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In Italy at the Pista del Sole, Francesco Cima worked on a better version of Count Aquaderni’s original concept, but before he managed to convince others on the changes which were needed to improve the matting surface, he created a new one by himself using different materials – only plastic - and a newly designed structure.

Cima went on to produced his own surface and put it on the hill. He then began building ski-lifts, a chalet used as a restaurant, a conference hall and a club house. Then followed tennis courts, a skating rink and a swimming pool. The resort was completely illuminated and offered horse rides, a roofed swimming pool, curling, baby-bob, running track, ski jumping spring-board and a cross country ski ring.

Years of tests have been done on the products created by Cima they have also been used for competitions ranging from the World Ski on Plastic Championships to simple competitions for children. Unhappy with the initial results, Francesco Cima studied and developed nine different models of his product.

His great passion, his sports experience and the support of many internationally known athletes who have evaluated the product over the years, have contributed to the current 500m slope. In Italy Snowsun, the company which still operates the Pista de Sole, has today developed four different products on the basis of the experience and successes obtained by the product in over 40 years of testing. The SOL/S 40 is for alpine ski, carving, snowboard and telemark; the SOL/S 60 for nordic ski and ski jumping; the. SOL/S 80 for use beneath ski-lifts and chair-lifts and the newest SOL/S T for snow-tubing

Each company naturally believes that its product is the best, questioning its competitors on grounds of cost, safety, durability and realism of the sliding experience compared to snow.