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British Sports Surfaces Manufacturer Celebrates Record Year
• UK-based sports manufacturer SIS Pitches celebrated a record year
• Key announcements include a headcount growth by 20% since January and the opening of four new global offices • Other successes include featuring at the Paris Olympics and installing the first-ever hybrid cricket pitch in India
The UK’s leading sports manufacturer, SIS Pitches, announced 2024 as its best-performing year to date.
In addition to investing £500,000 in its Maryport factory for new tufting machines and solar panels, and growing its overall employee headcount by 20% since January, SIS Pitches has opened four new offices
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Other major projects won by SIS Pitches this year include names football fans around the world will recognise immediately, including Manchester City Football Club, Chicago Fire and Mandela National Stadium, in Uganda. The company also made significant
forays into other sports globally. These are located in
Poland, India, Saudi Arabia and Georgia, in order to meet rising demand locally.
Earlier this year, one of SIS Pitches’ major pitch maintenance projects in the Middle East, the Kingdom Arena, in Riyadh, built in partnership with Sela, won two Guinness World Records for the largest covered football stadium and the highest capacity for an indoor covered stadium. The stadium itself was the first ever indoor grass pitch grown entirely without natural sunlight.
In India, the SIS Pitches team installed the country’s first hybrid cricket pitch – a SIS Grass Hybrid product tried and tested across the English game – marking the beginning of a series of projects in the country. The manufacturer, working with Greater Ten locally, used its own ‘Universal’ machine to stitch hybrid cricket pitches in locations including the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association (HPCA) Stadium in Dharamshala.
28 FSM internationally, securing
projects with Baseball United to build the first professional baseball ballpark in the Middle East and South Asia, as well as Aramco Stadium in Saudi Arabia.
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