Shannon Beck is the Vice President of Global Syn-Turf, Inc. He lives in Newport Beach, California and graduated the Texas State University in 1989 with a bachelor degree in business administration and management.

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All our artificial grass products are flame resistant. Please see my previous answers to the same question by clicking on this link: https://www.globalsynturf.com/do-you-offer-any-flame-resistant-turfs. For any further questions, you can reach us via phone: 877 796 8873 or email: [email protected], thank you.

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All our artificial grass products are fire resistant and have been tested by third party labs. To view the testing results for each turf product, please visit this link and click on the product: https://www.globalsynturf.com/artificial-grass-specifications-specs. For any other questions or concerns, please feel free to reach us via phone: 877 796 8873 or email: [email protected], thank you.

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We normally custom manufacture the artificial grass for one single sport fields per project to ensure the consistency of the production run. All sport field projects take a great deal of time from the design stage to the finish which allow us to manufacture the turf per specs and be ready by the time of installation. Please feel free to fill out this online form with your project details so we can assist you better, thank you: https://www.globalsynturf.com/free-quote.

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There are several ways of making artificial grass products, the most popular methods is “tufting” and most of our turf products are tufted. We also use “knitted” technology to make turf products and such method provide a fully permeated backing and hence named “flo-rite-through”. However, due to the high cost of such production and size limitations, we have not been actively prosecuting knitted products in recent years. All our our tufted turf products have great drainage capacities, on average, our artificial grass product can drain 50-100 inches per hour which can handle more than 5 times of the downpour from a category 5 hurricane. Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions, by phone/ 877 796 8873 or by email: [email protected], thank you.

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Our Shockpads products to be used with artificial grass installations are made of PE (Polyethylene) and POE (

Polyethylene based Polyolefin Elastomers), therefore, it can be recycled. The shockpads are manufactured through a “foaming” process, with rubbery/foam feel provide excellent cushioning for turf installations. Please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions, you can reach us via phone: 877 796 8873, or email: [email protected], thank you.

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Scott,

Thanks for the great question.  Yes Global Syn-Turf is LEED Certified through the U.S. Green Building Council.  There is no Specification Sheet to tell you we are LEED Certified.  You can look it up on the U.S. Green Building Council website using our Member Number:  953812523104138.  Here is more information on the LEED Certification:

Global Syn Turf is a proud member of the U.S. Green Building Council and LEED Certification (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Installing Global Syn-Turf can earn buildings and projects points towards being LEED certified. Global Syn-Turf continues its efforts to be "Green" and "Sustainable" by providing materials that contribute to LEED certification. By eliminating the need for water we are helping save one of the world's most precious resources. Did you know 70% of residential water usage goes to irrigating outside the home. By switching to synthetic grass you are doing your part of "Going Green".  LEED points can be accumulated with the following categories: Water Efficient Landscaping, Recycled Content and Material and Innovative

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Artificial grass was first installed over 40 years ago and is still going strong.  I don't see any reason why Artificial Turf won't be here in the future.  As one of the most popular landscaping alternatives, Artificial Turf saves billions of gallons of water per year.  One of the great things about Artificial Turf is that it is modular.  What I mean is you can pull the turf up, remove it and reinstall it many times over.  I have seen customers move and take their turf with them and install it in their new home.  

Artificial Turf has a 15 year warranty and a 20-25 year life expectancy and I see no fear of you having to remove your turf down the road.  As always we appreciate your questions, let us know if we can help in any other way.

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There are two major advantages of using artificial grass for sport applications:

1. Considerably lower cost of maintenance cost: all artificial grass sport fields will need regular maintenance such as infilling and brushing and cleaning. However such maintenance cost less than 1/4 of the cost of maintaining a real grass field, not to include the cost of watering the real grass sport fields. Maintenance on artificial grass sport field is a routine and easy process requires minimum skills.

2. Artificial grass is the only choice for any indoor sport field applications. It is just not possible for have real grass sport fields indoors. Astrodome was the very first place in where artificial grass was invented for that particular reason. When the dome was built, real grass was installed inside, but it become impossible to keep the real grass alive and get maintained.

Initial upfront cost for artificial grass sport applications might be higher but it can save a great deal amount of money in the long run.

We offer free consultations, please feel free to reach us via phone, email or this online form: https://www.globalsynturf.com/free-quote

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We are the manufacturer of artificial grass products, and we have standard sales channels to distribute our products to market. Our turf products are sold through our distributors and dealers only both locally and nationwide. Our distributor and dealer network is the largest in the industry, such network can provide excellent local coverage with outstanding services and professional expertise, in turn, will greatly benefit end users and homeowners for easy access to our products. 

You can always fill out this online form, and we will help you to connect with the nearest distributors and dealers:

https://www.globalsynturf.com/free-quote#

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Dtex stands for Decitex, a term in textile industry for measuring yarns, the unit measures how many grams per 10000 meters, so it refers to mass or weight of the grass yarn. If all grass fibers are visually similar in size, the higher of the DTex number of a grass yarn, the heavier and densier it is. For an example, if the Dtex for a grass is 8000, it means the weight of a single piece of yarn at a length of 10000 meters weighs 8000 grams.

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