Europe’s leading snooker and pool cloth manufacturer, Milliken, has re-affirmed its commitment to pool in the shape of a new three-year deal that will see the Strachan 6811 brand featuring on pool tables at most major events.

And with nearly £300,000 to play for in 2006, eightball pool players are keen to see the new season get underway as the sport continues to develop at the junior through to professional level.

The new contract will take Milliken’s association with the professional and amateur game up to 15 years and, according to the professionals’ chairman, George Harwood of the International Professional Poolplayers Association, it provides pool with quality and consistency where it’s needed.

“All players from amateurs through to our top professionals have become used to playing on top quality cloth from Strachan and high quality tables from Supreme. It is good to know that you can trust both to perform at the highest level with utmost consistency.”