With the development of sports, the rapid changes in science and technology, and the advancement of people's concepts, artificial turf will make a huge wave at home and abroad, subverting people's traditional concepts of artificial turf.
When the utilization intensity is too high or the growth conditions are extremely unfavorable, and natural lawns are difficult to grow and establish, artificial turf is a good choice. The main advantages of artificial turf compared to natural turf are: it breaks the climate restrictions of natural turf; the maintenance cost is relatively low. In some countries and regions, artificial turf can be chosen considering economic factors. In addition, artificial turf has better advantages than natural lawn in terms of high-frequency and high-intensity use, construction methods, maintenance, and application effects. Therefore, artificial turf will have more and more advantages with the advancement of technology. The more room for development.
North Korea's May Day Stadium is the largest stadium in Asia. The artificial turf laid here is completely fake. Why use artificial grass? One is because of the climate, and the other is that the maintenance cost of natural grass is too high.
Russia's latitude is higher than that of northern China, so it must be colder. The competition time of the Russian Super League is similar to that of the Chinese Super League, both taking place from March to November. Among them, the weather is cold in the five months from March to May, October and November, which is not suitable for the growth of natural grass, so their professional football leagues are basically played on artificial turf. The reality is that if the Russian Super League does not use artificial grass, many months of games will have to be played on frozen mud. Russia's home stadium, the famous Luzhniki Stadium, has artificial grass. It has hosted the Champions League final (Manchester United defeated Chelsea on penalty kicks) and will also be the venue for the World Cup final in 2018.
Generally, the service life of artificial grass can reach 5 to 10 years, and there is basically no maintenance cost. The price of natural grass is lower, but the maintenance costs are staggering. The maintenance cost of European clubs’ venues is 3 million euros a year, which is more than 20 million yuan when converted into RMB. Domestic maintenance costs vary by venue, but are not low. To give just one example, a field maintenance worker said: "After a high-intensity training session, the turf field can be damaged in nearly a thousand places. It needs to be repaired immediately, which requires labor costs. At the same time, various maintenance is required. Pest control, etc.”
The current difference between natural grass and artificial grass is that artificial grass has a high initial investment but basically no cost in the later period; natural grass has a low investment, but in the later stage it is a "bottomless pit".
Artificial turf has hosted the World Cup
In the 2010 World Cup Group C group match, the match between Slovenia and Algeria was held at the Peter Mokaba Stadium, which was a mixture of artificial grass (70%) and natural grass (30%). This was the first time artificial grass entered the World Cup. The 2014 World Cup in Brazil all used natural grass, but the training fields provided by Brazil to each team were artificial grass fields produced by Chinese companies. At the 2015 Women's World Cup in Canada, all six fields used artificial grass. If I didn’t tell you, you might not have noticed, right? It's totally fake.
There are clubs in the five major leagues that use artificial grass.
Although England issued a ban in 1995 prohibiting professional clubs from using artificial turf pitches for games, various clubs still have artificial turf pitches. For example, the artificial grass pitch at Chelsea's Cobham training base was built by Chinese companies. Lorient is the only team in Ligue 1 and even the five major leagues to use artificial turf.
Conclusion
We are working hard to improve the quality of artificial turf to be the same as natural turf, or even surpass natural turf. From the appearance point of view, artificial turf will be closer and closer to natural grass, and even better than natural grass in terms of integrity and uniformity. . With the development of artificial turf technology, artificial turf and natural turf will give full play to their respective advantages, learn from each other's strengths, and combine with each other. Under this background, artificial turf will have broader development and market prospects.
