Artificial turf originated in the United States 50 years ago. It was first used on rugby courts, and was soon promoted and applied in other sports venues. The huge venue space owned by 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 football artificial turf uses PA (nylon) material as the main material. It has good wear resistance and weather resistance, looks like a carpet, has poor elasticity, large surface hardness, and is relatively expensive. It has no elastic layer and no sand filling. It is easy to wipe as a football grass Hurt the skin
The second-generation football artificial turf uses PP (polypropylene) as the main material, generally used as the raw material of the bent grass. The hardness of the grass is softer than that of nylon. It has stronger plasticity, a little wear resistance, and the price is more affordable. The elastic layer is filled with quartz sand particles, which is easy to scratch the skin when used as a football grass;
The third generation of artificial football turf is based on PE (polyethylene), which is also the most commonly used raw material for football grass at this stage. And there are a variety of forms such as PP + PE, PP + PA, PE + PA mixed, straight and mixed weave, and different forms of monofilament grass. The grass is soft, wear-resistant, and the price is moderate. Quartz sand and rubber Particle filling is already comparable to real grass in appearance and sports performance.
The fourth-generation football artificial turf is a change based on the traditional turf. It refers to a non-filling football turf system based on the combination of "no-filling football grass + shock-absorbing pad". This is the fourth generation of artificial turf concept first proposed by VIVATURF worldwide.
The so-called fourth-generation artificial turf is to abandon "quartz sand + rubber particles" as a filler, and adopt the "free filling football grass + shock-absorbing pad" to achieve the movement and protection of artificial turf. At the current stage of the artificial turf market, the fourth-generation artificial grass is a type of turf that is closer to real grass in terms of touch and motion, fall, sliding resistance, and rolling feedback of the ball.
