Italian dry ski slope manufacturer Neveplast, who are responsible for the longest ski slopes the world (over 1.1km), in the Russian republic of Chechnya, as well as the iconic power-plant ski slope in Copenhagen, have announced they have created a pump track for snowboardcross (SBX) world champion Michela Moioli. “I am very happy; I like it a lot! It was
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One of the more interesting ideas for an artificial surface ski slope was put forward in 1958 by German industrialist Dr Rudolf Alberti. Alberti owned a mining operation in the country’s Harz Mountains. Established in 1958 and still in operation today as Deutsche Baryt-Industrie, the company produced barium sulphates and calcium fluoride. Dr Alberti, a keen skier, took an interest
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On the same latitude line as the world-famous ski resorts in Hokkaido, four never-ending indoor ski slopes have opened at a new centre at Changchun, the capital of Jilin Province in China. Changhun, also known as “the Detroit of China” because of its immense automobile industry, is home to a large family entertainment centre including four ski slope machines manufactured
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A boarder who initially learned her skills and then spent most of her formative years on dry slopes has won the annual Crystal Globe from the International Ski Federation having finished the 2019-20 World Cup season well ahead in the women’s snowboard slopestyle competition. Katie Ormerod from Brighouse in Yorkshire, England, is the first British woman and the first British
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Scotland-based ski site DrySlopeNews.com has won a major award in this year’s selection of winners from the American-based International Skiing History Association (ISHA). The independent organisation’s annual awards recognise “outstanding creative work in ski history” and the 17 winners come from around the globe with winners in different categories coming from Canada, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovenia and Sweden as well
Read moreLlandudno Snowsports Centre have completely renewed their main slope with a new Ski-Tech surface using Diamond Mat Technology. The new 200 metre long slope, which required a £250,000 investment from Sport England, Sport Wales and The Nike Group of Companies It has taken three months to install, required 430 anchors, each drilled more than a metre in the ground to
Read moreWhat is claimed to be the longest ever artificial ski run has opened in Chechnya a federal republic of Russia. A precise length of the slope has not yet been published, only that it is “more than 1 km” long. The previous claimant of the “longest in the world” title opened in 2016 at Kagura in Japan, with a run
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Briton Engineering Developments has announce the first major Snowflex® slope to be built in Sichuan Province, China in Wufengxi Park, Chengdu. Wufengxi Park is a new mixed outdoor sports and tourism project being developed by Shanghai Xueyu Sports Management on behalf of Chengdu Culture Tourism Wufengxi Investment Management. The new snowsports area will consist of a main and nursery Snowflex®
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A £300,000 fun slope is to be part of as major redevelopment of the Hillend dry ski centre above Edinburgh in Scotland. Midlothian Council, which runs the centre, announced plans for a £13.8 million investment in to the facility, currently officially known as the Midlothian Snowsport Centre, earlier this year, but issued the request to tender for the new slope
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Italian firm Neveplast has built their first artificial ski slope in Spain. The installation in the town of Virgen de la Vega close to Valencia is 60 metres long and 15 metres wide and is made with the company’s Np30+ surface, the latest surface type developed by Neveplast and the same as the company used on the Copenhill waste-to-energy plant,
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