Since 1989, Sint Roc has been making history in sport climbing in Italy and beyond, both indoor and outdoor. Its mission is to provide customers with the highest standards in terms of both quality and safety.

Sport climbing was originally an outdoor sport practised on natural rock faces; at the end of the last century, it became an urban sport, to be practised safely in spaces that mimic the rock climbing experience as closely as possible.

Following the widespread popularity of indoor climbing gyms, the new preferences of the modern user led to the creation of artificial walls outdoors, initially as an additional offering and then increasingly as an added value to the sporting experience, now an essential element for every new facility.

Naturally, structures exposed to the elements require structural calculations and material characteristics that also take specific environmental conditions into account.

Sint Roc uses 18 mm plywood panels with double-layer resin and 0.1/0.4 quartz sand coating, with a grid of 32 M10 threaded inserts per square metre. While 11-layer birch plywood with galvanised inserts for bolt holds is used for indoor use, marine plywood with fungus and mould-resistant wood is used for outdoor use. The flat shapes and high density of threaded holes for fixing climbing holds characteristic of multilayer panels allow for great flexibility and variety in the layout of climbing routes.

Compared to fibreglass composite panels, especially when exposed to the sun, the resistance is similar if not superior.

For the textured coating of the panels, polyurethane resin for outdoor use is preferred over the epoxy resin used for indoor panelling: the latter, when exposed to direct sunlight, tends to “crumble” after a few years, releasing the aggregate and causing the structure to lose its grainy texture.

Sint Roc has built several outdoor facilities, initially in Germany and Switzerland, but in recent years increasingly in Italy as well, both for gyms and temporary installations.

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