removed to a depth of typically 40 mm turf and 110 mm of soil. The replacement turf is ideally purpose grown to ensure consistency and freedom from weeds. A pitch can usually be returfed within four days and would typically involve removing and relaying 400 cubic metres of turf and soil.
The 2024 Spikers' Turf season was the seventh season of the men's volleyball league Spikers' Turf, the counterpart of the women's Premier Volleyball League (formerly called Shakey's V-League). The seventh season started on March 13, 2024, with the launch of the 2024 Spikers' Turf Open Conference , [ 1 ] and ended on December 15, 2024 with the ...
[5] This origin legend also defines some of the relationships of the ethnic groups that make up the Mijikenda peoples, for example one version of the oral tradition states that the Digo were the first to leave Singwaya and thus are accepted as the other groups as senior, then the Ribe left, followed by the Giriama, the Chonyi, and the Jibana. [5]
Joseph Patrick Kenda (born November 14, 1946) [2] [3] is a retired Colorado Springs Police Department detective lieutenant who was involved in 387 homicide cases over a 23-year career. He solved 356 cases, a closure rate of 92%. [ 4 ]