Nov 5 2009
The Maple Flooring Manufacturers Association (MFMA) has designed PUR Standards to quantify performance characteristics that best define a “good sports floor”.
MFMA’s focus for the PUR standards are shock absorption (measuring the flooring systems ability to absorb impact forces generated by the athlete), vertical deflection (measuring the floors downward movement during the impact of an athlete’s landing on the surface), area of deflection (measuring the floors ability to contain the deflected area under an athlete’s impact), basketball rebound (measuring the basketball’s rebound response off the sports floor system) and surface friction (measuring an athletic flooring finish’s ability to control the sliding of athletes on a sports surface). These standards have been designed, utilizing exacting testing methodologies, to ensure that customers receive a reliable, well performing, competitive sports surface. When a flooring system is MFMA PUR compliant, it is an assurance that the floor has passed the PUR standards. These standards reflect the competitive nature of today’s athletes and provide them with the tools to succeed.
“No one knows more about how a good floor should perform and how it should be installed than the MFMA members,” says Jay Stoehr, President of MFMA. “As an organization representing the worldwide sports flooring industry, our goal is to balance technical standards with practical flooring system design in order to create uniform standards of performance in competition sports floors,” Stoehr added.
Source: http://www.maplefloor.org/