What does the backing weight tell me about artificial turf?

The artificial grass consists of four major components: Straight finer blades, thatching, primary backing and secondary backing. When people are referring to backings, normally the combination of primary an secondary backing. Primary backing of artificial grass from Global Syn-Turf are two layers of polypropylene cloth as a standard, such backings not only provide solid base for grass constructions, but also help with the steadiness of our turf: to minimize the expansions and contractions when temperatures change, therefore, technically the thicker the primary backing is better. The secondary backing on the other hand can be a bit different, it is a glue layer to hold all the fibers together, so it is not necessarily all true the thicker the glue is the better. Here is why: the secondary backing is all about its functionality, we need to make sure the glue will sink through the primary backing to ensure the glue’s sticking and holding strength, our unique coating techniques can make sure process happen without wasting much of glue which meaninglessly increase the cost. 

By all above said, the weight of backing is more of technical specification of artificial grass, which not necessarily reflects the functionality of the products, nor 100% contributes to the value of the artificial grass. Of course, too light of the backing weight should be red flagged while considering the overall quality of artificial turf product by understanding the typical backing weight ranges.

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