“You don’t have to maintain it, it is more uniform surface during bad weather, you don’t slip as much, you don’t have divots or standing water, and, in fact, the only negative work we had was from the Cal quarterback who said it didn’t taste very good after we’d sacked him so many times.”
Bill Byrne, Athletic Director, Nebraska University.
Product Overview
An Idea That Changed An Entire Industry
The FieldTurf concept is simple. The best surface for athletic contests - American football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, and softball - is good natural grass. And synthetic turf should be like grass, not carpet. FieldTurf’s inventors were sportsmen - not carpet makers. Former players and coaches, not turf salesmen. They approached the challenge from a completely different perspective. They wanted to develop a synthetic system that offered the beneficial biomechanical properties of natural grass, combined with the best attributes of a durable synthetic system: all-weather playability, low maintenance, and unlimited playing time.
The idea was simple. Looks Like Grass… Feels Like Grass…Plays Like Grass. But the technology to make it happen was not simple at all. After several years of hard work, after trials, tests, consultations with players, coaches, trainers and doctors, sample plots, equipment modifications, and countless formulations, FieldTurf was born. Initially introduced for tennis and golf, then modified for soccer, and finally perfected even for American football and baseball, FieldTurf revolutionized the turf industry, and in many ways, the entire world of sport.
Innovation So Valuable We Patented It
FieldTurf’s patented system is the first choice for elite athletic venues worldwide: Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Giants, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, St. Louis Rams, New England Patriots, twenty-four NFL installations plus more than forty NCAA installations, including Nebraska, Kansas State, Oregon, Oregon State, Syracuse, Washington and Washington State.
In the ever growing sport of Soccer, in the US and around the world, top leagues and teams practice and play on FieldTurf, including: English and Scottish Premier Leagues; Germany's Bundesliga; Spain's Primera Liga; Japan's JFA; and Russia's Lokomotiv and CSKA.
FieldTurf is dramatically different from traditional synthetic turf. The most striking difference is immediately obvious. Instead of a dense, abrasive rug, FieldTurf’s fiber surface is soft, silky - like new blades of grass in a spring meadow. Players can slide, tackle and tumble on FieldTurf’s unique blend of specially treated Polyethylene fibers without fear of abrasions. Rug burns are a thing of the past. The old hatred of “turf” - voiced so loudly by players, trainers, coaches, the media, even parents and doctors - simply vanishes, a distant memory from the rough “carpet age.”
But FieldTurf is much more than just the absence of abrasions. Unlike traditional turf, FieldTurf does not rely on an underlying shock pad for safety, resilience and player comfort. Rather, like its natural grass cousin, FieldTurf’s grass fibers are surrounded and stabilized by a special blend of “synthetic earth” - FieldTurf’s patented mixture of smooth, rounded silica sand and rubber granules.
The rubber granules are a key component. Tire rubber is cryogenically frozen, shattered into smooth, clean, rounded particles, sized and shaped to stay “in suspension” with the sand, which is of a similar size, shape and weight. The sand and rubber are precision layered to guarantee uniformity, with an installation process that is also patented.
The result: A stable, resilient, uniform, shock-absorbing surface. FieldTurf is the original and only system emulating natural grass, ideal not only for athletes at the elite level but for everyday athletes.
Bio-Mechanical Properties for Safety and Performance
The design of the FieldTurf fabric is radically different. FieldTurf is the original wide gauge, tall pile fabric, and this design is also patented. The distance between the rows of fibers tufted into the backing is very wide, and related directly to the height of the pile fibers. The taller the pile, the wider the distance between the fibers. This patented formula means the special filling or “synthetic earth” that is layered into the pile fibers is carefully controlled in terms of weight, density and thickness. There are ten pounds of infill per square foot compared to less than half of that for any other infilled turf company in the industry. Why is this so important? The designers at FieldTurf discovered that the only way to truly emulate natural grass is to combine all these elements into an integrated system. The tall pile, wide gauge design, and increased infill mass allows cleated shoes to penetrate the fibers, plant into the special sand/rubber infill, twist easily and release (with minimal torsional resistance).
This design accounts for the documented reduction in lower extremity injuries and significantly reduced neural injuries of players who compete on FieldTurf, even compared to natural grass!
