Tarkett improves turf quality with an automated infeed solution

Tarkett improves synthetic turf production with Handsaeme Machinery’s automated infeed and revert-roll system

Tarkett, a global leader in athletic surfaces, delivers comprehensive solutions for both indoor and outdoor sports flooring. As part of their commitment to producing high-performance synthetic turf—used in football, rugby, and field hockey fields—they partnered with Handsaeme Machinery to develop a specialized revert-roll machine for one of their artificial turf production lines. This machine serves as the infeed of the back coating line and precisely aligns the fibres of the tuft, ensuring they are positioned correctly before entering the coating process and guaranteeing better guidance of the tuft through the line, assuring both efficiency and meeting the highest quality standards.

Pierre Mazure, the project and process engineer overseeing the development and integration of this machine at Tarkett, looks back on a very positive collaboration with Handsaeme Machinery. 

Throughout the process, communication was sufficient, despite being limited—primarily because everything progressed according to plan and little clarification was needed.

There was a mandatory completion date for the project, and Handsaeme Machinery successfully met this deadline. Whenever I had questions or wanted to check on progress, I always received timely and clear answers.

A two-day training session was provided, which in retrospect might have been insufficient—not due to the quality of the training, but because the team currently operating the machine consists of R&D staff rather than experienced production line operators. As a result, a few mistakes occurred during initial operation due to unfamiliarity, not because of the quality of the machine. This is something we should have anticipated and better planned for.”