Playground Structures

Landscape Structures introduced the Conical Climber, a playground event that features real climbing-gym style handholds mounted on a flexible, high-strength PVC material. The Conical Climber provides a challenging rock climbing experience, and can be used with the PlayBooster and PlayShaper systems from Landscape Structures.

The reinforced PVC belt material used on the climbers is mounted to a tubular steel frame that is anchored to the ground. The movement of the flexible material within the frame provides an added challenge to climbers as they make their way to the top.

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Recreational Equipment

Most Dependable Fountains Inc. offers a line of outdoor water play products. The Play Tower 1 and Play Tower 3 complete the new Play Tower line.

The products are designed to operate by use of a metered valve that can be set to run from 15 seconds to five minutes. Each Play Tower offers a unique distribution of water ranging from a circle waterfall to gentle spray to a strong spout. By combining these units, users can create a safe water play park. Fountains come in nine powder-coated colors.

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Ground-To-Deck Climber

Landscape Structures introduced the Sky Rail, a challenging piece of play equipment that comes in two forms: an integrated ground-to-deck climber or an independent structure. The Sky Rail gives kids a climbing challenge that builds upper-body strength and coordination. It also offers playground planners a climbing structure that adds visual and aesthetic interest to their playground. As an integrated component, the climber presents a creative and challenging way to move from the ground to a 64-inch or 72-inch deck. Its shape offers a variety of climbing routes.

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Playground Equipment

A new collection of activities, Galaxy Dynamic, is being offered by Kompan. The Pulsar, Dorado, Canopus, and Flexus are activities that create dynamic play areas for spinning, surfing, climbing, and rocking. The product is designed for ages 5-12 and, according to the company, provides a complex play environment that challenges minds and bodies.

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Sport Surfaces

Vibra-Whirl Ltd. is the producer and installer of sport surfaces, including Omni Track and Spiketop. The Omni latex all-weather track choices include the Omni System “B,” in which black rubber chips are bound together with a specially-formulated black rubber latex. A black polymeric coating is sprayed on the finish surface, resulting in an entirely black surface.

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Synthetic Sports Surface

Poligras from Sports Technology International, a division of Advanced Polymer Technology, is a synthetic turf sports surfacing and is now available in two distinct formats, Poligras NF and Poligras 2000.

Poligras NF is a 2-inch-plus slit-film polyethylene fiber tufted into a dual layer of woven polypropylene and coated with a durable and stable polyurethane. Poligras 2000 is good for wet playing conditions, the company says, and consists of a 0.5-inch polypropylene fiber tufted into a double primary backing and coated with polyurethane.

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Sports Surface

Sport Court surfaces are designed to offer safe, suspended systems that ease the shock on joints, the company says. The flooring surfaces and multipurpose gyms are versatile enough to switch from volleyball to basketball to non-athletic uses, such as meetings.

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Turf Fabric

FieldTurf does not depend on an underlying shock pad for resilience and player comfort. Instead, the grass fibers are surrounded and stabilized by the company’s patented mixture of smooth rounded silica sand and rubber granules. Tire rubber is cryogenically frozen, shattered into smooth, clean, rounded particles and sized and shaped to stay “in suspension” with the silica sand. The sand and rubber are precision layered for uniformity.

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Artificial Grass

The FieldTurf system employs a shock-absorbing rubber/sand infill surrounding each blade of smooth synthetic grass. The special infill gives FieldTurf the same torque release as natural grass and allows cleated shoes to easily penetrate, rotate and release, minimizing the chance for motion related injury, according to the company. Maintenance fees are a fraction of the upkeep costs required to sustain a grass field.

The unique construction also allows athletes to slide on the surface, eliminating the incidence of “turf toe,” a common ailment on carpeted surfaces.

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