Domo(R) Sports Grass is Providing the Artificial Grass for the Biggest Sports Infrastructure Investment Ever in Flanders

SINT NIKLAAS, Belgium, September 16, 2010 - Playing on artificial grass has many advantages. Artificial
grass can be played on up to five times longer than natural grass in
practically all weather conditions. Artificial grass also provides higher
playing comfort and a faster, more technical play on a safer playing surface.

On 23 July 2010 the Flemish Government, on the proposal of
Philippe Muyters, Flemish Minister for Sport, definitively approved the
dossier for the construction of 29 pitches with artificial grass from Domo(R)
Sports Grass. A first cluster of artificial grass pitches has been
implemented as part of the previously launched modernisation of sports
infrastructure and financed by public-private collaborations. The concrete
implementation has been awarded to the Krinkels construction company.

The local authorities that are included in the first cluster
of artificial grass pitches are: Aalst (2 pitches), Antwerp (province),
Antwerp (city), Borsbeek, Bruges, Ghent (7 pitches), Grimbergen, Halle (2
pitches), Herselt, Huldenberg, Lommel, Maasmechelen (2 pitches), Machelen,
Mechelen, Merchtem, Oudenaarde, Sint-Pieters-Leeuw, Tongeren, Turnhout and
Wommelgem.

Domo(R) Sports Grass, located in Sint Niklaas, has been the
Belgian market leader in artificial grass sports pitches and will produce
these artificial grass courts for Krinkels over a period of several years. In
2010, the first nine courts are to be installed, which together amount to
approximately 80,000 msquared.

The selected artificial grass, Domo(R) VarioSlide S PRO, is an
excellent and natural looking grass mat made with a new technology: Heliflex.
After years of research, a controllable spiral form has successfully been
affixed to the monofilament yarns of the grass. This technology creates the
ultimate grass mat with untried elasticity. When vertical, the spiral yarn is
at rest, but as soon as lateral or downward pressure is exerted, the yarn
comes under tension, and will want to spring back upright into its natural
resting position as quickly as possible. By applying the Heliflex Technology
to the entire surface, a pitch is created in which the grass yarns always
spring up nice and straight. This means that the ball always rolls or lies on
the tips of the upright yarns, which thereby perfectly guarantees the most
important playing properties in football: "ball roll" and "foot under the
ball". More than ever before, the players also have the feeling of playing on
natural grass.

Domo(R) VarioSlide S PRO has also been thoroughly tested
according to all major global standards, FIFA Quality Concept, European
standard EN 15330-1, German standard DIN 18035-7, Swiss standard ESSM105D, as
well as NFP 90-112, IRB and GAA. Various other FIFA 2STAR projects have
already been implemented with this type of grass mat, including Billerbeck
2009, Espen Moos 2009 and Oostakker 2009.

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For more information: Domo(R) Sports Grass, Sint Niklaas, Sales Director: jean.willems at domo.org - +32-477-39-61-18, Marketing Manager: sarah.leysen at domo.org - +32-477-39-61-54