Maryport's SIS Pitches has announced a new multi-million pound contract with Derby County Football Club.
The East Midlands side will use the firm's reinforced natural grass to create six new pitches at its training facilities.
SIS Pitches, based at Glasson Industrial Estate,recently won the contract for the pitch which will host the 2018 World Cup final in Moscow.
When it set out to create the ultimate playing surface in 2014, SIS Pitches tasked Dutch engineers with designing a patented ‘giant sewing machine on tracks’.
This machine methodically crawls across a pitch stitching laser guided precision rows of more than 240 million lengths of two-tone green synthetic yarn 180mm deep into the sub-surface.
George Mullan, chief executive of SIS Pitches, rescued the firm’s factory from demolition 10 years ago.
He said: "Derby are ambitious and for them to choose this product for six new pitches is a vindication of all ourhard work and innovation."
He said the grass system will eventually dominate world football and rugby with further usage in American Football and equestrian events.
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