Ten Cate Thiolon B.v.

Frank Pfeiffer

Niels Gerhardus Kolkman

Marinus Hendrikus Olde Weghuis

Frederik Jan Van Der Gaag

Bart Wijers

Hermannus Hendrik Jager

Gerjan Van Voorst

A fibre for use in artificial turf has an elongate cross-sectional shape defining a first face and a second face that meet at side edges of the fibre. The first and second faces having respective first and second ridges that are offset with respect to each other, such that the cross-sectional shape is 2-fold rotationally symmetric with no reflectional symmetry. The fibre may be an extruded monofilament and shows improved resilience over symmetrical fibres of similar dimensions.

Split resistant fibre

An artificial turf system comprises a resilient layer, an artificial grass layer comprising a substrate and pile fibers upstanding from the substrate and an infill layer. The infill layer comprises smooth, hard granules having a mean size of between 1.8 mm and 10 mm disposed on the substrate and interspersed between the pile fibers. The smooth, hard granules provide improved characteristics in terms of foot release.

Artificial turf system

Artificial grass blade

The invention relates to a composite artificial grass fiber for use in an artificial lawn, in particular an artificial grass sports field, which artificial grass fiber is made up at least of several monofilament fibers. The invention further relates to an artificial lawn, in particular an artificial grass sports field built up of a substrate to which composite artificial grass fibers according to the invention are attached. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a composite artificial grass fiber according to the invention, in particular for an artificial lawn, which comprises the steps of manufacturing several monofilament fibers and forming said several monofilament fibers into a composite artificial grass fiber. The object of the invention is to provide a composite artificial grass fiber as well as an artificial grass sports field comprising such an artificial grass fiber, which makes it possible to apply and distribute infill material between the composite fibers in a simpler manner without the eventual playing characteristics of the artificial grass sports field being adversely affected. According to the invention, the artificial grass fiber is to that end characterized in that the artificial grass fiber further comprises an additive made of a decomposable material, which holds said several monofilament fibers together temporarily.

Composite artificial grass and method for manufacturing same

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Frank Pfeiffer