Playground Product Roundup

BigToys
BigToys' Summit Series offers a new twist on its longstanding approach to creating barrier-free playground designs that also provide both social and physical play opportunities. Recognizable activities are grouped to fit in reduced spaces and are arranged to be accessible from ground level. The open architecture of the Summit Series encourages exploration of the entire structure, while also maximizing site lines allowing for easy supervision. Like all BigToys play equipment, the Summit Series contain no PVC and is available in a choice of materials.
www.bigtoys.com

Childforms
Childforms Child Shapers package C is the complete solution for your early childhood playgrounds. Child Shapers Package C comes with the popular Child Shapers C play structure, plus your choice of three free-standing play events from their most popular products, including Spring Riders, Balance Beams, and Fun Pods. Additionally, Childforms packages come complete with the necessary 8-inch Funtimbers to surround the play area and keep your safety surfacing where it belongs, on the playground. Lastly, every Childforms package includes an ADA-accessible ramp system to provide access to children of all abilities.
www.childforms.com

EcoPlay Playgrounds from Safeplay Systems
Safeplay Systems custom designs, manufactures and sells play structures made from recycled post-consumer HDPE plastic - milk jugs. A single EcoPlay Playground keeps an average of 30,000 milk jugs out of landfill. EcoPlay Playgrounds exemplify a philosophy of "sustainable design for healthy living." Not only are the play structures made of recycled material, they also can be re-recycled (sustainable design) and do not contain PVC, fiberglass, or toxins of any kind. EcoPlay Playground structures require minimum maintenance, are impermeable to water, cannot be eaten by insects, never need painting or sealing, and won't splinter, crack, rust, swell or degrade in any way.
www.safeplaysystems.com

EnduraSafe from Advanced Ground Care
Jumping from the top of the slide, falling off the monkey bars - when children play, there will always be injuries, but using EnduraSafe rubber ground cover will reduce both the number and severity of those mishaps. It is non-toxic, has no splinters, and won't stain skin or clothing. It won't blow away or wash away, and it is warranted against fade and total color loss for eight years. Whether you choose natural or bright colors, Endura is a long-lasting, low-maintenance choice that is cost effective in the long run.
www.advancedgroundcare.com

EnvyLawn
EnvyLawn artificial grass is an ideal safety surface for all types of playgrounds and play areas. EnvyLawn is an environmentally friendly artificial grass that is 100 percent recyclable when purchased with the company's Duraflo backing, and is customizable to fit the needs of any playground. EnvyLawn is a unitary safety surface that will not wash away or migrate and with installation systems that meet up to 12 feet fall height ratings. EnvyLawn provides a beautiful, natural looking playground surface that promises to be soft, yet durable for even the most elaborate playgrounds. EnvyLawn is a quality brand of Challenger Industries.
www.envylawn.com

EUROFLEX
EUROFLEX Impact Protection Surfacing has also been well received by customers and children around the world since 1999. All EUROFLEX products are produced from the highest quality recycled rubber under stringent ISO9001 quality control standards. Their tile designs, controlled production environment, and ongoing product testing assure consistent fall protection and wear characteristics in every installation. In addition to their high-quality Impact Protection Surfacing, EUROFLEX Mushrooms can be used purely as play equipment or to create mini play islands within playgrounds. The EUROFLEX Mushroom's robust recycled rubber construction and fun colors permit maximum design flexibility.
www.kraiburg-relastec.com

International Play Company
International Play Company (IPC) designs, installs and manufactures indoor soft modular structures and outdoor playgrounds for schools. IPC is introducing its new Lava Drop Slide. Add it to an existing play structure or incorporate it into your new design. The slide is available in different sizes. IPC is dedicated to creating customized play systems to meet your space and budget requirements. Create a play environment in a style to suit your school. From a Noah's Ark theme, Tree House or a Jungle Safari, if you can dream it, IPC can do it. IPC adheres to ASTM, ADA, CPRA, IPEMA safety guidelines and has in-house playground safety inspectors.
www.iplayco.com

KikaFlik
Increasingly being used in kindergartens and elementary schools, KikaFlik is a unique new toy for boys and girls developed originally to teach young gymnasts basic coordination skills. The winner of multiple awards, including Learning Magazine's Teachers Choice Gold Award, it introduces a new concept in developing these skills in a simple yet very imaginative way. With KikaFlik, kids don't realize they are taking exercise and learning very important life skills because they are having so much fun. Children will use it as a training tool for multiple sports.
www.kikaflik.com

Evos by Landscape Structures
Kids can't resist the new shape of play-Evos-where the spherical design provides a completely new play experience for kids of all ages. Evos offers endless physical, mental and creative challenges for kids as they navigate through its unique play components. With 25 versatile Evos components to choose from-and more on the way-this playsystem is great for phased projects. Start with four arches, a few of your favorite components and keep adding to your Evos as space or budget allows.
www.playlsi.com

