{"id":3981,"date":"2026-10-16T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/lexikon\/artificial-grass-generations\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T08:57:34","slug":"artificial-grass-generations","status":"publish","type":"lexikon","link":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/artificial-grass-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Grass Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the sports sector, a distinction is usually made between three <strong>artificial grass generations<\/strong>. This classification describes the technical progress from the first artificial turf to the present day. <\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Generation<\/th>\n<th>Features<\/th>\n<th>Typical Use<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>1st Generation (from the 1960s)<\/td>\n<td>short, hard fibers, mostly <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/polyamide-pa\/\">polyamide<\/a>, unfilled<\/td>\n<td>first stadiums, e.g., <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/astroturf\/\">AstroTurf<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2nd Generation (from the 1970s)<\/td>\n<td>longer, often <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/fibrillated-fiber\/\">fibrillated<\/a> fibers with sand infill<\/td>\n<td>hockey, tennis, all-weather courts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3rd Generation (from the 1990s)<\/td>\n<td>long, soft <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/monofilament\/\">monofilament<\/a> fibers with sand and elastic infill<\/td>\n<td>modern soccer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2>And today?<\/h2>\n<p>Current developments focus on systems without plastic granules, natural infill materials, and recyclable products\u2014partly due to EU regulations on <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/microplastics\/\">microplastics<\/a>. Garden artificial grass such as <a href=\"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/lexikon\/royal-grass\/\">Royal Grass\u00ae<\/a> does not require plastic granules. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial grass has evolved through several &#8220;generations&#8221; since the 1960s\u2014from short, hard surfaces to soft, long fibers with infill material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3981","lexikon","type-lexikon","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lexikon\/3981","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\/3981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topgreen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}