Quality Control

FieldTurf Tarkett has brought “single source responsibility” and quality to the forefront with its manufacturing plant and lab. This has paved the road towards true innovation and customer service.

The plant is an impressive site by anyone’s standards. Located in Dalton, GA, it is a 110,000 square foot facility with 35 employees totalling well over 300 years of experience in the artificial turf industry. The plant features 8 tufting machines with a capacity to produce 600,000 square feet of turf each day. That is an annual production of 219,000,000 square feet of quality assured turf - enough to supply just under 3000 full-sized athletic fields per year.

To ensure FieldTurf Tarkett’s standards are unmatched, a rigorous quality control process (based on extensive testing and inspections) is undertaken with every order that is put into production.

First, yarn testing is performed, which includes tensile strength, elongation, tenacity, denier, shrinkage, and twist (turns per inch). The primary backing is inspected and the “pick count”--or yarn density in relation to the backing--is verified to ensure the right amount of face yarn per square inch. Each tufting operator verifies the pile weight and pile height of the yarn to make sure that quality requirements are met every step of the way.

Testing continues throughout the entire tufting process until all rolls for a project are complete. Once the rolls are complete, the backing of each roll is carefully coated with polyurethane to complete FieldTurf Tarkett’s patented finger-unit backing design for enhanced fiber strength and unmatched drainage efficiency.  A FieldTurf coating inspector is on site at all times to ensure that the coating is applied properly. One small error and the roll is pulled from the line and reproduced. Once the coating process is complete, every component of the finished carpet undergoes final inspection before it is packaged and loaded onto the trucks for transportation to the job site.

For every 5 rolls that are produced at the plant, a 2 ft by 15 ft sample of turf is retained by the FieldTurf Tarkett Research & Development department in Dalton. These samples are carefully filed under the name of the corresponding project. This way the project can be verified through to completion and beyond while the turf samples are analyzed on a regular basis.
 
From the beginning, FieldTurf Tarkett’s founders recognized that quality control, customer protection, and product satisfaction could only be guaranteed by being masters of their own destiny.

The state-of-the-art plant located in Dalton, Georgia is a big reason why FieldTurf Tarkett is the number one choice of homeowners, pet facilities, golf courses, professional teams, high schools, colleges and facility managers around the world. FieldTurf Tarkett's ability to ensure the quality of its raw materials and its manufacturing from start to finish is the reason why it enjoys the best record for on-time delivery of its projects.

   FieldTurf Tarkett manufacturing facility in Dalton, GA where strict quality control measures were instituted since Day 1