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7/4/2025
Surfaces for every passion
From padel to pickleball and from baseball to athletics and skating: the right technology for every sport
Nine sports flooring projects completed with Mapei systems across Europe and the United States. From padel and pickleball courts to athletics tracks, baseball fields, skating areas, and multi-purpose sports halls, each project highlights Mapei’s ability to deliver high-performance, durable, and safe surfaces. These interventions demonstrate the adaptability of Mapei’s technologies to different sports, climates, and user needs, ensuring comfort, safety, sustainability, and aesthetic quality in both indoor and outdoor settings.
PADEL - SMASH PADEL CLUB, LATINA (ITALY)
A modern sports centre with five resin padel courts, four for doubles matches and one for singles, created using the innovative Mapecoat TNS Comfort system. A multi-layered system was applied over an area of around 1,000 m2, creating high performance playing surfaces with the capacity to reduce impact trauma and enable excellent technical performance and quick, safe changes in direction with an excellent balance between equilibrium and slide. With these characteristics, the sports centre guarantees a unique playing experience, combining innovation, comfort and high performance for all passionate padel players.
In the Smash padel club Mapecoat TNS Comfort system was applied over an area of around 1,000 square meters creating high performance playing surfaces and ensuring high playing comfort and quick, safe changes in direction.
PADEL - ITALIAN NAVY BASE, AUGUSTA (ITALY)
The sports facilities were redeveloped at the Navy Base in Augusta (Sicily), home of the 4th Italian Naval Division – Comforpat, transforming a former basketball court into a multi-purpose area (basketball, 5-a-side football and volleyball) and an old 5-a-side football pitch into a padel court. The project included installation of Mapecomfort R polyurethane rubber pad to guarantee impact absorption and more comfort during play, which was bonded in place with Ultrabond Turf 2 Stars Pro adhesive. The next step was to treat the substrate with Mapecoat TNS Primer EPW, followed by the application of Mapecoat TNS Base Coat White HV to level off the surface. The final coating of ITF-certified Mapecoat TNS Finish 3 was applied to create a resistant, high performance surface. The lines for the courts were then marked out with Mapecoat TNS Line. The synergy between the Navy led by Erika Montebello, Civil Engineering Post Captain Donato Orlando and Marshall Michele Davide Aspanò, Mapei experts and the main contractor F.lli Anastasi Srl, helped complete the work in line with the highest of standards, providing high quality sports facilities for navy personnel.
ITF-certified Mapecoat TNS Finish 3 was applied to create a resistant, high performance sport surface in this padel court.
PICKLEBALL - SHOOTING RANGE, SALAMANCA (SPAIN)
Inside the Club, with sports and leisure facilities for all ages, a new lease of life has been given to a sports facility in very poor condition, transforming it into a modern pickleball court. The first phase of the work was to remove and repair the damaged areas. The substrate was then prepared using Mapecoat TNS Primer EPW, followed by the application of Mapecoat TNS Base Coat White HV acrylic resin basecoat and filling paste to guarantee a stable, long-lasting surface. Then, for the finish, Mapecoat TNS Color was used in the colours blue and green, while the lines for the playing area were marked out with Mapecoat TNS Line. Thanks to this intervention, the Club now offers a cutting-edge pickleball courts where safety, performance and comfort are guaranteed during every match.
In this sport centre, Mapecoat TNS Base Coat White HV acrylic resin basecoat and filling paste was used to create a stable, long-lasting surface before finishing them with Mapecoat TNS Color in blue and green.
PICKLEBALL - WILLOWS AT GRANDE DUNES, MYRTLE BEACH, SOUTH CAROLINA (USA)
Two new pickleball courts have been built to provide the residents of a luxurious residential complex in Myrtle Beach with cutting-edge recreational facilities. Mapei took part in the project by supplying a system for creating concrete sports flooring, as well as materials to create the playing surfaces. Work included the use of Mapecrete System, which is ideal for creating concrete flooring without/with a limited number of contraction joints, preventing shrinkage cracks, and creating surfaces with a high degree of durability. The newly created courts were finished off using the Mapecoat TNS Professional multi-layered system made of acrylic resins in water dispersion, which ensures playing surfaces are long-lasting. The UV- and abrasion-resistant system also provides an even playing surface for safe, high-speed rallies with consistent ball bounce so players can enjoy a high level of comfort.
