The field of synthetic turf manufacturers is getting larger as the industry continues to expand. The difficulty is making a distinction between the products produced by each of these companies, deciding on one product over another. The only way to do this, really is to make a comparison between the products themselves.

Listed below is a list of ten synthetic turf manufacturers from around the world. Perhaps the choice you make will depend on their location or perhaps the specific materials used in the creation of their synthetic turf product will make the difference. Whatever it is you can use this listing to start your hunt for a suitable synthetic turf product.

FieldTurf - this is a US-based company that provides a lot of high-profile venues with synthetic turf. Sports suitable for using their product includes football, soccer, baseball, softball, lacrosse, rugby and field hockey.

ACT Global Sports - a major synthetic turf manufacturer that produces quality artificial grass surfaces for many different kinds of sporting applications. Some of the sports for which the company’s products are currently in use include soccer, football, golf, tennis, hockey and other multi-purpose arenas.

Challenger Industries - a US-based company that produces a product call DURAPlay which are suitable for either indoor or outdoor sporting facilities. The applications listed on the site include batting cages, tennis courts, miniature golf courses and sports performance facilities.

GreenTech - this is the company that provided products for the Birds Nest Stadium in Beijing and the Olympic Stadium in Athens. The ITM product produced by GreenTech is used for both multi-use and permanent sporting venues.

ProGreen - ProGreen provides sports surfaces under the name Synthetic Surfaces Direct. The company is based out of Denver, Colorado and also provides synthetic turf for golf greens and tennis courts. It is one of the oldest synthetic turf in the industry to be operating under the same name.

NovaGrass International - specializing in golf applications the company manufactures and distributes a product known as Novagrasse that is made incorporating renewable recycled industrial products. Also available is a range of synthetic grass tennis court surfaces.

GeoTurf - under it’s brand name Geo Safe Play, Geo Turf provides one of the most eco-friendly synthetic turf products available. GeoTurf has qualified for the FIFA Preferred Producer initiative and is helping to deliver a higher quality soccer turf. GeoTurf is used in many soccer stadiums around the world as well as football, baseball and tennis. GeoTurf has been endorsed by the Green Energy Council for its eco-friendly products.

Sprinturf - produces and supplies a product marketed as Ultrablade MM, a two-tone dual fiber system that combines mulitple monofilament fibers into a single durable system. Sprinturf provides synthetic turf for football, soccer, baseball, rugby, lacrosse and golf. Much more information is availble on the website.

Tiger Turf – a UK based synthetic turf company catering to sports such as soccer, rugby, hockey, tennis as well as multi-use arenas. An extensive website can tell you a lot more about Tiger Turf Worldwide.

PolyTurf - another global company that is a division of World Recycling Surfacing Group. The product development and distribution company makes strong claims to the eco-friendly nature of its products that are suitable for soccer, football, golf, tennis, hockey and other multi-purpose arenas.

It should be made clear most, if not all of the companies mentioned above also manufacture residential synthetic grass. The focus of this article is more on the sporting surfaces available. All of the companies feature in the installation of a majority of the large stadium installations around the world. Some of them focus more completely on their eco-friendly nature although all of them will tell you that they are environmentally conscious.