As if there wasn't enough fun to be had on a Snowflex slope, tubing is now proving to be a hit up and down the UK.
Some
operators have recognised the massive potential to increase their
revenue streams and are offering tubing parties for the whole family.
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The Briton installation team marches on and on.
Development of the slope was steady through spring but just lately the installation effort was increased to meet the deadline set. And as promised all of the Snowflex® has now been laid to the first phase of the project. |
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Briton Engineering Developments are pleased to have taken part in the 4
Jours de Dunkerque event in Nœux Les Mines, France this weekend.
As
part of the celebrations Briton Engineering Developments, together with
the Halifax AKA snowsports crew, decided to show the residents of Nœux
Les Mines and the Pas de Calais region in France what freestyle
snowsports are all about.
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Crystal, one of the UK’s leading tour operators has published its annual Ski Industry Report confirming what we at Briton have known for a long time. Snowsports are definitely increasing in popularity!
The British snowsports market has just recorded one of its strongest periods of growth, with 7% more snowsporters taking a holiday abroad than the previous season.
According to the report 1.15m ski & boarding holidays were bought in 2005/06 showing an increase of 40% more than in the mid-80s. |
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Briton Engineering Developments & Bearfire Group to bring winter sports to Dallas, Texas
Briton Engineering Developments are pleased to announce that they have been chosen to work alongside the Bearfire Group to supply and install their award winning Snowflex® surface system to the planned $375m Coolzone Winterplex project in Dallas, Texas.
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Briton Invades Utah Olympic Park with New Jump Surface SNOWFLEX USA, based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, who are the exclusive representatives for Briton Engineering Developments in the USA, announced this week the retrofit of jumps and ramps with the top surface of the successful 4-layer Snowflex® system (known as Traxflex®), at the Utah Olympic Park, Park City, Utah.
John Bennion, CEO, and Rex Dabling, Park Director of Utah Olympic Park made a recent trip to the UK to meet Brian Thomas, Managing Director of Briton Engineering, and to test and ride the Snowflex® surface as part of their park development research. Their continuing improvements for the UOP is upgrading and offering the most advanced, high-tech synthetic surface for Olympic Freestyle skier & snowboarder training in the world.
“We decided to use Traxflex® to make the ramps more user friendly to snowboarders and novice skiers,” stated Stefan Berkel, UOP Pool Manager. “The folks at Briton Engineering in the UK and their US representative Dieter Sturm, have been awesome to work with. As a facility manager, I would highly recommend Briton Engineering and their Traxflex® & Snowflex® products.”
The Olympic Park crew worked hard and installed the Traxflex® by opening day of the Freestyle Training Pool.
“So far the feedback from our users groups has been extremely positive,” said Berkel. |
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Olympic skier Alain Baxter officially opened the latest Snowflex®
surfaced facility at Bearsden Ski & Board Club on Saturday 6th May
2006.
The new snowboard park, two nursery slopes and a new
clubhouse were built with the help of a SportScotland Lottery award of
£200,000 from the Building for Sport Programme.
The club’s
facilities now boast a state-of-the-art floodlit ‘Snowflex’ main 80m
long slope with jumps and a quarter pipe for snowboarders and two new
‘Snowflex’ nursery slopes, which compliment the existing facilities at
the Club. There is also a new chalet style clubhouse with bar and
catering facilities. The new clubhouse incorporates changing rooms, ski
hire area and a fitness suite.
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New Snowflex® park for Newquay
Cornwall will see all the excitement of the Alps and the recent Winter Olympics on a permanent basis with the creation of Winterpark Cornwall, an innovative Urban Snowsports Centre which will cater for skiing, snowboarding and tobogganing on the outskirts of Newquay.
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Briton Engineering Developments are pleased to confirm that their new
literature promoting Snowflex® and the Urban Snowsports Centre is now
available to potential investors, architects, contractors and leisure
facility operators.
The literature reinforces the new branding
and corporate colours to their maximum effect, and promotes the most
sophisticated and technologically advanced snowsports surface in the
market today.
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French project well on course for the summer
Since the initial announcement made back in January, Briton have been working alongside their agents Envirosport SA in developing the slope in Nœux-les-Mines project in northern France.
Groundworks to the hill are now nearing completion and the first deliveries of Snowflex® and associated products have also been received on site.
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The weekend of the 25th – 27th November saw the Briton Snowflex®
installation team in Madrid, Spain at the Fiera de Madrid for the Esqui
de Montagna, a spectacular event showcasing the best of what alpine
sports have to offer.
Standing out amongst the rock climbing,
go-karting and mountain biking features was a 300 square metre slope
decked out in virginal white Snowflex, ready for the general public to
test to their utmost. At various points over the weekend show teams
took to the slope and put the custom-built ramp and kicker to work,
producing a variety of flips and twists to impress the crowd which
gathered around the edge of the counterslope.
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