The FieldTurf Effect
Our strongest supporters are sophisticated clients who care the most about player performance and safety. Early on, key sports experts grasped the revolutionary impact of the FieldTurf concept. Today our list of worldwide supporters is the most prestigious in the industry. We encourage prospective clients to call our references, to visit our sites, compare and educate themselves on their options. There are many artificial turf manufacturers but only FieldTurf has stood up to the test of time.
The Standard By Which All Products Are Measured
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but as in many things, no guarantee of quality. FieldTurf is a superior investment. That’s why we are seldom the “low bid.” Our educated clients understand that FieldTurf engineering delivers a superior cost and performance ratio, especially in terms of established quality of play, durability, installation experience, and after-sale service and warranty. We are usually the first choice, regardless of price, and FieldTurf is the standard by which all products are measured.
FieldTurf - The Engineered System
Unlike imitations, FieldTurf is an engineered system. This means FieldTurf has been carefully and thoroughly designed, not just thrown together for the purpose of a sale. To control quality at this high level, FieldTurf has invested heavily in modernizing its plants with the latest technologies, top manufacturing talent and specialized installation equipment for its experienced install teams. FieldTurf’s fully staffed CAD-based design department complements the company’s “full service” commitment, delivering superior design and engineering for each project.
FieldTurf Philosophy
Only FieldTurf’s selected components, patented formulation, and construction and installation methods allow us to succeed in emulating the best natural grass fields. Cutting corners, reducing the price of components at the expense of performance are not part of the FieldTurf philosophy. Each and every FieldTurf customer, whether an NFL stadium, Premier League Club or high school multi-discipline facility, gets the identical FieldTurf system, service and warranty.
Excellent System Durability
Minimal outdoor life-cycle cost. Guaranteed resistance to sunlight (Ultra Violet radiation degradation). Resistant to rot, mold, mildew, foot traffic, hydrolysis, airborne contaminants and microbial attack.
Proprietary Permanent and Temporary Marking Systems
Convert a FIFA soccer field into a fully lined American football field in just six to twelve hours. Play soccer Saturday night and football Sunday. No visible seams, no faint backgrounds and no ghosting. This process does not damage the fabric backing like competitive techniques.
National Network of Sales & Service Representatives
Dependable, experienced local expertise. Many of our sales representatives have been successful athletes for most of their lives and have a renewed desire to improve sport through superior revolutionary surfacing for the next generation. FieldTurf is renowned for its customer service along with providing escrow-secured, turnkey Maintenance Contracts to all FieldTurf customers.
To contact a sales representative closest to you, click on the link below: Distributors
Cold Weather and Snow
No weather can stop FieldTurf. Not rainstorms. Not snowstorms. Our fields are made to be plowed without any damage. From Minneapolis to Moscow, our fields perform in the most extreme conditions.
FIFA Recommended Status
FieldTurf was the very first artificial surface to attain such certification due to its superior grass-like performance, which soccer players prefer. FieldTurf fields around the world have passed the international governing body’s stringent testing and continue to be the field of choice.
Convert quickly and easily from sports events to conventions or concerts. Professionals depend on the flexibility of staging sporting events right on top of FieldTurf with no damage to the surface. Solid load bearing capacity of the patented sand and cryogenic rubber infill system allows vehicles to drive directly on the surface. Installed in 2005 at the Rogers Center, FieldTurf’s state-of-the-art tray system will serve to delight customers with changing needs from all over the world. FieldTurf’s tray system is extremely portable and easily stored. The modular trays can be configured in any way while the "lay flat" design allows the FTCS surface to conform to almost any undulating floor condition. Gone are the days of tripping on seam thread. FieldTurf’s trays can be interchangeable for specific logos and or signage while the transportable design allows for moving the surface in or out of a stadium for commercial events. No special storage racking is required since the trays are stacked on each other.
FieldTurf for Non-Sporting Uses
Step on a TourTurf by FieldTurf surface, and you'll see that the future of synthetic golf surfaces is right at your feet. TourTurf is the perfect solution for today’s golf facility decision makers and residential landscapers. It is the most radical development in golf surfacing: a golf surface that’s more durable, more affordable, longer lasting, and safer than any other golf surface, even real grass.