NEOS from Playworld Systems
Playworld Systems has launched NEOS, a unique new product bringing electronic gaming to the outdoor play space. NEOS' intriguing design includes four, 7-foot tall columns with interactive sound and buttons. The buttons light up in random sequence depending on game selection and provide an exhilarating new way to play outdoors. With nine different games and three skill levels to choose from, NEOS can be played by one, two, or four players with varying abilities. NEOS is competitive, challenging, and fun, while also improving agility, balance, fitness, and social skills.
www.playworldsystems.com

Noah's Ark from Progressive Design
Progressive Design Playgrounds introduces its Noah's Ark Themed Play structure. Packed with plenty of imaginative play and active physical play features, this compact and space-saving design is a great addition to an existing playground or can be a great start to something new. Progressive Design Playgrounds designs and manufactures state-of-the-art and environmentally friendly commercial children's playground equipment and recreation site furnishings. With a strong commitment to providing fun and safe play environments for children as well as to the preservation of the earth's natural resources, Progressive Design Playgrounds uses 100 percent recycled plastic to create bright and colorful play structures.
www.pdplay.com

Play Mart's Trike Track Drive Thru
Play Mart's Trike Track Drive Thru provides a colorful spark for young imaginations to run wild. Leading manufacturing of Recycled Plastic Play Systems, Play Mart's playgrounds contain 100 percent recycled plastic with a 100-year warranty. These products are virtually maintenance free. They don't fade, clean easily, and graffiti removes instantly. These systems have vandal-resistant stainless steel hardware and metal components that won't corrode or rust. Play Mart celebrates 27 years of designing and manufacturing creative, age group-specific play systems, fitness equipment, swings, site amenities, and ADA-accessible components that meet and exceed current safety standards.
www.playmart.com

IPCA's Playground Construction School
The International Playground Contractors Association holds a Playground Construction School, March 13-15, in Charlotte, NC. The Playground Construction School, developed by NPCAI, is a turnkey training curriculum that is designed specifically to meet the needs of the playground construction industry. The school covers a wide range of commercial playground installation techniques, tools, and issues, and will conclude with an installation of a structure on the final day. The school is not limited to playground contractors and installers - anyone interested in learning about the installation trade is welcome.
www.playground-contractors.org

SofTILE KrosLOCK from SofSURFACES
SofTILE KrosLOCK in an interlocking modular playground surfacing system with several exclusive design features. SofTILEs unique hollow core impact pedestal provides impact-absorbing capabilities. The KrosLOCK joining system has been engineered for ease and precision of installation, as well as vandal resistance. SofTILE is backed by an industry-leading 10-year warranty that specifically includes compliance with fall protection standards (ASTM F1292). Among one of the original manufacturers of recreational surfacing, SofSURFACES is a name that is well known and widely trusted.
www.sofsurfaces.com

Unity Surfacing Systems
Unity Surfacing Systems has developed and patented a resilient product made from 100 percent recycled tires and is clean and safe to use in any environment both indoors and out. Maintenance-free safety surfacing, flooring and paver products are a double tile-mat-block with an authentic, quadruple, interlocking design built directly into the product, thus eliminating the need for fasteners, pins, or clips. The patented tongue-and-groove technology is designed to snap and hook into place, which allows a monolithic step and repeat pattern that staggers the seams and interlocks for easier drainage, making them vandal resistant.
www.surfacingsystems.com

VeggieTales Fun Center 101 from Wow Playgrounds
Just released is the new VeggieTales Fun Center 101, a unique and wonderfully playful themed playground from WOW Playgrounds, focused on children ages 2-6, with lots of slides, climbing decks, imaginative play panels, and more than 20 play events to keep the kids coming back again and again with challenges and good healthy recreation and fun play. Priced very competitively, the unit assembles in just a few hours and will provide endless enjoyment and play from the lessons learned in the classroom brought out to the playground - and with close interplay with the VeggieTales characters.
www.wowplaygrounds.com

Zeager
Zeager is a leading playground surface manufacturer offering WoodCarpet, Bonded Woodcarpet, RecMat, and RecGrass surfaces. Bonded Woodcarpet is a poured-in-place wood fiber surface that greatly improves the accessibility of engineered wood fiber. The interlocking RecMat system offers exceptional performance. RecGrass is a soft, synthetic grass surface. Children love the grass look and cool feel all year long. No puddles or messy infill materials on this grass because the RecBase underneath provides excellent drainage and fall protection. All surfaces meet ADA, ASTM, CPSC and CSA guidelines and are distributed across North America.
www.zeager.com

BCI Burke's Intensity
BCI Burke has introduced Intensity, an innovative play complex designed to address the ever-alarming rate of obesity and inactivity in children. Intensity was developed to counteract these detrimental effects of inactivity targeted specifically for the 5 to 12-plus age group. The components have an innovative look and feel, which is one of the elements that intrigues and challenges children of this age. Rather than traditional slides, decks and climbers, Intensity components are more fitness-oriented and challenging to include grids of rope to work muscles whether climbing up or down, spinners that promote flexibility and core torso strengthening, discs that call for balance and agility or a glider that promotes coordination.
www.bciburke.com