A Meler installation under the sun
Adhesive application for sports field maintenance
We at Focke Meler are used to working in numerous industries and adapting to our customers’ specific adhesive-application needs. Even so, an opportunity to collaborate on installations like the one we have created for SIS Pitches is unique. Focke Meler has designed a mobile hot melt application system for working under the sun.
SIS Pitches is a leading company in the manufacture, installation and maintenance of sports fields for the sports and leisure industry worldwide. FIFA’s official supplier, SIS Pitches ensures that European Football, Rugby, Tennis and Hockey championships can be held under the very best playing conditions.
Advantages of using adhesives and teamwork
Originally British, the company has been recently relying on Focke Meler systems to carry out maintenance work on artificial grass pitches. Hot adhesive is used to mark the lines drawn on pitches and ensure their stability during the game. The use of adhesive in this kind of maintenance offers big advantages compared to other systems, such as:
- excellent moisture- and temperature-protection properties
- possibility of painting over the product
- high resistance to traction
As with sport, this hot melt application requires perfect teamwork organisation: three or four operators are needed to apply the adhesive, inset the substrate and, at the same time, move the trolley carrying the electric generator and hot melter. The success of its daily work is based on speed and perfect coordination.