Ten Cate Thiolon B.v.

Niels Gerhardus Kolkman

Frank Pfeiffer

Bart Wijers

Hein Anton Heerink

Gerjan Van Voorst

Colin Young

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

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Nijverdal, Netherlands

Niels Gerhardus Kolkman