Artificial Grass

Premanufactured tiles

Market situation

Influenced by the big artificial grass manufactures FIFA and UEFA are recommending their multi star systems as the best for playing football or similar sports and they are supporting soccer associations world wide technically and financially. Artificial grass manufactured in rolls combined with a Polyethylene fibre and pile height up to 55–60 mm will need an infill of quartz sand and rubber crumbs. This combination is meeting all technical request and specifications of FIFA and UEFA and looks quiet nice and outstanding in a start-up phase. The so called 3. generation of artificial grass will loose its playing characteristics in 2–4 years as the quartz will sink to the ground of the carpet and the biggest part of the rubber crumbs will be deposited by wind and playing on the pitches. This results that the requested technical specifications will shortly not be met anymore and therefore the total systems of this 3. generation grass will just cause problems and in addition to that creates enormous maintenance. In central Europe or countries where the manpower is expensive these pitches are nearly unaffordable. In our opinion it will be just a question of time that FIFA and UEFA will not anymore recommend such infill systems.

Our suggestion

We are offering premanufactured artificial grass tiles ready to install combined with an elastic cushion consisting of rubber crumbs meeting all requests of the international sports federations. Flexi-Grass 18 T or Flexi-Grass 35 T can be mounted directly on each existing ground as long as the ground is pervious to water and well compacted to highway contracting specifications. Tiles 2 x 1 m can be easy transported in containers and will be more practical for laying down on the sites independent of any weather conditions. Depending on the kind of sports the thickness of the elastic cushion can be varied between 25–40 mm and keeps permanently the capacity of shock absorption higher than 64 %!
Once the tiles are laid down no joints are anymore visible and the surfaces look quiet compact!

>> Datasheet Flexi-Grass 18 T
>> Datasheet Flexi-Grass 35 T

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FLEXI-GRASS PUR Pure high performance tufted or knitted GRASS-Systems for football, soccer and hockey, combined with elastic "Safety" rubber cushion, 12 - 30 mm pile height, curled nondirectional polypropylene-or nylon fibres. Surface cut, glued or spanned and stitched. Meets requirements of FIFA and FIH.
FLEXI-GRASS Pure tufted high performance polypropylene GRASS-System for football, soccer and Hockey, combined with elastic "Safety" rubber cushion, 10 or 12 mm pile height, mostly 50% of carpet surface glued to subbase, all seams glued and reinforced by polyester tape. Meets requirements of FIFA and FIH.
FLEXI-TURF C New generation of slightly sandfilled, tufed polypropylene grass, curled fibres, pile height 10 mm. Designed as a multipurpose surfacing for Tennis, around swimming pools and other receational activites. Loosely layed with cut, glued and reinforced seams.