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Environmental Commitment
We evaluate the environmental aspects of our activities, with the aim of protecting the environment, adopting practices that enhance pollution prevention as well as improving our environmental performance.
The Cork Oak is Portugal's National Tree
At the end of 2011, the cork oak was unanimously established as Portugal's National Tree. This classification is directly related to the economic, social and environmental performance that it represents to the country. Around 23% of Portugal's forest area is made up of cork oaks, which support the country's main indust…
1 - Functional suitability and comfort
Given cork’s natural touch and feel, synthetic turf with cork-based or cork infill is the closest thing to natural turf and offers great playing conditions. In addition, for avoiding overheating during use, a cork infill makes a positive contribution to players’ performance and comfort, given its ability to absorb mois…
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Given its unique cellular structure, cork has a high shock-absorption capacity and thermal conductivity. These characteristics, together with a natural texture and appearance, make cork infills a non-aggressive solution for players, guaranteeing system performance and reducing wear and tear.
Innovation
Amorim Sports is strongly committed to developing new products in which cork mixed with other natural and recyclable materials will create a new generation of cork-based infills and shockpads, delivering high performance and sustainability.
Are all types of infills the same? What are the main types available in the market?
There are several different types of infills available in the market. Sand is a typical stabilizing infill and can be used alone or in combination with other performance infills on top. Typical performance infills include: SBR, EPDM, recycled EPDM, TPE. Beside synthetic infills, there are different kinds of organic inf…
feature: Designed for high performance
Designed for high performance
Amorim Ice is a circular economy born infill, with recycled paper fibres and cork inside. It incorporates cork and paper fibers around up to…
Amorim Ice delivers excellent thermal performance and softness, offering players and coaches all the guarantees from their artificial turf system. It offers a good balance of shock absorption, elasticity, stable strength, durability and heat-resistance. It has increased wear resistance when compared to 100% natural in…
Cork infills ensure performance naturally
Amorim Nature infills’ main goals are to allow functional suitability, a balance between cost-effectiveness and environmental compatibility, material durability, and multifunctionality.
Main Goal
When choosing a suitable and, above all, sustainable artificial turf system, the DJK Dülmen club aimed to provide a better sport performance as an alternative to the natural turf field. Due to the growth of teams and hours of training, especially outside the summer season, the old natural turf field did not meet the de…
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Green Power company was in charge of the project installation. The structural base was made of asphalt with a draining profile. A pre-fabricated shock pad was provided with 17mm, with drainage capacity and absorption performance. The filling of the turf with sand (18kg/m2), as a weight layer, and Amorim Nature 190 cork…
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Polytan Denmark The project took place during spring 2020. 8858 m2 of POLYTAN´s grass “Legend Pro” was installed on top of the prefabricated PRO PLAY shockpad with a height of 23 mm. As weight layer on the artificial grass, 19 kg/m2 of sand was filled in, before the installation of 1.9 kg/m2 of Amorim Nature 130, as a…
High performance, sustainable and ecological turf field
GOTEC Sportsysteme, a German company specialized in the construction and maintenance of sports grounds, chose a cork-based natural infill for artificial turf for the construction project of the SG Malsburg-Marzell Sports Club football field in Germany.
Sustainability and high performance for the “Forest City” Schöneiche’s artificial turf pitch
The SV Germania 90 club and the municipality of Schöneiche chose a cork-based natural infill for artificial turf when they rebuilt their pitch in Germany.