Rekortan BS and LigaTurf RS+ in Ammanford, UK

Professional surfaces for beginners and top athletes in Wales

The town of Ammanford, consisting of only 5,500 residents, is located in south-west Wales and is known as the venue for the National Eisteddfod, the biggest music and poetry festival in Europe. As well as cricket, the most popular sports are rugby and football; Ammanford has produced multiple national players in both disciplines. The Rugby Union team Ammanford RFC was founded in 1887 and is active in the Welsh Rugby Union leagues.

Its home games and training sessions are held at a facility in the direct vicinity of the Ammanford Leisure Centre. It is also used by around 1,400 students at Ysgol Dyffryn Aman secondary school. In the autumn of 2023, we fitted the playing field there with our LigaTurf RS+. Different line patterns in white and yellow allow it to be used for either football or rugby.

Engineered to withstand intensive use, LigaTurf RS+ is part of our elite synthetic turf range, developed specifically for football and rugby. Its rhombus-shaped, extra-thick fibres combined with advanced Polytan ENTANGLEMENT Technology ensure outstanding durability, superior shock absorption, and consistent ball roll and bounce characteristics. The fibre structure is designed to return to an upright position after use, making the surface particularly resilient and long-lasting — ideal for a high-traffic facility such as Ammanford.

Additionally, the system incorporates SharkSkin technology, an innovation that significantly reduces skin abrasion — a particularly valuable benefit for rugby players, where frequent physical contact with the surface is common.

The playing field is rounded off by a running track in brick red with six lanes and an integrated sprinting track. In the course of the renovations, we fitted the athletics track with our Rekortan BS surface: Polytan’s all-rounder for competition and training facilities. This structural spray-coated surface is an extremely economical solution for athletics.

In total, Ammanford invested 2 million pounds in the construction of the new facility. This investment is of major significance for the development of the town’s concept, “Sport for everyone”, which will promote a wide variety of sports – for everyone from beginners to top athletes.

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