Global Syn-Turf has unveiled new advanced artificial grass products this week. Combining the latest developments in the synthetic turf technology with proprietary core nylon and a high tenacity monofilament, GST has developed a line of new products that offer the increased power with the longer life-span. The company has the largest inventory of the synthetic grass in the United States, the widest variety of artificial grass, and one of the strongest landscaping networks in the country. Not the number of products in GST catalog made it beyond the number sixty. For GST partners, it means that the time to order new samples is up. Did you order free samples? If not, give us a call today. Today, many customers are asking about a puppy. The answer is - "No." Unfortunately, we can't ship your order of samples with a puppy. But you can visit him (or her) at any time: ...

Global Syn-Turf, Inc., the largest manufacturer of the artificial grass in the United States, is proud to be made in the USA. Known for its inspiring technologies, vibrant colors, finest quality artificial grass, the company continues its expansion into the variety of synthetic turf lines of products for lawns, commercial landscapes, stadiums, playgrounds, sports fields and putting greens. Innovation, speed of delivery, creativity, warranties, and service to end users convert the most valuable assets of GST artificial grass products. By producing unique products, we manage to continuously re-invent ourselves. Manufacturing is done quickly, and products go from concept to delivery in the matter of days. When it comes to the artificial grass, the biggest concern is the delivery speed. At Global Syn-Turf, we always have a large inventory of products available in out storing facilities across the country. As the demand in the synthetic grass grows every year we never stop expanding the range of products, we offer. At the same time, we keep every product from our extensive catalog in stock to provide the continuous service to our partners and customers. It eliminates the lack of consistency most other American manufacturers experience. Today, we like to introduce a new style of making American dream come true, a new form of the versatile, elegant solutions that makes it possible for any homeowner, school, or childcare facility to take the advantage of the latest technologies in the artificial grass industry. Manufacturing products in Unites States help our economy, and purchasing products that are made in the country has a direct impact on its economy. We strive for the quality and safety for each and every product we produce. Every product is tested according to safety and industry standards. Lead-free, eco-friendly, and looking like a real grass, Global Syn-Turf guarantees the long life and the high tear-and-wear resistance. ...

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If you own a property in Contra Costa county, which includes Antioch, Bay Point, Clyde, Brentwood, Clayton, Concord, Danville, El Cerrito, Hercules, Lafayette, Martine, Moraga, Oakley, Orinda, Pinole and Pittsburg, Walnut Creek, Pleasant Hill, Port Costa, you may hear about water-efficiency programs and rebates held by water agency in collaboration with PG&E. There are five types of rebates: 1. Washer machine rebates program 2. Toilet High-Efficiency rebate 3. Landscape water-efficiency program 4. Sprinkler Timer rebates 5. Free Water Conservation Devices Most programs are preset to the end of a year (2014), so if you didn't make any home improvements this year, and you still have time to save some money, or pick up free devices that will help you reduce your water bill and to conserve water. All programs work on the basis, first-come, first-serve. 1. Washer machine rebates program If you purchase the Energy Star Most Efficient (ESME) washing machine (for clothes) between January, 1 2014 and December, 31 2014, submit your rebate application to receive $200 back not later than six months after the date of purchase. Here is the full list of approved models: PG&E list for quaifying clothes washers You will need a proof of purchase (don't forget to make copies). The limit of rebates from one water agency is once per five years, which is reasonable in respect to the average 5-years life-span of highly computerized washers nowadays. There is also a $50 rebate that applies to all Tier 3 on the consortium for Energy Efficiency list: Clotheswasher Aplication Phone number to call: 1-800-933-9555 (PG&E's energy line) 2. Toilet High-Efficiency Rebate That's a tougher program to get the rebate for up to $125. First, your existing toilet must be installed before 1994 and use three and a half gallons per flush or more. If you are not sure, look inside the tank or at the neck of the toilet bowl. Often, manufacturers put there the indexes of the water usage. Before 1992, the standard number was less than 1.6 GPF (Gallons per flush). If your toilet was purchased after 1992, you are more likely have 3.5-7 GPF. Secondly, there is no application online to file. You must visit the District Center: 1331 Concord Ave, Concord, CA (M-F from 8-5). Call them first (925) 688-8320. Another requirement, of course, is that your new toilet must be labeled new US EPA WaterSense HET. When you submit the rebate application along with the sales receipt, CCWD will schedule a post-installation inspection, and the rebate check for up to $125 will be mailed to you in 4-6 weeks. 