INFORMATION MANUAL

Founded in 1981, Limonta Sport is specialised in the production

of flooring specifically designed for sports facilities.

Our manufacturing activities offer technologies applied in full

conformity to the latest safety and quality standards, using only

certified raw materials that are compatible with environmental

protection policies.

Limonta has been present on the international artificial grass

market for several years and has recently specialised in the

production of soccer field coverings.

Our first 3 looms dedicated to sports products have increased to

a total 10 looms for producing artificial grass.

Limonta Sport also boasts a development laboratory and a

dedicated technical team who constantly monitor and seek to

improve the quality of our products in order to guarantee continual

innovations.

Our primary business objective is maximum customer satisfaction

through the quality products and service.

Our production includes diverse articles that can be used for a variety of sports: soccer, hockey, tennis,

five-a-side football, basketball, volleyball, badminton,...

Limonta Sport floorings are studied for use both indoors

and outdoors and are approved by leading international

sports federations (IHF, FIBA, IBF, FIH, ITF). Various soccer

fields constructed with third-generation artificial turf have

also been approved by the FIFA and by the FIGC-LND.

Limonta Sport is UNI EN ISO 9001:2000 quality certified.

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Limonta Sport operates both nationally and internationally. 40 % of our production is sold in Italy, while

the remaining 60% is installed in various countries throughout the world where we maintain partnership

agreements with qualified local partners.

In addition to our Cologno al Serio, Italy location, Limonta Sport is present in the following locations:

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2) Spain

Limonta Sport Iberica is a Catalan firm that was

founded in 1994 to construct and install all sorts

of sports facilities throughout Spain.

Limonta Sport Iberica boasts the specialised

human and technical resources needed to design

and construct third-generation soccer facilities.

The system is ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 14001

quality certified.

1) Italy

Limonta Sport Italia is the result of the teamwork

and joint know-how of Limonta Sport and AK

Green, a leader in the construction of sports

facilities.

Limonta Sport Italia has been operative since

March 2005 and, thanks to our experience,

technological developments and innovations,

aims to become the undisputed leader on the

Italian market.

L I M O N T A S P O R T H U I Z H O U 3) China

Limonta Sport Huizhou, founded in 2004, is the

new Limonta Sport production facility for third-

generation artificial turf in China.

Limonta Sport Huizhou boasts tufting machinery

and equipment and is managed by a team of

European and local professionals.

The company’s objective is to offer Chinese and

Asian markets high quality products furnished

quickly, efficiently, and with the utmost

consideration of the client’s needs.

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Limonta Sport offers various lines of sports floorings:

NEWGRASS : the ideal surface for hockey, tennis, five-a-side football, baseball, golf, and multisports

facilities. Available in sanded, semi-sanded, and non-sanded versions. A variety of filaments, structures,

and in-fills offers maximum playability for non-professional as well as the most demanding athletes.

NewGrass floor coverings reach the highest standards set by leading international sports federations.

SOCCERPRO : a third-generation synthetic grass in-filled with sand and granulated rubber, specifically

designed for soccer pitches.

SoccerPro artificial grass is suitable for official competitions and for training under all weather

conditions, including winter frosts or rain, when natural grass fields would become unplayable.

Not only professionals, but especially young players who have only just begun developing their skills,

will be able to optimise their full potential right from the beginning.

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SPORTGROUNDS : a variety of surfaces suitable for indoor facilities characterised by a

heterogeneous, non-delaminatable multilayer structure for high shock-absorption, energy restitution,

and playability. The high-density surface guarantees long-term durability, while the fibreglass

reinforcement allows excellent dimensional stability. The special embossing with polyurethane finish

enhances athletic performance with maximum safety.

The SANALIM antibacterial treatment ensures considerable and permanent hygiene while

maintenance is quick and simple.

LANSCAPING AND RECREATIONAL GRASS : Artificial grass for both public and private ornamental

use.

DELUXE : The innovative Deluxe product offers an evergreen grass under all climatic conditions.

Deluxe was developed expecially to combine the positive characteristics of natural grass with the

added advantages of artificial turf – like reduced mainteinance, extended durability and an attractive

evergreen colour.

Deluxe is available in two versions : with and without coloured quarz sand infill.

The exclusive yarns used make it truly unique in its category.

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Limonta Sport artificial grass production facilities make use of the latest tufting and finishing processes

that allow us to mantain high quality in our finished products. Production activities can be divided into

various phases:

1) RAW MATERIAL AND SET UP : Limonta

Sport uses specific fibres for each individual

sport. Each particular compound guarantees the

elimination of abrasion risk, a high stability to UV

exposure, and conservation of the performance

characteristics under all climatic conditions.

3) FINISHING : To guarantee that our floorings

respond effectivly to extraordinary wear and

stress, Limonta Sport has chosen latex as well

as resistant and reliable primary supports with

particolarly high dimensional stability.

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2) TUFTING : Our 10 tufting looms offer the

flexibility and capacity to allow the production of

a wide variety of articles to satisfy the needs of

our most qualified partners.

4) PACKAGING : Our fully automated facility

permits the packaging of rolls of artificial turf in

such a way as to guarantee their integrity during

transport and storage. Our wearehouse carries

a sufficient variety and quantity of products to

guarantee immediate delivery year-round.

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Limonta Sport also boasts a research and development laboratory and a dedicated technical team who

constantly monitor and seek to improve the quality of our products in order to guarantee continual

innovations.

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THE LIMONTA SPORT LABORATORY

Lisport test equipment Lisport preparation

Tested products archives Standard product sampling

Technicians’ meeting The laboratory : interior

Limonta Sport also maintains a mobile laboratory equipped with all the apparatus necessary for field

testing. Thanks to this laboratory, Limonta Sport has perfected a sophisticated monitoring system for

fields and an analysis of the data collected to guarantee precise performance evaluations of installed

coverings.

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The Limonta Sport mobile laboratory Testing shck absorption and deformation

Ball roll test Recording of ball roll values

Traction test Spike wear simulation

Artificial turf has existed for a few decades; it could be said that it was originally developed to surpass the

limitations of natural grass under particularly extreme geographic and/or climatic conditions.

The evolution of artificial turf surfaces may be presented as a series of generations:

1) First generation 2) Seconda generation

Synthetic, non-filled surfaces, Artificial surfaces with lower density

typically used for of fibre and completely in-filled with

American-style football round sand, typically used for tennis

and multisport facilities.

3) Third generation

Over recent years, leading producers of soccer playing surfaces have been increasingly motivated

to be able to offer a product that combines the advantages, the comfort, and the safety of natural

grass with minimal maintenance and maximum usage.

The structural basis of third generation artificial grass systems consists of a combination of

synthetic fibres that are as similar as possible to natural grass in terms of height, in order to allow

infilling with a calibrated compound of sand and granulated rubber. This innovative solution is the

one best suited to the game of soccer even today.

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ARTIFICIAL GRASS: THE EVOLUTION