Non-infill products, such as the latest innovations from TigerTurf, are engineered to provide high performance without relying on any added performance infills at all.
Replicating Nature:
Natural grass does not have infills, instead well designed and maintained natural sports turfs has a strong and stable root zone and our new generation or artificial no-infill and no-performance infill turfs has the same.
NF Products:
These systems have no added stabilising or performance infill, instead the product itself has been designed and made with a thick thatch base layer that replicates a natural root zone and semi texturized primary fibers that stand up above the root zone to support the ball enabling players to get their foot beneath the ball and non-directional ball roll.
Because this product has no stabilizing infill (weight and ballast) it is either made with a very specific backing material and is edge clamped or its is glued to the sports pad system beneath to eliminate movement caused by thermal expansion. This requires a paved instiu type pad system.
NPF products:
These systems differ from the NF systems only in that they have stabilising infill (sand) added. This is useful if the system is being laid with no pad or over a non-bound preformed pad.
Sanded systems also have the benefit of holding moisture keeping the overall surface temperatures lower.
Sand is of coarse an abrasive and testing shows a true NF system will have a much longer life than sanded system. The other key benefit of no added sand comes at the end of the products life as the product is a much more attractive option to recycle with no sand to remove and no abrasive on recycling machinery.
Leave a Reply