Nonfilled crisis looms

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March 13, 2023

The indiscriminate use of definitions to refer to new synthetic turf products that don’t contain any performance infill is a recipe for disaster.

By: Guy Oldenkotte

Over the past few months, Sportsfields.info has attended product introductions and forum discussions regarding so-called nonfilled synthetic turf products, throughout Europe.

At virtually every event, potential buyers and suppliers consistently referred to products without performance infill as a nonfilled surface.

However, 9 out of 10 times, the product didn’t warrant to be called as such, putting buyers and tender specifiers in a predicament if they cannot consciously describe the product they want to have delivered.

What is a non-filled surface?

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