February 17, 2020 |
Continental ensures seating comfort at major Stadiums
- Jim Hill, football fan, and Continental's head of the North American region for its business area ContiTech, stated: “We ensure comfortable seating for football fans.”
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The technology company Continental has equipped some of the largest and most important stadiums in the world with its upholstery materials – including the Hard Rock Stadium in North Miami, home of the Miami Dolphins football team. In early February it hosted one of the largest sporting events in the country, and there were hardly any empty seats in the 65,326-seat stadium. With the game lasting almost four hours, plus a halftime show, football fans spent almost a whole day in the stadium.
For them to fully enjoy the game, comfortable seats are a necessity. In the sunny state of Florida, however, comfort doesn't just mean a well-padded seat, because for around 230 days a year, the sun shines mercilessly at the stadium for hours on end. Continental developed a solution to ensure that the seats are always kept at a comfortable temperature. "We ensure comfortable seating for football fans while using a special 'cool colours’ technology,” said Jim Hill, who is a passionate fan of football and, within Continental, heads the North American region for its business area ContiTech.
“In addition to nanocoating, we use special colour pigments that reflect up to 80 percent of UV radiation in the near infrared range. The result is that the heating of the upholstery made in our Winchester, Virginia plant, is reduced by about 20 percent, and the material remains cooler than other textiles by up to 15 degrees Celsius."
Source: Continental
