Brock USA had a solid year on the environmental front, but we will continue to try to reduce our environmental footprint. Key measurements are the efficiency of our factory and our freight. There are three overall steps in our manufacturing – Extrusion, Molding, and the ShockPad/SERIES Product line. Overall the factory ran at 99.8% […]
Across the Atlantic in the lush green Ringsend park, the install team at Sportlabs UK, Ltd. tore up the old turf on the soccer pitch they had installed a decade ago and made a pleasant discovery. The white Brock PowerBase/GEN1 pads were in “perfect condition,” according to […]
Brain injuries in contact sports are no laughing matter, but sometimes it takes satire to bring to light the urgency for reform. The hit Comedy Central show Key & Peele just released a short where a quarterback is sacked and suffers a concussion. After his head collides with the turf he […]
Today, America’s focus is on Punxsutawney Phil to see whether we’ll endure six more grueling months of winter (we are), but his gloomy prediction isn’t the only damage he’s done. Groundhogs, gophers, and other tunneling rodents are notorious for causing chaos on sports fields. For this very reason, many grounds […]
Ginger Allen, investigative reporter at CBS/Dallas-Fort Worth, contacted Dan Sawyer, CEO at Brock USA, to help shine some light on the issues facing safety in artificial turf fields. Her team found that out of 63 North Texas high school football teams, only nine of them still played on […]
Reminiscing on the popular Nike campaign featuring Bo Jackson, you may recall the catchphrase, “Bo Knows…” Bo seemed to know everything from his professional sports, Football and Baseball, to cycling, tennis, pro wrestling, and even how to play guitar! What Bo was not privy to was the research […]
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Until now, the U.S. has been the only country in the world to use a single impact test to determine the safety and performance of an artificial turf athletic field. The development of the ASTM F355-A, commonly known as the Gmax test, dates back to the 1960’s. To address the […]
During recent NFL Games, a recipient of the NFL Head Health Challenge grant received media attention promoting the idea of a shock pad under artificial turf. With the increase in concussions being seen on head to surface impacts, it’s now a national conversation at the highest levels to improve the […]
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