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As the venue for the 2024 European Football Championship, the VELTINS-Arena in Gelsenkirchen faced a special challenge. Normally, the turf is stored and maintained outside the stadium and only brought in for matches. To ensure the quality of the turf, the arena has relied for years on the fully automated lighting system from RHENAC GreenTec AG, which supplies the turf outside the stadium with CLS (Complete Light Spectrum) growth light. For the European Championships, however, the turf had to remain in the stadium for 20 days straight - a first for the arena.

In June this year, the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen faced the challenge of hosting four European Championship games and eight training sessions in just 14 days. The teams that aimed to excel in Gelsenkirchen were England, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Serbia, Georgia and Slovakia. Benefitting from modern technology, the grass team delivered a perfect pitch.

RHENAC GreenTec AG, based in Hennef/Germany, manufacturer of customised special solutions for LED plant lighting systems, especially for sports arenas, and RA Turf Lighting Solutions AS,(TLS) manufacturer of mobile turf lighting and turf management systems from Stavanger/Norway, today announce their merger.