Desso Sports Systems is the market leader in sports fields. The company produces 3,000,000 m² of artificial turf annually for football, rugby and hockey pitches as well as tennis courts and multi-functional fields.
The reinforced natural grass system, Desso GrassMaster, is also internationally successful with professional and amateur football clubs. Chelsea, Real Madrid, Arsenal FC, AZ Alkmaar, Feyenoord and others play and/or train daily on Desso grass surfaces.
Desso Sports Systems is a FIFA Preferred Producer for artificial turf pitches for football.
Desso Sports Systems is part of Desso, well known for contract carpeting and carpet tiles for offices, public buildings, schools, hospitals and airlines. Sustainability and creativity are important key values that become part of the design and the Cradle-to-Cradle objectives. Its clients include Rabobank, ABN-AMRO, KPN, KLM, Marriot Hotels and Virgin Atlantic.
Today, DESSO can look back on almost 80 years of proven performance, having built a reputation as a leading manufacturer of high quality carpet tiles and broadloom.
DESSO has four factories in Europe, two major distribution centres as well as specialist customer service centres throughout Europe, in America, Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Australasia.
DESSO products are specifically designed for both commercial and domestic applications. Its commercial product offering can be found in offices, banks, retail units, public buildings, schools, universities and care centres.
DESSO Consumer Carpets is represented by three strong brands; Parade, Bonaparte and DESSO. All with a rich history in manufacturing high-end consumer carpets where products are available through specialist retail traders, plus selected carpet stores and home furnishing shops.
DESSO’s creative carpet design and service oriented approach means that it has become a market leader in developing solutions for the Hospitality, Marine and Aviation (HMA) markets.
DESSO Sports Systems leads the market in the provision of artificial turf for sports fields and reinforced natural grass systems that provide the perfect surface at every level of sport.
DESSO’s innovation strategy is concentrated in 3 key areas: Creativity, Functionality and Cradle to Cradle®.
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In signing a partnership agreement with the Environmental Protection Encouragement Agency (EPEA), Desso Sports Systems is the first artifical turf manufacturer worldwide to adopt the Cradle to Cradle® design. It marks Desso's radical decision to move beyond "mere" sustainability in producing its carpets and artificial grass.
Products are:
- produced without waste
- biologically degradable or
- re-usable as raw materials for new products
Desso's Ambition: 100% Cradle to Cradle® closed circle by 2020
The urgent need to safeguard the fragile health of our planet is now widely recognised, and sustainability is a term increasingly applied to practices and processes emerging from our new, environmentally aware society. Many companies now promote the benefits of reducing energy and water consumption, carbon footprint, and waste.
DESSO as well, has been working on the Eco effectiveness and Eco efficiency. Our current energy efficiency index is 73%. Today, waste recycling from our factories exceeds 90%, and all packaging is 100% recyclable.
