HARO Sports Flooring 4 times on the FSB 2011

Sports floor producer presents world’s first “Rome Tennis”

Rosenheim/Cologne - The world’s first completely portable tennis floor made its debut at the show tournament Nike® Clash of the Champions last March in the US state of Oregon. Now HARO Sports Flooring, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of portable and fixed-installed, elastic coating sports floors, presents its new world’s first “Rome Tennis” at the FSB, a fair for amenity areas, sports and pool facilities that takes place in Cologne from 26th to 28th October 2011. Anyway, there will be no way around the floor specialist with the four red letters, as HARO Sports is represented four times on the FSB.

Set and match: HARO Rome Tennis
Due to the increasing demand for floors with high shock absorption on the one hand and greatest possible mobility on the other, the German-Australian double HARO Sports Flooring and Rebound Ace® now surprises the tennis scene with a genuine world’s first: HARO Rome Tennis is the world’s first completely mobile tennis court. Hamberger provides the mobile floor HARO Sports Rome 10, and Rebound Ace refines it with the reliable acrylic surface.

The new HARO Sports “Top“ models save time and money
The new HARO Sports “Top“ system – prefabricated assembly units including load distribution – provide an especially quick installation for the models Helsinki 10, Helsinki Eco, Stockholm 10 and Melbourne 65. With this new system the important factors cost and time are added to the credit side of the DIN-tested sports floors made in Germany, besides their perfect performance.

The 126 sqm-large HARO Sports main trade fair stand - one of four HARO Sports representation sites on the FSB 2011

Live and in colour…
... the innovative sports floors can be inspected on the 126 sqm trade fair stand R/S 40/41 in hall 11.2. The second appearance of HARO Sports Flooring: another stand is situated in the FIBA Village, the basketball village of the International Basketball Federation FIBA (Fédération Internationale de Basketball) in hall 11.1. Next to the large FIBA stand, its members and partners are grouped around a basketball court in which, for the first time, solely a Rome 20 sports floor by HARO Sports has been installed. Competition shows and other events around the subject of basketball find a suiting stage and the sports floor producer can present himself in the most best light.

The third appearance of HARO Sports: the world’s first, the mobile floor HARO Sports Rome Tennis is the floor of the Nike Grind™ trade fair stand. Nike Grind™ and HARO Sports Flooring have an agreement allowing HARO to distribute a foam cushioning system on the American continent that incorporates the Nike Grind™ material made from recycled parts of athletic shoes. This gave rise to a cooperation with the Australian Nike Grind™ partner Rebound Ace. Thanks to this cooperation, the sports floor manufacturer from Rosenheim is represented four times on the leading business, communication and contact platform of the international sports and leisure industry. The new, appealing appearance on the trade fair keeps what it product novelties promise and clearly presents HARO Sports Flooring as a reliable and competent partner, with over 50 years of experience in the production of sports floors and over 8000 successfully accomplished projects. Decision-makers of municipal and private sports and leisure centres, clubs, as well as architects and designers from all over the world can get comprehensive advice on the best floor solution in sports and multi-purpose halls from the experienced HARO specialists.

Passion for basketball

Lithuania and HARO Sports Flooring give their best for the EuroBaskets 2011

Lithuania – In Lithuania basketball is more than just a sport, it is almost a religion. Therefore the perfect setting for the European Basketball Championship – the Eurobaskets – 2011. HARO Sports Flooring, one of the leading manufacturers of portable and fixed-installed, elastic coating sports floors and a reliable partner for many years, will give its best again: its sports floors.

The Klaipeda arena

But there is no competition without training
Especially in the professional surroundings of a European Championship it is the experience of the supplier and the quality of its products that count. Lithuania invested in building three more sports facilities for the Eurobaskets 2011 and chose sports floors made in Germany. For decades, HARO sports floors have been used for European and World Championships. The training halls of the Arena Klaipedos in Klaipeda and the Arena Žalgirio in Kaunas were equipped with the HARO Sports Floor Helsinki 10 in Ash. Over 700 sqm (7,534 sq feet) and nearly 1300 sqm (13,993 sq feet) were installed permanently. The Helsinki model is a sports floor with an elastic layer and due to its low profile it is also perfect for renovations. Thanks to its even construction, the floor has excellent sports-physiological characteristics. The parquet is given a factory-finished Permadur surface which makes it highly abrasion-resistant and especially easy to care for - highly important characteristics when it comes to longevity and easy care of a sports floor.

For the group matches and the final matches of the Eurobaskets in the new multi-purpose halls Klaipeda and Kaunas, the portable floor HARO Sports Rome 20 climbs into the ring with 618 sqm (6,652 sq feet)

HARO goes mobile
For the group matches and the final matches of the Eurobaskets in the new multi-purpose halls Klaipeda and Kaunas, the portable floor HARO Sports Rome 20 climbs into the ring with 618 sqm (6,652 sq feet). The portable sports floors by HARO Sports Flooring are the only floors certified by FIBA (International Basketball Federation) that also satisfy the highest requirements of the DIN V 18032-2 standard. The best conditions for the game! Each floor element weighs less than 32 kg and is very easy to handle. Thanks to the special patented interlocking system, the elements are assembled so that it looks as if they have been installed without joints. Installation and removal of the floor can be done within a few hours which benefits the use as a multi-purpose hall. The Arena Zalgirio was designed for music concerts and festivals as well as for sport events.

