[2] Since the early 2000s, AstroTurf has marketed taller pile systems that use infill materials to better replicate natural turf.

[3] In 2016, AstroTurf became a subsidiary of German-based SportGroup, a family of sports surfacing companies, which itself is owned by the investment firm Equistone Partners Europe.

The original, experimental installation was inside the Waughhtel-Howe Field House at the Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1964.

Although SRI successfully marketed AstroPlay, a third-generation turf product, increased competition gave way to lawsuits.

[10] Out of the bankruptcy proceedings, Textile Management Associates, Inc. (TMA) of Dalton, Georgia, acquired the AstroTurf brand and other assets.

AstroTurf introduced new product features and installation methods, including AstroFlect (a heat-reduction technology)[12] and field prefabrication (indoor, climate-controlled inlaying).

[13] AstroTurf also introduced a product called "RootZone" consisting of crimped fibers designed to encapsulate infill.