NFL executive Jeff Miller has said that the league has the intention of minimizing the number of different playing surfaces so they feel similar across all venues. Miller, who runs both health and saf...
The European Standards Committee (CEN) has harmonised the way performance and durability for shockpads and e-layers throughout Europe should be specified. In doing so, buyers and specifiers of synthet...
Assessing the possible risk of skin injuries on synthetic turf has come one step closer. Four World Rugby certified test institutes recently held a round robin to determine the replicability of a test...
The NFL Players Association says that the dataset used by the NFL to claim that synthetic turf surfaces are as safe as natural turf surfaces does not reflect the whole picture. The NFLPA calls the dat...
Spectators of the 57th Super Bowl game at the State Farm stadium have blasted the grounds care team for the poor surface....
‘TestbedNordic’ has completed its first cycle of testing and monitoring of four small-sided football fields in Solna, Sweden. The innovation in the first cycle was new environmentally friendly perform...
The NFL Players Association is filing a grievance against the NFL and the Carolina Panthers for the hardness of the synthetic turf at Bank of America Stadium in the Dec. 24 game between the Panthers a...
Slit-film synthetic turf surfaces should be banned from American Football, claims the association that protects the interest of NFL players. They claim slit-film surfaces have a statistically higher i...
The debate about the sliding friendliness of synthetic turf will soon become more scientific with the introduction of a test apparatus and adoption of a testing protocol to establish the sliding chara...
A team of British and Canadian researchers has concluded that injury incidence rates between synthetic turf, hybrid and grass pitches, do not significantly differ. However, they did notice differences...