Artificial Turf: How It’s Made

Like many products in our advancing industrial age, artificial grass is made up of an array of varying raw materials. The backing material for the artificial grass sections is often made from materials such as plastic, polyester, or nylon. It can be made of almost anything that can be used for carpet backing, including rubber material. The components used to create the grass blades also varies greatly and includes synthetic materials such as polypropylene, polyethylene, and nylon.

Polypropylene and polyethylene are plastic materials often used in a multitude of common products, such as food packaging and labeling and various textile productions. The materials are blended with appropriate dyes in order to reach the desired color and aesthetic appeal of grass:

• The varying raw materials and dyes are blended together and pulled into yarn-like strands.
• The strands are the heated and twisted, giving them a look that is more similar to natural grass.
• They are then pulled and looped through the backing material in order to create a realistic grass-like pattern that is both durable and safe to the touch.
• The manufacturing process of artificial turf is similar to the manufacturing process of carpet.