3. Landscape water-efficiency program "Lose a Lawn - Get a Garden" If you like to get an idea how to redesign your existing lawn, you can get 2-hours FREE professional landscape design assistance. You must pay $150 fee at the time of service and will be reimbursed when your lawns transformation is completed. You can get $1.00 per square foot, and up to $1,000 maximum for residential properties, and up to $10,000 for commercial accounts. This program applies only to front yards (visible to public). If you lawn didn't have in-ground sprinklers system installed prior to the lawn removal, you can't participate in this program. It sounds unfair for homeowners who love to water their front-yard lawns by hand, but that's a deal. You must also replace your lawn with water-efficient plants from the list: Water Efficiency Plants If you plan to install artificial grass, your contractor must be licensed. Without it, your rebate application will not be approved. The artificial grass must permeable for air and water. 50% of the area must be covered with living plants. Call us today to find a licensed contractor in Contra Costa county: 1-877-796-8873. You can find out more: http://www.ccwater.com/L2G-cgi/FAQs.asp 6. Smart Sprinkler Timer rebates This program is good only from commercial, multi-family, and municipal customers. To apply, you must have well-maintained irrigation system in place and have above 150% of average water consumption in your area. To start, you must submit your application to CCWD along with the original sales receipt for existing equipment. Your property will be inspected twice - once before and after the installation. http://www.ccwater.com/smart_timer/commercial.asp 5. Free Water Conservation Devices There are six devices you can pick up for free at CCWD Water conservation office, 1331 Concord Ave, Concord, CA. Limit yourself in taking long showers. You can have a Four Minute Shower Timer free. Earth 2-Flow Soak & Soap massage showerhead has 9-jet turbo-massage spray with on/off toggle switch. 2-flow kitchen aerator with swivel, 1.5 gallons-per-minute bathroom faucet aerator, 6-pattern hose nozzle and even Dye Tablets to check if your toilet leaks. http://www.ccwater.com/conserve/devices.asp ...

Water conservation includes the strategies, policies and activities to manage sweet water as a sustainable resource, to protect the water environment, and to equal current and forward human claim. Population, household bulk and augmentation and plenty all affect how much water is used. One ground conservation goal is total rhythm. The reign of residential water metering serves significantly worldwide. Factors such as climate change will increase grievance on regular water resources especially in manufacturing and agricultural irrigation. Also, available in our modern circle is wet cephalon that help reduce wasting water, antique shower unit are said to custom 5-10 gallons per title. Recent stimulus have estimated that water supplies are measured in less than 30% of UK households and nearly 61% of urban Canadian homes (as of 2001). 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Overhead irrigation, worn lateral-moving or center-pivot sprinklers, has the potential for a more equal and subdue spread pattern. Drip irrigation is the most costly and least-used form, but sacrifice the address to commit water to generate roots with least losses. However, drip irrigation is increasingly affordable, particularly for the home mallee and in happiness of insurgence water rates. There are also cheaply powerful methods uniform to drippings irrigation such as the use of soaking hoses that can even be immersed in the increasing standard to eliminate evaporation. With the U.S. population duplation over the ended 50 years, our thirst for water threefold, and at least 36 nation facing water shortages by 2013, the need to protect water is becoming more and more critical. Because EPA reexamine the subject of responsibly wield our water expedient, the Agency is integrating water care pick artifice at its facilities. The savings grew to