Artificial Turf

Learn about commercial synthetic outdoor & indoor artificial turf, how and why artificial grass sports surfacing is used in top athletic training facilities, health clubs, gyms, and fitness facilities.

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Artificial turf has been used in sports conditioning programs for many years. Advancements in synthetic fiber manufacturing have made both outdoor and indoor artificial turf much more resilient. Artificial grass surfacing is a viable choice for sports, strength and conditioning facilities. In fact, health clubs, and fitness facilities now include synthetic grass as a surfacing solution to aid coaches, and trainers in sports specific exercise programming for student-athletes, personal training, group training participants and members.

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Synthetic Grass?

Synthetic grass or artificial turf is classified by manufactures based on specifications that define field turf quality, durability, and practical applications. Turf isn’t used just for the show. Artificial grass allows trainers and coaches to recreate training experiences executed on the field, whether indoors or outdoors. As we’ve outlined below in the specifications section, our artificial grass is manufactured to withstand regular exercise patterns performed on real grass without the negative effects of regular training.

Typical exercise patterns repeated on our outdoor or indoor turf include zoned running drills (during which excessive torque and friction affect the turf surface because of direction change), sprinting, loaded exercise modalities like sled pushing or pulling, bounding, plyometric exercise, and hundreds of other exercises that cause people to create a lot of friction on the surface of our turf. People familiar with sports surfacing can easily identify with typical demands facing artificial turf and active surfacing. Athletes and people training for sports performance results exercise very hard, and they aren’t too easy on the ground, sports, or active surfaces – that’s why our artificial turf simply performs as well as it should.

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Training on Real Grass vs. Artificial Turf

On real grass, regular performance training – especially repeated exercise patterns – actually destroys real grass and leaves a mess for coaches and trainers to manage. Sun, rain, repeated stomping, jumping, running, scuffing, and friction to the grass surface causes a lot of damage. Unlike real grass, our artificial grass or artificial turf is constructed to withstand all weather elements outdoors, and sun due to UV exposure. Our outdoor turf can be installed on a prepared foundation to replace the need for training on real grass – and it lasts much longer with a durable, life-like grass appearance.

To really heat things up, you’ve got to experience how our indoor turf stands up to fitness, and sports performance training. Rather than simply running up and down on the carpet – which tears up quickly – we see remarkable improvements in participant results from training due to the benchmarking capabilities inherently designed into our indoor artificial turf. Again, as you can see in the specifications described on this page – our indoor turf is manufactured to meet very high demands. Our indoor artificial turf is very strong, and it has flexibility built into the backing and yarn construction.

This gives the turf a very natural, realistic grass appearance. Student-athletes, fitness enthusiasts, athletic coaches, and personal trainers agree that the look and feel of the grass are similar to real grass – without the mess! The resistance is much less than other products because of the stitching density and polyurethane finishing, which offers less drag than latex finishing, and lower stitch counts per meter squared. Our turf is created with very strong, and resilient texturized monofilament yarn stitched at least eighty-three thousand to eighty-four thousand stitches per meter squared. It really is an industry-leading artificial turf solution.

There are 5 basic specifications that are measured and considered to help people to evaluate the quality and composition of artificial turf. Please note the information on the construction, and specifications of our synthetic turf. Please refer to the data below.

Artificial Turf Specifications | Yarn › Tufting › Backing › Finishing › Final Dimensions

Yarn Specifications

Our turf is comprised of synthetic yarn, graded by type, composition, color, units of linear density (decitex or dtex), and weight. The yarn type of our outdoor and indoor turf is texturized monofilament. Its composition is polyethylene. We offer green, red (brick), and blue colored turf. The yarn density (unit of measure known as decitex or dtex) of our artificial turf yarn filament is 5.5 – this is a high standard of density. Density is important because the field turf fibers will need to endure a high level of repetitive usage. The correct density of the yarn used in its turf must be elastic, yet remain standing to maintain its appearance and withstand regular wear from athletic training.

Tufting Specifications

Tufting is a process by which the yarn is grouped or inserted through the turf backing. The gauge of tufting in our artificial turf ranges between 3/16mm to 1/7mm. The pile height ranges between 11mm (1.1cm) and 16mm (1.6cm). The stitches are counted in meter squared or feet squared, and the stitch count of our artificial field turf ranges by-product from 83,000 stitches per meter squared (m²) or 83M in 10.76 ft² to 84,000 stitches per meter squared (m²) or 84M per 10.7 ft². The tufting process must insure uniform high density in stitching to offer for the turf surface to remain strong.

Tufting finishing of our turf is cut-pile. It’s important to consider the finishing type of the texturized monofilament yarn. Cut pile and loop manufacturing processes are very different. In a loop constructed process the yarn is passed through the backing, tufted within specific gauge values, and looped at the top. Cut pile construction is level cut at the exposed end to prevent snagging of the yarn.

Backing Specifications

The primary backing of our artificial turf holds the synthetic texturized monofilament yarn in place. Yarn is attached through the primary backing creating the uniform artificial turf surface. Our field turf is constructed using a reinforced fleece primary backing. The primary backing material is composed of polypropylene, and weighs 165 gr/m² (5.82 oz. per 10.7ft²).

Finishing Specifications

The finishing composition is polyurethane, and ranges in type. The cushioning type is either foam (custom turf) or scraper (standard turf). Its weight is 165 gr/m² (5.82 oz. per 10.7ft²). The height is 6mm (.24 inches). The weight of finishing is 2 gr/m² (2 grams per 10.7ft²).

Final Dimensions

The final product specifications for our first line of artificial field turf is 11mm in height, weighs 2.29 grams per meter squared, available in rolls 2 meters by 10 meters and 2 meters by 15 meters. Our custom artificial turf is 22mm in height, weighs 8.74 pounds per meter squared, and our turf is available in rolls 2m x custom length.

Would you like to learn more about our artificial grass & field turf solutions?

If you are responsible for operating a health club, gym, training, exercise or fitness facility and you would like to learn more about our artificial grass and custom field turf solutions, please contact us today.

After you contact us – don’t forget, we can support your facility, personal training, and group exercise programs. Yes, it’s free – always. Simply click on the blue triangle, above to the right, to register the exercise professionals responsible for working with your members and guests.

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artificial turf was last modified: October 8th, 2019 by Derek Curtice