As Conica's first female Chief Commercial Officer, Lara Guillod bundles all activities in the areas of Sales, Marketing, Customer Service and Product ­Development as of March 01, 2022. The globally active manufacturer of high-performance sports flooring systems is looking back at a record year in 2021.

Over six decades, the practice for architecture, urban design and interiors has created some of Australia’s most innovative, celebrated and sustainable environments in sport, community, education, housing, and urban design.  

Artificial turf pitches are becoming increasingly popular for sports facilities. The decisive advantages are that they can be used with high intensity and independently of the weather. When choosing a new artificial turf, the question that has to be asked is: “How ‘green’ is a modern artificial turf?”

There is a long history between the Olympic Games and Avant Sports. As early as 2008, it participated in the Beijing Olympics. By the Rio Olympics in 2016, Avant Sports became the only seat supplier in China, and now it has perfectly delivered the project of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The Olympic Stadium seats 4,600 spectators on two grandstand levels, from where they enjoy a perfect view of the various sporting events such as football, rugby and athletics.

With the founding of the recycling company FormaTurf, a sister company of Polytan, the material life cycle of artificial turf systems has finally been closed. Now the company will take over the removal and complete recycling of the artificial turf, including the recycling of all its materials, i.e. the infill and the sand.