Most of us are already aware that there are many examples of artificial putting greens around the country that have been used by professional and social golfers for practice. It has been generally acknowledged that these artificial surfaces have been valuable training aids because the grass is very similar to real grass putting greens. Now [...]
So we all know that artificial turf is used for a good number of different sports including football, baseball, soccer, field hockey, cricket and lacrosse. All of these sports have developed well with the progress of their sport on the new technology. Recently another sport has made the switch to the artificial surface. The sport [...]
There are a number of attributes that are considered to be very important when it comes to the nature of an artificial grass surface. In this instance we are talking about the way the surface performs as a sporting surface. The sports artificial grass, also referred commonly to as artificial turf, has a primary obligation [...]
Synthetic grass is not only used for outdoor purposes, although that is where the vast majority of use takes place. Indoor synthetic grass is in use for a number of sporting purposes, providing the perfect playing surface without the accompanying problems that you hear about with the outdoor applications.
Not only is it possible to use [...]
There are a lot of new responsibilities for a groundsman who has just inherited an artificial turf pitch to care for, quite different tasks to the maintenance tasks that would have been required when the field comprised of natural grass. Not only will there be new artificial grass maintenance tasks to perform but there will [...]
The push to convert soccer pitches from natural grass to artificial turf in India has been taken up by FIFA in a bid to help develop the sport in that country. At its own cost FIFA plans to install artificial turf fields in five football grounds in India.
The top priority project is a ground in [...]
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