The Eurobaskets
The European Men’s Basketball Championship, officially called EuroBasket, takes place in Lithuania from 31st August to 18th September. The European Basketball Championship is organized by the European basketball federation FIBA Europe. The starting field of the European Basketball Championship 2011 in Lithuania was raised from 16 to 24 teams. This was decided by the European Basketball Federation FIBA Europe at the sidelines of the World Basketball Championship in Istanbul. Initially, it was not planned until 2013 for eight more teams to participate in the European Basketball Championship. With this, the committee of the FIBA Europe complied with a request of the host Lithuania.

Aloha! German Sports Parquet on Hawaii

Brigham Young University Hawaii relies on the new HARO Sports Floor Helsinki 10 Top System

O’ahu (Honolulu County / HI) / Rosenheim – The islands of Hawaii are situated far off the western coast of North America in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.  The Brigham Young University Hawaii (BYU) is on O’ahu. 1800 sqm sports parquet Made in Germany have now been installed there. HARO Sports Flooring, one of the leading manufacturers of mobile and fixed-installed elastic-coating sports floors received the contract due to its high quality of products and service as well as the simple and time-saving installation of the floor.

The new HARO Helsinki 10 Top System saves time and money
There are around 2500 students from over 70 countries at the BYU. The university states that they have a special campus where multi-cultural diversity and academic studies are combined. Sports activities are of high importance at the BYU and this makes the university typically American. The BYU currently offers eleven different types of sport. These range from basketball, volleyball and soccer up to tennis and golf. In all areas, the university focuses on state-of-the-art technical equipment and invests a lot into the new construction of buildings as well as into the training areas for several sports. Of course, as a governmental institution the BYU must mind the costs. After intense and competent advice by the local HARO partner, the persons responsible at the university chose a quality product Made in Germany for the floor of the basketball gym of the "BYU Seasiders". The HARO Sports Helsinki 10 Top System, which was only introduced in November 2010, convinced the university among other things by its quick installation, which saves time and therefore money.

Aloha! German Sports Parquet in the gym of the Brigham Young University of Hawaii (BYU):

8 corners and a humid climate: 1800 sqm of seamlessly installed HARO sports parquet The climatic conditions create a very special challenge: Due to the pacific climate with its fluctuations in air humidity and temperature the floor must be of high dimensional stability.  Moreover, the cutting to size of the octagonal area took a lot of effort. Nevertheless, it took three people only approximately three days. The new HARO Sports Helsinki 10 Top System was able to display its full potential. As the existing, traditionally very light Maple floor in the inner part of the gym area was only refurbished, a more lively grading of the HARO Maple sport parquet was chosen for the outer part of the floor to create a nice visual contrast.                      

High quality for high requirements
Besides the special climatic and architectural features, the requirements for parquet as a sports floor are very high: It should have ideal damping characteristics to prevent possible injuries and signs of fatigue, have the perfect grip, be abrasion-resistant and have a superb ball reflection for a quick match. The Model Helsinki 10 Top System Maple in lively grading by HARO Sports Flooring can provide that: It consists of an elastic layer and a factory-made mounting element with a classical 12,6 mm / 1/2’’ parquet construction and integrated load distribution. Thanks to its thin 3,6 mm / 5/32’’ solid wood top layer, the sports floor is dimensionally more stable than a traditional solid wood floor. The parquet is given a factory-finished Permadur surface which makes it highly abrasion-resistant and especially easy to care for. As the hall is used permanently, these are highly important characteristics when it comes to longevity and easy care of a sports floor.

Double Feature: New Sports floor and Men’s Squash World Championships in Germany

Paderborn / Rosenheim – For the first time ever, the Men’s Squash World Championships are carried out in Germany this year. From 21st till 27th August the “Ahorn Sportpark” in Paderborn will be stage to the best Squash players of the world. The new “ShowGlasCourt” by the company ASB is currently being installed and will definitely do its name more than justice; during the world championship, the lightshow specialist “Lightpower” will illuminate everything. Also one of the sports floors by HARO Sports Flooring will play to the gallery, since it is presented for the first time ever in this format during the Squash World Championship.

The organisation committee chose top quality also when it came to the sports floor: HARO Sports Flooring, one of the leading manufacturers of portable and installed area-elastic sports floors, delivered the specially designed Squash floor HARO Sports Flooring model “Melbourne 65”. This floor has a depth-impregnated rough surface which impedes possible slipping even on wet floors. “Melbourne 65” is one of the few floors approved by the World Squash Federation and has often come into use at international squash championships.

