The Origin of Artificial Turf
In the 1960s, the United States started to develop and manufacture artificial turf. The turf was firstly installed in rugby fields. Soon, it widely used in soccer fields, baseball fields, and football fields. In the 1980s, the rest of the world began to accept artificial turf. Until the beginning of the twenty-first century, artificial turf began to enter the Chinese market, and was well accepted and developed rapidly.

Advantages of artificial turf

All-weather Property
Artificial turf is free from the limitation of weather and geography. It has long service life, and can be used in extreme climate areas, such as cold areas at high altitude, high temperature areas, and highlands.

Simulation
Artificial turf is developed and manufactured based on the bionics. It has good simulation, and can provide a comfortable and safe environment for players. Furthermore, the foot feeling and the ball's rebound speed of artificial turf are similar to those of natural grass.

Installation and Maintenance
Artificial turf has low demands towards groundwork. It can be installed on asphalt floor and cement floor within a short period. It features easy maintenance, durability and good water permeability, and is particularly suitable for the stadiums of schools which are in highly frequency use.

Multi-purposes
Artificial turf is available in various colors. It is non-fading and durable, and can be used to decorate stadiums, leisure courtyards, roof gardens and more. Besides, filled with silver quartz sand, the turf is very clean. People can sit on it.

Physicochemical Properties
After hundreds of thousands of wear tests, artificial turf only loses about 2-3% of its fibre weight. Having good water permeability, artificial turf can drain water off within 20 minutes after a heavy rain. Besides, the turf is non-fading, and has good elasticity, flexibility, anti-aging, and wear resistance.

Safety
Artificial turf can effectively protect the muscle, ligament, and joint of players. It can reduce impact force and friction force of players when they fall down. Besides, artificial turf is environmental friendly and sound-absorbing. It can be effectively recycled and has no harmful content.

Application of artificial turf
Artificial turf can be widely used in such places, including soccer fields, tennis courts, basketball courts, golf courses, hockey fields, building roofs, swimming pool, courtyards, kinder-gardens, hotels and more.

Structure chart of the complete artificial turf

Application of artificial turf in soccer fields
In the early start, artificial turf was not designed for football. It was used to overcome the limitations of the natural lawn. Later, the manufacturers began to produce the specialized football turf. Thus, artificial turf emerged in soccer fields.

The basic manufacturing method of the first generation of artificial turf is to glue or weave the fiber mixture similar to natural grass on the bottom backings of sand or rubber particles.

After more than ten years of development, artificial turf has been improved a lot. The properties of high-end artificial turf are similar to those of natural lawn. Furthermore, the artificial turf can be used for whole days. It has advantages of anti-static, good elasticity, durability, and more.

From the seasons of 2005 to 2006, Union of European Football Associations starts to allow the competitions to play on the artificial turf. Hence, the competitions of European Cup, UEFA Cup can be held in artificial turf. Later on, the International Football Federation (FIFA) had announced that the 2006 World Cup qualifiers could be held on artificial turf. But FIFA requested that the matches played on artificial turf should be announced two months in advance, and allow the visiting team to train on the artificial turf field at least twice.

Both FIFA and UEFA have approved the high quality artificial turf can be used in all formal competitions of different levels except the World Cup finals (See table 34). Hence, many top football clubs decided to use the high quality artificial turf of football field.
Natural turf can be used in competitions at any levels. However, in bad weather, the skills and tactics of football players will be influenced in playing. Besides, in some extreme climate regions, natural turf is not easy to form and maintain. Therefore, artificial turf's superiority appears.

In the construction of football field, the enough sunshine, rain and wind must be considered in the design project to meet the growing needs of natural lawn. But the current stadium with roof structures is more suitable to be installed with artificial turf.

Meanwhile, in artificial turf soccer field, the most attractive actions of players such as starting, dead-stop, turning, interception, sliding tackle, beyond and so on will not be affected by the climate changes.

In the high quality artificial turf field, the players can make all sorts of action without worry about physical damage. Meanwhile, the good artificial turf field infilled by rubber particles can make shoes have better grasping function and help the players to finish all kinds of difficult actions at will.

The high quality artificial turf fields possess the characteristics of natural lawn and enable the players to enjoy a safe and comfortable competition condition. As a result of low maintenance cost and wide application, artificial turf obtains a rapid development.

Catalogue

Product	Technical Characteristics	Playing Characteristics	Warranty	Note
TFH30-75mm	1. Fibre: fibrillated 2. Color: verde, olive, red, yellow, white, blue 3. Dtex: 8800/1 or 11000/1 4. Infill: sand and rubber	1. UV Resistance 2. Durability, soft touch, high shock absorption 3. Skin-friendly in sliding tackles 4. Suitable for every weather	8 years	High-grade turf, Suitable for football clubs, universities, stadiums.
TFM30-75mm	1. Fibre: fibrillated 2. Color: verde, olive 3. Denier (Dtex):8800/1or11000/1 4. Infill: sand and rubber	1. Durability 2. Comfortable and safe 3. Beautify the environment 4. High quality with reasonable Price	6 years	Economical turf, Cost-effective, Suitable for colleges, schools, and communities.
TMH30-75mm	1. Fibre: monofilament 2. Cross section: rectangular 3. Color: combinations of verde and olive 4.Denier (Dtex): 8800/8or11000/8 5.Infill: sand and rubber	1. Natural appearance 2. Perfect ball behaviors 3. Durability and tear resistance 4. UV Resistance 5. Skin-friendly in sliding tackles	8 years	High-grade lawn, Suitable for the landscaping, football clubs and other multi-purpose fields.
TFT30-75mm	1. fibre: Thiolon fibrillated 2. Color: verde, olive 3. Dtex:8800/1 4. Infill: sand and rubber	1. Durability and soft touch 2. Good motion performance 3. Suitable for professional competitions	8 years	High-grade turf, Suitable for football clubs, universities, and stadiums.
TMLH30-75	1. Fibre: monofilament 2. Cross section: retagular 3. Color: verde, olive 4. Dtex: 11000/8 5. Infill: sand and rubber	1. Skin-friendly in sliding tackles 2. Good motion performance 3. Durability 4. Suitable for professional sports	8 years	High-grade turf, Suitable for football clubs, universities, and stadiums.
TFLH30-75mm	1. Fibre: monofilament 2. Color: verde, olive 3. Dtex: 8800/1or11000/1 4. Infill: Sand and rubber	1. Combination of cut pile and loop pile, stability 2. High abrasion resistance 3. High playability 4. Energy saving and environmental protection	10 years	The global flagship product, Superb performance