{"id":3881,"date":"2026-10-15T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/lexikon\/artificial-turf\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:53:26","slug":"artificial-turf","status":"publish","type":"lexikon","link":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/artificial-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial turf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Artificial turf<\/strong> and synthetic grass mean the same thing: a surface made of plastic fibres tufted into a <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/backing-backing-fabric\/\">backing fabric<\/a>. The term \u201cartificial turf\u201d is used mainly in standards and tender specifications, for example in <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/din-18035-7\/\">DIN 18035-7<\/a> \u201cArtificial turf surfaces\u201d. <\/p>\n<h2>Other terms<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Synthetic grass<\/strong> \u2013 the most common term<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/lawn-carpet\/\">Grass carpet<\/a> \u2013 usually used for simple, thin surfaces<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/astroturf\/\">AstroTurf<\/a> \u2013 originally a brand name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>How artificial turf is made is explained in the entry <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/tufting\/\">Tufting<\/a>; the most important fibre material is <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/polyethylene-pe\/\">polyethylene<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial turf is the technical term used in standards for synthetic grass\u2014especially on sports fields.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3881","lexikon","type-lexikon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lexikon"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}