Shaw Sports Turf opened its state-of-the-art PEAK Performance Lab, a facility that redefines synthetic turf research and development. This cutting-edge innovation hub puts athletes at the center of Shaw’s R&D process, driving industry standards for performance, safety and playability.
The PEAK Performance Lab is built upon three pillars — playability, environment and athlete kinetics — with the aim of ensuring that every product developed is optimized for the demands of the sport, athlete performance, environmental responsibility and adaptability.
At the core of the PEAK Performance Lab is a state-of-the-art motion capture system, custom-designed to analyze how turf influences an athletic movement. This technology allows Shaw Sports Turf to move beyond conventional mechanical testing, which fails to capture the complexities of real athletes’ interactions with the surface.
The PEAK Performance Lab is designed to turn real-time biomechanical insights into immediate product improvements, demonstrating Shaw’s commitment to develop turf systems that are optimized for not only the sport and environmental conditions, but also for the athletes playing on them.