As the artificial grass and synthetic turf becoming more and more popular, many sport fields and gardens using artificial grass turf as surfacing materials. But it still a little difficult for the people who plan to buy artificial grass first time. They send enquiries to local or abroad suppliers and get many emails with pictures and technique data. But which one is the right model for their applications and how to choose a quality artificial grass turf products? And what do those technique data mean?

Firstly let us explain the basic technique data you will find at our artificial grass turf products website www.arturf.com. That will help you to read our product pages and take you go further to the artificial grass turf systems.

Basic Technique Data:

Pile height: the height of the pile (the carpet of yarn on top of the artificial grass backing.), usually measured in millimeter (mm)
Dtex: a manufacturing term relating to artificial grass turf yarn measurement; an abbreviation of Decitex, it is the unit of the linear density of continuous yarn – equal to 0.90 of a denier or 0.10 of a tex.
Stitch rate: number of artificial grass turf stitches per 100cm in line direction.
Gauge: The distance between two adjacent lines, usually using “inch” as unit.
Density: Numbers of stitches per square meters.
Backing: Mostly it means second backing on our website or sample label.

The above technical data just descript some primary characteristics. In these parameters, Pile height, gauge could be easily measured by a common ruler. And density could be calculated by the two parameters as mentioned before. For example, if the gauge of one artificial grass turf is 3/8 inch (means in one meter length there are 105 lines,), stitch rate is 140stitches/m, so the density of this model of artificial grass turf is 14700 stitches/ m2. See the Pictures bellow:

Count how many stitches in 10cm

Measure the distance between two lines

The first picture: count how many stitches in 10cm. Can find there are 14 stitches in 10cm that means 140 stitches in 100cm (1m)
The second picture: measure the distance between two lines. It is 3/8inch of that model. That means there are 105 lines in 1m.
So you can calculate the density. It is 140*105=14700 stitches/m2

It is easy to count the stitches but a little difficult to get a gauge data like 3/4inch, 3/8inch or 5/8 inch. In fact, gauge depends on the machine. Many tufter (Artificial grass tufting machine) said they are made in a full range of different gauges, but in practice most factories fixed their specific machine to one gauge and they use different machines to produce artificial grass with different gauges. The common gauges are 3/4inch, 3/8inch, 5/8inch, 3/16inch, 5/32inch and 1/2inch.

What kind of synthetic turf should be used for your applications will be largely decide by the pile height and density. For example, football fields require the artificial grass turf between 30mm-70mm, mostly 50mm, and tennis courts require the artificial turf between 10mm-20mm with high density.

You can find more information our website www.arturf.com to learn the artificial grass. You can also contact us directly and our experienced representative will give you more details. Anyhow, before make a decision, we highly suggest you ask some samples from your supplier, comparing the quality and price.