A Brief History of Artificial Turf

In April 1966, Houston's Space Dome Stadium, the largest indoor stadium at the time, was quietly awaiting the start of the baseball league as usual. But before the game, Chemstrand laid the world's first artificial turf - "Astro turf" - on the baseball field, and since then, artificial turf has been on the world stage and in the spotlight. With the successful use of artificial turf in the Space Dome, artificial turf became popular for major sporting events in North America. Next, we will introduce the four stages of artificial turf development.

Here is the content list:

• Astro grass

• Polyethylene Artificial Grass

• Synthetic Turf

• New era turf

Astro grass

The first stage of artificial grass is represented by "Astro grass". It is mainly made of nylon which is drawn and woven on the base fabric without any added infill. This stage of artificial grass has strong wear resistance and can withstand tens of thousands of times friction without changing shape. But the problem is that this artificial grass is very hard. It is easy to burn the skin when people play on this kind of turf. And the elasticity of the whole artificial turf is very poor, in a sense, we call the first stage of artificial turf products "carpet products" not too much. In addition, the price of artificial turf made of nylon is also very high.

Polyethylene Artificial Grass

As artificial turf evolved, it was discovered that polypropylene could be used instead of nylon to produce artificial grass yarns. Artificial turf ushered in the second stage of development. The new material had high strength and excellent elasticity, and the cost was greatly reduced compared to nylon. Although the second stage of artificial turf has improved to some extent in various properties such as cost, softness, and hardness of the grass and resilience of the turf, the defects of hardness, lack of elasticity, poor weather resistance, and easy-to-burn skin are still obvious.

Synthetic Turf

Around the 1970s, linear low-density polyethylene was developed, which has better impact strength, puncture resistance, tensile strength, and environmental stress cracking resistance. The softness of artificial grass strands at this stage was a quantum leap compared to nylon and polyethylene. The artificial grass has a soft texture, good cushioning performance, and less harm to athletes, which can be very close to the performance of natural grass.

New era turf

The fourth stage of artificial grass products, in the case that has completely satisfied the basic use of sports grounds, people's research on artificial grass towards high standards, high requirements, functional, environmental protection, and recyclable direction. At this stage, in addition to single mesh as well as monofilament products, there are also products such as straight and curved hybrid products, materials such as PE and PP hybrid, and PE and nylon hybrid, in these products to lay monofilament grass mainly, the pursuit of excellent sports performance, with curly wire use, supplemented by a more desirable appearance, in order to close to safety, leisure and other sports needs.

The above is the development process of artificial turf. In the future, artificial grass will move forward in the direction of more safety and convenience. If you need artificial turf, you can pay attention to Shandong Qingyuan Sports Facilities Co. Ltd, which is dedicated to the research and production of artificial grass. We will definitely have a product that meets your needs.