The pickleball courts were completed with the Mapecoat TNS Professional multi-layered system made of acrylic resins in water dispersion.
ATHLETICS - PAAVO NURMI STADIUM, TURKU (FINLAND)
Opened to the public in 1890, this is a multi-purpose stadium used for football matches and athletics events dedicated to the memory of Paavo Nurmi, originally from the city of Turku and winner of 9 Olympic gold medals. 20 world athletics records were set here between 1925 and 1954. In 2024 Mapei worked together with the company Spesifix on refurbishing the athletics track. Work included installation of rubber tracks using Adesilex G19 adhesive, an extremely strong, tough, and elastic adhesive specifically developed for installing rubber athletics tracks. Following the refurbishment of the track, the stadium became, once again, a symbol of excellence, ready to write new pages in the history of athletics.
Renovation work in the Paavo Nurmi Stadium included the installation of rubber tracks using Adesilex G19 adhesive.
BASEBALL - MOUNTAIN BROOK ATHLETIC COMPLEX, MOUNTAIN BROOK, ALABAMA (USA)
This large sports complex, located on the campus of Mountain Brook High School and Junior High School recently upgraded their baseball fields to provide the local community with safe, high-quality pitches. Mapei took part in the project by supplying products to bond the synthetic grass for five baseball and softball pitches. Once the old turf had been removed, new synthetic grass was installed over a total area of 15,502 m². Ultrabond Turf PU 1K one-component polyurethane adhesive was used to bond jointing strips of Ultrabond Turf Tape with the help of the Ultrabond Turf Glue Box, ensuring a perfect bond. The new grass surfaces ensure that the residents of Mountain Brook now have durable, game-ready, superior pitches that require less maintenance, helping to support the passion and talent of young athletes.
New synthetic grass was installed over a total area of 15,502 m² in the baseball courts with Ultrabond Turf PU 1K one-component polyurethane adhesive and Ultrabond Turf Tape.
SKATING - LA FLORIDA SKATE PARK, MARBELLA (SPAIN)
With an area of 6,600 m2 this skate park is the largest in Andalusia. Mapei, in collaboration with the company Play in Colors, helped give the park its form and colour. The first phase of the work was to grind the concrete surface with power tools, followed by the application of a coat of Mapecoat TNS Primer EPW two-component epoxy primer. For the final phase, the surface was finished off with two coats of Mapecoat TNS Extreme SF, a two-component epoxy-acrylic rapid-drying coloured product that dries quickly rapidly and forms a durable coating on sport surfaces. A space free to use and at the service of all where design and performance come together, creating a point of reference for all those with a passion for skating.
Mapei helped give this skating park new colour by supplying Mapecoat TNS Extreme SF, a rapid-drying, two-component epoxy-acrylic coloured coating product for sport surfaces.
MULTI-PURPOSE COURTS - MUNICIPAL SPORT COMPLEX, BALAGUER (SPAIN)
The beech flooring in this leisure centre was badly damaged by moisture and needed to be renovated. Mapei helped give a new lease of life to the wooden surface of this multi-purpose court (basketball, volleyball and handball) by applying Ultracoat Sport System, a system used to finish wood sports flooring and certified according to FIBA standards. The areas in the worst condition were repaired and new wood floors were installed using Ultrabond P913 2K two-component epoxy-polyurethane adhesive (now available as Ultrabond P913 2K Plus). The flooring was then sanded down to bare wood and, after cleaning the joints, they were grouted with Ultracoat Binder.
The next step was to apply Ultracoat Sport System: a coat of Ultracoat Premium Base water-based basecoat followed by a finishing cycle consisting of Ultracoat HT Sport polyurethane lacquer with high chemical and mechanical resistance and a coat of Ultracoat Sport Color water-based coloured acrylic paint to mark out the playing areas. And lastly, to complete the finish, one final coat of Ultracoat HT Sport was applied. The use of Ultracoat Sport System ensure a quality surface ready to guarantee excellent and long-lasting performance.
Mapei helped give a new lease of life to the wooden surface of this multi-purpose court by applying Ultracoat Sport System.
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