Air FieldTurf™ is a patented turf product line, approved for installation by the FAA. It is designed to improve airfield safety by replacing traditional groundcover on airport property. Airport operators can install this safety-enhancing and cost-effective synthetic groundcover product line to virtually eliminate problems and costs associated with natural grass surfaces. Although most frequently used in runway safety areas, Air FieldTurf can provide an efficient groundcover alternative throughout any airport operational environment.
Eight-Year Warranty, Insured
When you make a large investment on a modern artificial turf field, you want to know that your investment is protected. Protected for the future, regardless of what happens to the company who sold and installed your field. FieldTurf’s Engineered System makes our turf stand out from the crowd. We’re the best in the business and have been since we revolutionized the artificial turf industry. The same holds true for our insured warranty. FieldTurf’s insured warranty provides customers worldwide with protection of $5,000,000 per year. FieldTurf prepays each policy for the life of the warranty - in advance!
FieldTurf Convertible System: The Future of Sports Surfacing
To delight our customers and satisfy their changing needs, FieldTurf has developed an artificial turf tray system that is second to none in the industry. The FieldTurf Convertible System consists of sections of FieldTurf grass installed on plastic drainage tiles conceived to be portable for use in stadiums anywhere. Whether needed in an indoor or outdoor application, the FTCS has been designed to perform predictably in any weather. The draining characteristics of the drainage tiles combined with the unique permeable features of the FieldTurf grass makes the FTCS surface the very best removable system in the World. Washing away the markings and lines and allowing the water to percolate through the FTCS, keeps the surface texture uniform and always very player friendly.
The FieldTurf concept is simple. The best surface for athletic contests - American football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, and softball - is good natural grass. And synthetic turf should be like grass, not carpet. FieldTurf’s inventors were sportsmen - not carpet makers. Former players and coaches, not turf salesmen. They approached the challenge from a completely different perspective. They wanted to develop a synthetic system that offered the beneficial biomechanical properties of natural grass, combined with the best attributes of a durable synthetic system: all-weather playability, low maintenance, and unlimited playing time.
FieldTurf’s patented system is the first choice for elite athletic venues worldwide: Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders, Kansas City Chiefs, Green Bay Packers, New York Jets and Giants, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, St. Louis Rams, New England Patriots, twenty-four NFL installations plus more than forty NCAA installations, including Nebraska, Kansas State, Oregon, Oregon State, Syracuse, Washington and Washington State.
FieldTurf is dramatically different from traditional synthetic turf. The most striking difference is immediately obvious. Instead of a dense, abrasive rug, FieldTurf’s fiber surface is soft, silky - like new blades of grass in a spring meadow. Players can slide, tackle and tumble on FieldTurf’s unique blend of specially treated Polyethylene fibers without fear of abrasions. Rug burns are a thing of the past. The old hatred of “turf” - voiced so loudly by players, trainers, coaches, the media, even parents and doctors - simply vanishes, a distant memory from the rough “carpet age.”
The design of the FieldTurf fabric is radically different. FieldTurf is the original wide gauge, tall pile fabric, and this design is also patented. The distance between the rows of fibers tufted into the backing is very wide, and related directly to the height of the pile fibers. The taller the pile, the wider the distance between the fibers. This patented formula means the special filling or “synthetic earth” that is layered into the pile fibers is carefully controlled in terms of weight, density and thickness. There are ten pounds of infill per square foot compared to less than half of that for any other infilled turf company in the industry. Why is this so important? The designers at FieldTurf discovered that the only way to truly emulate natural grass is to combine all these elements into an integrated system. The tall pile, wide gauge design, and increased infill mass allows cleated shoes to penetrate the fibers, plant into the special sand/rubber infill, twist easily and release (with minimal torsional resistance). 
