Artificial turf has only been around 60 years since its emergence. It has developed rapidly around the world so far, and has even become the choice of various sports fields. From the world's competition venues to the school's multi-functional playground to the residential community's fitness activity area, all belong to the artificial lawn stage.
Artificial turf originated in the United States in the 1960s. At that time, due to weather and other objective conditions, natural turf needed to set up large-scale roofs and other coverings, which caused the difficulty of natural turf growth and maintenance. In order to cope with such situations, artificial turf was developed and quickly Applied to sports fields.
The artificial turf appeared on the field of American football earlier. Certain sports characteristics, all-weather use frequency, real grass-like appearance, and simple and convenient maintenance and subsequent cleaning made it popular from the United States to the world. And gradually used in hockey, rugby, football, tennis, golf and other sports venues.
However, since the original artificial turf was far inferior to natural turf in terms of sports characteristics, its hardness and friction made athletes vulnerable to injuries, and was once rejected by professional football venues, and even regulations prohibiting the use of artificial turf in games were issued.
The actual demand has promoted the continuous improvement of the technological content of artificial turf products, and quickly completed the replacement. Artificial grasses range from the original artificial grass with nylon fiber as the main material, no filling and poor elasticity, to polypropylene (PP) as the main material, filled with quartz sand particles, artificial grass with high hardness, and polyethylene (PE) ) Is the main material, the artificial grass filled with quartz sand and rubber particles, and then the artificial grass mixed with straight curve, PE and PP. Nowadays, the artificial grass has the sports performance similar to or even beyond the real grass.
Therefore, from July 1, 2003, FIFA-tested artificial turf was allowed to conduct official football matches. In August of the same year, a total of ten competitions at the World Youth Soccer Championship under the age of 17 used artificial turf fields for the competition, and eventually achieved success.
Since then, artificial turf has gained mainstream recognition and is increasingly used in various competitions. At present, the total global artificial turf market is 200 million square meters, and it is increasing at a rate of about 15% per year. The demand for artificial turf sites is still growing.
In addition, in addition to various sports venues that are widely used, artificial turf has been expanded to leisure fields in recent years, kindergarten artificial turf, various green landscapes, or replacement of carpets, etc. Have a wider application space.