seventeen billion gallons in July, which is more than seven percent. Felicia Marcus, California State Water Resources Control Board Chair, says the effects are encouraging. The Water Board describes the Sacramento place deducting the largest, with a nearly 20 percent water savings rate. "People are moving towards conservation, and it is amazing especially in July, which is, usually, a time where water use goes up; we saw a usual of a 7 percent lowering," she says. "And some of them, I suppose, had a false appreciation of security and a false sense that the drought wasn't so." Between January and May of 2014, California cuts its water habit by five percent compared to the identical time over the previous three years, correspondingly to data released Tuesday during a convention of the State Water Resources Control Board. Large urbane centers are frequently hundreds and hundreds of miles from their water source. Jerry Brown's emergency drought declaration in January. They do not see the fields current fallow. They're not considering the communities cursorial out of water," she trial. Southern California was also isolated out for its proud rank of turf removal, though the region had lower water conservation proportion. Governor Jerry Brown has called on every Californian to reduce their water habit by 20 percent. As California slips into summer amid the overthrow drought in a race, estate residents, as a whole, have done relatively contemptible to cut their water use, drip-drop well abrupt of the 20 percent target regulate in Government. The figures were drawn from a prospect of water agencies across the quality escort by water entertainment staff. A Senior environmental scientist for the provision, Max Gomberg, aforesaid water use increased statewide in January, a month that is normally the quality's wettest but instead manifest to be extraordinarily exsiccate. 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Shock pads are the ideal way to add safety and resilience to the artificial grass surface. In sports industry, shock pads are often referred as an "insurance policy." According to FIFA-endorsed regulations, the shock-attenuation testing (or G-Max) is recommended for every sports field. You can get a good G-max without a shock pad, but if you like to have safer, more resilient surface, you might consider installing shock pads beneath the turf. Shock pads make sense. Do you want to improve safety? Just lay down the pad before synthetic turf installation. From Astroturf with its nylon carpet, most artificial grass manufacturers turned their attention to infill solutions. Rubber infill lowers G-Max to acceptable levels. When the surface compression is high, the surface feels much softer. It works great for children, but in competitive sports and golf, you need the ball rolling with a certain speed. For example, the acceptable green speed with infill for our putting greens can be as high as 14-15 on the Stimp-meter BRD. On the softer sports fields athletes get more tired than usual. Ideally, the surface must feel normal yet ensure safety. But there is a definite mishap with the infill. It migrates on the turf surface, and the level thins especially in areas with heavy traffic. It is not just about uneven surface. Migration of infill hardens the surface reduces infill compaction and causes the degradation in performance over time. Again, it does not apply to residential or commercial projects where the traffic is low to medium. But in sports industry shock pads are crucial. Shock pads reduce the amount of infill (and subsequent infill "splash") by lowering the height of the fiber pile and increasing the density of the pile itself. The concept of having shock pads inside infill itself had changed due to low shock-attenuation levels and extensive maintenance. Today, most business owners regard shock pads like just like an extra insurance. Shock pads differ in density and thickness. If you are installing putting greens, it is a good idea to install 8 mm shock pad. Important thing to understand about the quality of shock pads is its tear and wear resistance, low water absorption and high shock absorption. In this sense, chemically Closed-Cell Polyethylene Foam is the perfect material for padding. Low moisture permeability and high buoyancy combined with a smooth, delicate feel and superior physical and chemical properties, the foam is the ideally shock‐absorber. Advantages of Closed-Cell PE Foam - Closed-cell, chemically cross-linked structure - Lightweight - Shatterproof - Non-dusting - Excellent buoyancy - Excellent chemical and grease resistance - Superb strength and tear resistance - Low water absorption - Excellent strength and shock absorption - Impervious to mold, bacteria and mildew - Nontoxic ...

