Infield will be artificial turf Vernon Hills High to be first in suburbs...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  June 25, 2008 ;     299 words ......Starting next season, the Vernon Hills High School varsity baseball...to play home games on artificial turf. The Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District...the entire field with artificial turf would be too expensive...in the state with an artificial ...

HIGH PRICE OF ARTIFICIAL TURF

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  September 24, 1999 ;     562 words ......County, NJ) 09-24-1999 HIGH PRICE OF ARTIFICIAL TURF -- IT'S TIME TO TAKE HEED OF WHAT...Star P, One Star B SPEAKING about artificial turf, Jets linebacker Chad Cascadden once...been lost to non-contact injuries on artificial turf is frightening and should prompt more...

Markets For Textile-Based Artificial Turf - Fieldturf Tarkett Is a Leading...

M2 Presswire;  October 20, 2008 ;     664 words ......Markets: Markets For Textile-Based Artificial Turf - Fieldturf Tarkett Is a Leading...of the Markets for Textile-Based Artificial Turf report to their offering. The market for artificial turf amounted to about 600,000 tons in...

Stay on the grass: for something so simple--a combination of grass and...

Chemistry and Industry;  October 13, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Houston Astrodome in Texas, US, in 1966, artificial turf pitches were adopted by a number of...numerous disadvantages meant that artificial turf pitches gradually fell from favour...turf. Since the mid-1990s, however, artificial turf has had something of a renaissance...

ARTIFICIAL TURF EYED FOR SCHOOL FIELDS BURROUGHS, BURBANK HIGHS ARE...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  January 28, 2004 ;     570 words ......grass may be greener on a new kind of artificial turf. Memorial Field, next to John Burroughs...if it replaces natural grass with artificial turf, said Ali Kiafar, chief facilities...development superintendent. Installing artificial turf on the fields would cost about $1...

Artificial turf takes root

The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  May 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-23-2005 Artificial turf takes root -- Schools, towns pay millions...nation are trading in their sod for artificial turf, saying it is far more durable, easier...in Dalton, Ga., estimates that 800 artificial turf fields will be installed in the United...

Scottish Premier League moves to ban artificial turf

AP Worldstream;  March 10, 2005 ;     236 words ......taken the first step toward banning artificial turf. The SPL on Thursday gave the five-pers...board, which includes opponents of artificial turf, power to review playing surfaces...is the only SPL team that plays on artificial turf. Celtic manager Martin O'Neill and...

NFL players believe the grass is greener Injuries mount, but league says...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  September 19, 1999 ;     604 words ......playing in an exhibition game on the artificial turf of Giants Stadium. Gaines, a regional...League Players Association, blames artificial turf. The injuries have devastated the...non-contact injuries that occur on artificial turf, it's no contest. It's probably two...

GROUP WORKING TO BRING ARTIFICIAL TURF TO LIGHTED HIGH SCHOOL FIELD

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  April 20, 2006 ;     630 words ......hoping to have those lights shine on artificial turf. The School Board on April 11 gave...Ott said. KidsTurf believes that artificial turf of the 21st century is an idea whose...Not only has the new generation of artificial turf been found to be generally safer and...

SOC: FIFA gives backing to artificial turf

AAP Sports News (Australia);  February 9, 2000 ;     222 words ......02-09-2000 SOC: FIFA gives backing to artificial turf ZURICH, Feb 8 Reuters - Artificial turf can be used for official international...national soccer association allowing artificial turf to be installed at a Monrovia stadium...

FIFA says under-17 final will be on artificial turf

AP Worldstream;  May 8, 2003 ;     186 words ......World Championship will be played on artificial turf _ a first in international soccer...matches have already been played on artificial turf, including Caribbean qualifiers for...has set up a licensing program for artificial turf in direct response to an ever-increasing...

VOTERS SPLIT ON M-E PROJECTS; UPGRADES OK'D FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT'S...

The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  December 20, 2006 ;     291 words ......buildings, but rejected a proposal for an artificial turf field. The $9.2million proposition...s second proposal, which included artificial turf, falls in line behind neighboring...renovations but rejected installing an artificial turf field. Last week, voters overwhelmingly...

Artificial turf field proposed at Portage

Post-Tribune (IN);  January 22, 2004 ;     510 words ......proposal Wednesday that could bring artificial turf to the high school football field...Cost-effectiveness and the durability of the artificial turf were two key selling points for Director...has researched the pros and cons of artificial turf, first coming upon it during a trip...

Teams Calling for Grass to Replace Artificial Turf

NPR Morning Edition;  September 13, 1995 ;     591 words ......00-0000 People once believed that artificial turf was better than grass, created no...natural grass. BOB EDWARDS, Host: Artificial turf was introduced to pro football in...flew too close to the sun was with artificial turf. Oh, what a wonderful invention that...

Seymour board opens bids for artificial turf

New Haven Register;  February 21, 2007 ;     426 words ......kicking the soccer ball around on artificial turf, if a proposal to replace the traditional...the commission has been researching artificial turf for more than a year, and with the...s an intelligent decision." While artificial turf is a more expensive alternative in...