Further information and videos you can find here:

• YuoTube Channel "squashWM"
  Video 1: http://youtu.be/7ZAgH2c9KKo
  Vidoe 2: http://youtu.be/NoBcgOKDolY
• Web page Squash WM 2011: http://www.squashwm2011.de/

HARO Sports Flooring / Benetton Fribourg Olympic

Swiss A-League Basketball Team on HARO Sports Parquet The most beautiful basketball court in Switzerland – fitted with one of the best sports floors in the world

Granges-Paccot – Benetton Fribourg Olympic is one of the most successful teams in the Swiss Ligue Nationale de Basketball A, the top professional league in Switzerland. With its St. Léonard sports hall the club now also has the most beautiful asketball court in Switzerland, which it shares with the women of Elfic Fribourg, and which is also used as the Swiss national basketball team’s training centre. The 2,290 m² of the classic Berlin 12 sports floor in oak from HARO Sports Flooring, a leading manufacturer of mobile and permanently installed elastic coating sports floors, installed here for the league leaders, prove that the hall doesn’t just look good.

The new “Patinoire St. Leonhard” sports hall combines quality and aesthetics: the top quality Made in Germany floor and the pièce de résistance designed by Lorenz & Musso adea SA, Sion (architecture studio), and built under the guidance of the Andrey-Schenker-Sottaz SA (architect’s office) in Freiburg. The hall was inaugurated on 2 July this year in the presence of local dignitaries and sponsors.

Sports Floors Made in Germany

The HARO Berlin Sports Floor model is a classic support structure. The systems can easily balance out slight unevenness on the subfloor with the aid of balancing material. HARO Sports Berlin is elaborately equipped with double rocker supports, which are already preassembled at the factory.

A great view of the parquet from more than 2,700 seats on 23 tiers

The hall can be divided into three small separate sports halls with mobile sound-insulated partition curtains. It can be rapidly converted into an impressive basketball arena in just a few minutes. This is performed with stands, each one carried by 1,250 castors coated with polyurethane, which cover the two side playing areas, and therefore only leave the centrally parquet uncovered. With 23 tiers the stands weigh 77 tons each, have 1,296 seats, and are supplemented by a permanent stand with 145 seats. The sports hall’s entire technical infrastructure is on the ground floor: changing rooms, showers, sanitary facilities, sickbays, offices, etc. There are spectator rooms with bars and sanitary facilities on the first and second floors, which are reached by stairs. There are lifts for the mobility reduced and for goods transport. A perfectly well thought through building – from the roof down to the sports floor!

Top quality sports floor for A league athletes: HARO Berlin 12 Sports Floor in the Patinoire St. Leonhard sports hall.

2,290 m² HARO of sports parquet Made in Germany in Granges-Paccot, Switzerland.

FCB Basketball Team‘s training hall and tournament arena fitted with HARO Sports Flooring

Munich – Säbener Straße in Munich is known as the cradle of gigantic sporting successes – for football in particular. Now FC Bayern’s ProA Basketball Team has set itself the unmistakable goal of moving up into the premier league, and consequently re-establishing Munich as a prominent basketball venue. Thanks to coach Dirk Bauermann, trainer of the German national team, and the floors from HARO Sports Flooring, manufacturer of mobile and permanently installed elastic coating sports floors from Rosenheim in Upper Bavaria, the team’s “Move On Up Mission” is now well within grasp.

The best possible preparation for the “Move On Up Mission”: the training hall in Säbener Straße, Munich. The “Helsinki 15” from HARO Sports Flooring is installed permanently here.

HARO Sports Flooring has already been playing in the very highest league in its industry for several decades now. The FC Bayern ProA Basketball Team’s training hall in Säbener Straße has therefore been fitted with the HARO Sports Helsinki 15. The Helsinki model is a sports floor with elastic coating, which is ideal for renovations because of its low installation height. The floor’s even structure means it has superb sport-physiology properties.

The Rom 25 mobile floor is laid in less than 3 hours, and can be dismantled in even less!

The “Move On Up Mission” venue: the Olympia Eishalle. League games will be played out here on the HARO Rom 25.

628 m² of the Rom 25 mobile floor provided by the Upper Bavarian sports flooring specialists are also kept at the ready especially for the league games in the Olympia Eishalle. This floor, which is used in European and World Championships, meets the highest requirements specified in DIN V 18032-2; April 2001, and in the FIBA Standard – optimum conditions for fighting for those all-important points. Each floor element weighs less than 32 kg and is very easy to handle. Thanks to the special patented interlocking system, the elements are assembled so that it looks as if they have been installed without joints. The “war paint” – i.e. FC Bayern Munich logo and inscription – was already positioned by the manufacturer in Rosenheim. The prepared elements were then brought to the Olympiahalle, where they were laid in less than three hours. And they can be dismantled in even less!

Dirk Bauermann showed how extremely satisfied he was immediately after the first training sessions. “I have known HARO Sports Flooring’s floors for many years now – and I know their qualities, which is why I also spoke up for the manufacturer in the planning phase.”