Artificial turf originated in the United States 50 years ago. It was first used on rugby grounds, and soon it was promoted and applied in other sports venues. The huge space of football as a major sport in the world has undoubtedly become an important battlefield for artificial turf. . The development of football grass artificial turf has gone through four stages so far.
The first generation of football artificial turf is made of PA (nylon) material as the main material. It has good wear resistance and weather resistance, similar appearance to carpet, poor elasticity, high surface hardness, high price, no elastic layer, no sand filling, easy to wipe as a soccer grass. Injury the skin;
The second-generation football artificial turf is made of PP (polypropylene) as the main material. Generally, it is used as the raw material of koji grass. The hardness of the grass is softer than that of nylon. It has stronger plasticity, and the wear resistance is slightly worse. The price is more affordable. Elastic layer, filled with quartz sand particles, used as a soccer grass to easily scratch the skin;
The third-generation football artificial turf is based on PE (polyethylene), which is also the type of straw material commonly used in football grass at this stage. And there are PP + PE, PP + PA, PE + PA mixed, straight curved mixed weaving, and different forms of monofilament grass and other forms, grass silk soft, good wear resistance, moderate price, using quartz sand and rubber Particle filling is already comparable to real grass in terms of appearance and athletic performance.
The fourth-generation football artificial turf is based on a change in the traditional lawn, which refers to the free-filled football turf system with a combination of “free-filled football grass + cushion”. This is the fourth generation of artificial turf concept that VIVATURF first proposed on a global scale.
The so-called fourth-generation artificial turf is to abandon the "quartz sand + rubber particles" as a filler, and the "free-filled football grass + cushion" to achieve the movement and protection of artificial turf. At the current artificial turf market, the fourth generation of artificial grass is a type of turf that is closer to real grass, whether it is touch or motion, fall, sliding resistance and rolling feedback of the ball.