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The best way to start a new day and to celebrate accomplishments of the last week is to look forward with a sense of gratitude and with an attitude of happiness and success that drive us toward upcoming victories. Every day we are looking forward to making a change in the world, to help our partners and customers to succeed and prosper with every new product or technology we bring to the market. Our new Double W-63 is a little brother of Double W-85. The uniquely designed Double W blade is a great style of art and the most perfect imitation of nature. If you are a landscape professional, you will appreciate universalism of this synthetic grass which is far closer to empirical reality than one can only imagine just a couple of years ago. New Double W-63 intended for use in various applications starting with lawns, pet's areas, rooftops, or decorative landscape designs, sports fields, and almost anything you can imagine. Find your imagination triggered all anew by the fresh and extraordinary product in your collection of synthetic turf. Double W unique GST blade design adds an extra layer of durability and extends the life-span of your lawn, field or any area you choose to install this synthetic turf on. Double W blades is the next generation of artificial grass and while the potential for developing, researching and expanding the synthetic turf product at whole is enormous, step by step we are getting into the era of sudden artificial jump of multiple areas of existence, and our lawns revolutionize into new, modern, less natural resources driven escape from the traditional approach to decorative landscape designs. Garden and landscape enthusiasts have more time and space now to escalate their imagination by leaving the main areas of a lawn to the waterless turf that does not require watering and specific maintenance and focusing more on surrounding areas with flowers, natural rock gardens and pool related landscape associations. With Double W-63, more ideas come to its fruition. Now, you can choose two optional products from Double W line of Performance Series (Engineered blades) - Double W with face weight 63 and 85. The colors are slightly different. Double W-63 come in emerald green and olive green mixed colored blades while Double W-85 is more "darkish" with olive green and dark emerald colored blades and both products carry two-layered thatch - brown and green. We love the thatch. It makes any synthetic turf look realistic, with small patches of brown thin curly lines deep underneath a top surface. The thatch makes a grass feel soft and full, deep and lucrative. ...

Up to now, PGA leaderboard reviles the top players of this year PGA Golf Championship tournament, with Rory McIlroy ahead. But, for the next golf game the winners are not participating due to the recovery time. The Wyndham Championship is the next stop on the PGA Tour men's golf schedule in North Carolina, just a few days following from an entrancing PGA Championship major tournament that was hold in New York. On the last PGA leaderboard, Rory McIlroy has topped the winnings in the last three tournaments he played, including Open Championship, WGC-Bridgestone, and a PGA Championship that was hold last Sunday. However, none of the three are participating in the Wyndham Championship today, due to a routinely recovery time for many of the stars of the game to take the week off before or after a major. Today's action will receive three hours of live TV network coverage that will probably have low viewing rating. So who are on the leaderboard for this tournament on day one? On the first day of the golf tournament, Brian Stuard was rated at a top on the PGA leaderboard with an opening round of nine under par with Camilo Villegas is one stroke behind at seven under. Heath Slocum, William McGirt, Webb Simpson, and are current on the same platform at six under. Other several players, including Brandt Snedeker, are all at five under par. Today's Wyndham Championship golf tournament, the PGA leaderboard showed Hath Slocum with a five under par with a total of 130 points. Following Brian Suard with one point behind, with Camilo Villagas falling under two par with 132 point. However, Global Syn-Turf, Inc., who is a leading manufacturing and supplier of synthetic turf, watching how Villegas's positive incentives to take a league in this year's tournament. According to the PGA leaderboard first round leads haven't been so kind to him, because after opening with a 7 under par 63 score on Thursday, he noted to the middle georgia's news source that "I think if I have a good week this week — not just today but this week — it'll show that I really want to make the team. I want to make a good argument for myself to be a pick." After starting back on the ninth par, he had three early shots before getting closer to the next post. Vellegas followed his birdie shot on the fourth with an eagle on the five under par in fifth hole, placing his second shot about 3 feet from the stick. He claimed only possession of the lead two holes later with a birdie, sinking a 15-foot putt on the third under par of his seventh try. At Global Syn-Tuft, Inc. we love to watch and to follow PGA leaderboard to recognize who will be the next winner for PGA Golf tournament, because we support our sport team satisfaction to playing on synthetic grass. At GST, we believe that choosing to play a sport on our synthetic grass has a great outcome for the environment and players comfort. ...