The Worlds Best Performance Sports Flooring

Nellakir are the exclusive distributors for Australasian Sports Floors Horner and Horner Flooring. For Nellakir’s clients and customers this means access to the worlds best performance flooring.

High performance Sports Flooring for competition basketball courts

ASF and Horner Flooring was selected and utilised at a range of prestigious basketball competitions conducted at the very highest levels. These have included the Olympic Games – both Sydney 2000 and the previous Los Angeles Championships of Basketball, the World university Games, the PAN American Games, the Goodwill Games, the European Championships and since 1983 every NCAA Final Four Games and NBA All Stars Games.

It is obvious that the surface provided is in fact the very best, most technologically advanced playing surface available to major competition basketball worldwide.

As Distributors for ASF/Horner, Nellakir is the only manufacturer and supplier of genuine FIBA approved Timber Sports Flooring systems.

Flooring systems are both ‘sustainable’ and carry ‘Forestry Certification’ on all flooring.

The timbers used are selected from natural resources (forests) with the appropriate growth patterns to sustain both the usage of these resources and the ongoing harvesting of selected timbers. This is called ‘long growth forestry’. Timber flooring utilising this system is labelled PRS and ST offering a range of flooring. Forestry Certified Flooring provides a complete, certified history of any hardwood surface selected and supplied to Nellakir clients.

Timber Sports Flooring Systems

Stump Thrust timber sports flooring system at the State Netball & Hockey Centre by Nellakir Sports Floors

Nellakir offer the full ASF Horner range of sports flooring. These are branded as follows:

• Pro King – preferred and used by many NBA, NBL and IFNA teams. This is the surface used in the Sydney Olympics and in NBA, IFNA matches now.
• PR Systems – there are three PR cushion systems available each offering a surface that is shock absorbing and fatigue reducing.
• ST Systems – this is the ‘Stump Thrust Floor system’. When combined with the PR™, Stump™ or Thrust-A-Cushion™ pads, the system provides the highest level of player comfort for this type of construction.

The Stump Thrust™ system has been utilised at Victoria’s State Netball and Hockey Centre, the Waverly Netball Centre, Loretto College and the Veneto Club by Nellakir.

Nellakir installed high performance timber sports floor playing surfaces as well as retractable seating at the State Netball & Hockey Centre

Over the coming months Nellakir will provide more information and detail in these news bulletins and blogs for all prospective and current users on different floor types, the benefits and maintenance required . but rest assured that in selecting Nellakir to construct and maintain your competition courts with sprung timber sports flooring, you are engaging the industry’s leading craftsmen who will provide you, your competition and your participants with the very best surface available – for the life of that surface when expertly maintained.

Casey Regional Basketball and Netball Facility

The Casey Regional Basketball and Netball facility Sports Flooring Construction has now commenced.

Sprung Timber Sports Flooring by Nellakir

“Nellakir – Master Craftsmen – For Expert Construction and Programmed Maintenance of All Sports Flooring”

At the highest level of competition there is only one acceptable surface for a Basketball, Netball or Volleyball Court – Sprung Timber Flooring.

Nellakir – The Sports Flooring for Champions

And now Victoria (and Tasmania’s) leading supplier of competition timber sports flooring, Nellakir, is about to commence its newest project – the Casey Regional Basketball and Netball facility in Cranbourne East. This is a combined funding effort by the Victorian State Government, the City of Casey and the Casey Basketball Association.

The overall project builders, Devco, have contracted Nellakir, the leading sports flooring construction company in Victoria, to complete 5 new courts. Each court is competition regulation compliant using Victorian Ash as its sprung timber flooring. Nellakir are recognised as Victoria and Tasmania’s leading suppliers and master craftsmen in the construction of sprung timber sports flooring

With these 5 new courts, this provides 10 courts in total at the facility. The South East corridor is Victoria’s fastest growing suburban corridor with many young families and students living, working and studying there. Sport provides a unique and rewarding pathway to adulthood for many young people. Basketball is appealing across the many ethnicities and cultural groupings that make up the population of Casey.

These courts will be FIBA (International Basketball Federation) certified. The new facility will feature a Premier Show Court with seating for 1500 people. The targeted completion date will be during February 2017.

FIBA Certified, Sprung Timber Basketball Court Construction

With more space, the Casey Basketball Association can plan for greater competitions and higher participation over coming years.

Casey Council estimates over 750,000 visitors will use the new facility every year. The association has scheduled the first competition tournament to be held on the new courts at the facility over the Labour Day Weekend of 2017.

With Junior and Domestic competitions all the way through to the Casey Cavaliers Big V teams, competitors from across the entire South East region of Melbourne are excitedly anticipating the completion and opening of the $18 million complex in early 2017.