Sports Flooring Market Hitting the Ground Running with Performance Materials

The global sports flooring market is reportedly expected to be worth over US$19.5 billion by 2030. Part of this demand will of course be for safer and more resilient flooring. The shopping list, however, may well extend much further to a demand for qualities better associated with ‘performance materials’ – qualities such as noise damping, improved shock absorption and even athlete performance enhancement.

The trend towards higher-performance sports flooring has been gathering pace for a number of years. It is for this reason that rubber flooring and similar synthetics have gained popularity as gym flooring, replacing traditional wood and other hard sports floors. The more elastic flooring is better able to shock-absorb against falls and high-impact exercise, as well as dampen noise – gyms and sports facilities are notoriously noisy places.