What is the backing for artificial grass?
As we all know, The artificial grass backing is the cloth and latex to hold the blade in place. Those make turf firmer, durable. More backing layers will protect the grass against shrinking and the blade falling off.
In this article, I will share some types of artificial grass backing from Detron artificial grass manufacturers.
Artificial grass backing has 2 parts: basic cloth and latex.
Basic cloth: No Woven PP cloth, and PP Net.
Basic cloth in which we need to knit the monofilament.
There have different layers depending on various qualities and applications.
1, Single layer.
A single layer usually uses on 8~15mm grass, just use one PP cloth layer.
2, Double layers.
Double layers belong to the regular type. Apply to 20~50mm height grass, use PP cloth, and PP NET.
3, Other layers.
To make grass stronger, and increase pull-out force, some manufacturers add more back support layers for turf, more layers of cloth will make grass stronger if it is true. I think it depends on the height of the blade. Just imagine, if 20mm grass has three layers, how cumbersome!
Latex: SBR and PU.
Latex is a coating material for grass. The lack of backing affects the structure of the grass over a prolonged period of time. There are two types of latex commonly used, one is SBR, and the other is PU.
1, SBR is a regular latex for grass
it is used by many factories in China. Detron Turf imported Dow or BASF latex as our coating material, which means every piece of turf we produced is totally environmentally friendly.
2, PU is upgraded for rich demand
In recent years, many clients purchase PU backing grass, PU backing has superior features compared with SBR, but costs are relatively high. I will share details in another article.
3, Other latex
Both SBR and PU can not be completely recycled, Detron turf is devoted to researching new materials for coating use, in order to meet the basis of recyclability and assurance quality.
Here is a mind map to help us know it better.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email us:
info@artificialgrassmfg.com .
We are happy to meet you on the choices we have made for the production process.