Our strongest supporters are sophisticated clients who care the most about player performance and safety. Early on, key sports experts grasped the revolutionary impact of the FieldTurf concept. Today our list of worldwide supporters is the most prestigious in the industry. We encourage prospective clients to call our references, to visit our sites, compare and educate themselves on their options. There are many artificial turf manufacturers but only FieldTurf has stood up to the test of time.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but as in many things, no guarantee of quality. FieldTurf is a superior investment. That’s why we are seldom the “low bid.” Our educated clients understand that FieldTurf engineering delivers a superior cost and performance ratio, especially in terms of established quality of play, durability, installation experience, and after-sale service and warranty. We are usually the first choice, regardless of price, and FieldTurf is the standard by which all products are measured.
Unlike imitations, FieldTurf is an engineered system. This means FieldTurf has been carefully and thoroughly designed, not just thrown together for the purpose of a sale. To control quality at this high level, FieldTurf has invested heavily in modernizing its plants with the latest technologies, top manufacturing talent and specialized installation equipment for its experienced install teams. FieldTurf’s fully staffed CAD-based design department complements the company’s “full service” commitment, delivering superior design and engineering for each project.
Only FieldTurf’s selected components, patented formulation, and construction and installation methods allow us to succeed in emulating the best natural grass fields. Cutting corners, reducing the price of components at the expense of performance are not part of the FieldTurf philosophy. Each and every FieldTurf customer, whether an NFL stadium, Premier League Club or high school multi-discipline facility, gets the identical FieldTurf system, service and warranty.
Minimal outdoor life-cycle cost. Guaranteed resistance to sunlight (Ultra Violet radiation degradation). Resistant to rot, mold, mildew, foot traffic, hydrolysis, airborne contaminants and microbial attack.
Dependable, experienced local expertise. Many of our sales representatives have been successful athletes for most of their lives and have a renewed desire to improve sport through superior revolutionary surfacing for the next generation. FieldTurf is renowned for its customer service along with providing escrow-secured, turnkey Maintenance Contracts to all FieldTurf customers.
No weather can stop FieldTurf. Not rainstorms. Not snowstorms. Our fields are made to be plowed without any damage. From Minneapolis to Moscow, our fields perform in the most extreme conditions.
FieldTurf was the very first artificial surface to attain such certification due to its superior grass-like performance, which soccer players prefer. FieldTurf fields around the world have passed the international governing body’s stringent testing and continue to be the field of choice.
Convert quickly and easily from sports events to conventions or concerts. Professionals depend on the flexibility of staging sporting events right on top of FieldTurf with no damage to the surface. Solid load bearing capacity of the patented sand and cryogenic rubber infill system allows vehicles to drive directly on the surface. Installed in 2005 at the Rogers Center, FieldTurf’s state-of-the-art tray system will serve to delight customers with changing needs from all over the world. FieldTurf’s tray system is extremely portable and easily stored. The modular trays can be configured in any way while the "lay flat" design allows the FTCS surface to conform to almost any undulating floor condition. Gone are the days of tripping on seam thread. FieldTurf’s trays can be interchangeable for specific logos and or signage while the transportable design allows for moving the surface in or out of a stadium for commercial events. No special storage racking is required since the trays are stacked on each other.
Step on a TourTurf by FieldTurf surface, and you'll see that the future of synthetic golf surfaces is right at your feet. TourTurf is the perfect solution for today’s golf facility decision makers and residential landscapers. It is the most radical development in golf surfacing: a golf surface that’s more durable, more affordable, longer lasting, and safer than any other golf surface, even real grass.
Air FieldTurf™ is a patented turf product line, approved for installation by the FAA. It is designed to improve airfield safety by replacing traditional groundcover on airport property. Airport operators can install this safety-enhancing and cost-effective synthetic groundcover product line to virtually eliminate problems and costs associated with natural grass surfaces. Although most frequently used in runway safety areas, Air FieldTurf can provide an efficient groundcover alternative throughout any airport operational environment.
When you make a large investment on a modern artificial turf field, you want to know that your investment is protected. Protected for the future, regardless of what happens to the company who sold and installed your field. FieldTurf’s Engineered System makes our turf stand out from the crowd. We’re the best in the business and have been since we revolutionized the artificial turf industry. The same holds true for our insured warranty. FieldTurf’s insured warranty provides customers worldwide with protection of $5,000,000 per year. FieldTurf prepays each policy for the life of the warranty - in advance!
