subject: Synthetic Turf Secrets Your Sales Person Won't Tell You [print this page] As a consumer it is always helpful to become educated about the product you wish to purchase. Becoming educated regarding artificial grass is no different because there are a lot of false claims being made by landscape designers and synthetic turf installers. The trend among these designers and installers is to sell you on how much better their turf is than the competition. It is the goal of this article to dispel the myth that any one manufacturer of turf is superior to the others. To do this lets go over the basics of synthetic turf. Let us first discuss how synthetic grass is manufactured. There are 7 tufting mills that manufacture artificial turf in the United States. When I use the term "manufacture," what I mean is the actual tufting process by which all of the materials are combined to make the final product. So for the purpose of this article lets refer to the turf manufacturers as tufting mills. Here they are:
