The Playpower UK Manufacturing plant in Selby, North Yorkshire is the largest manufacturing facility of its kind in the UK. It is here that we design and manufacture our products, monitoring quality at every stage of the process whilst also controlling volumes and capacity. Efficient stock control enables a quick and well managed turnaround from order to installation.

The Playpower UK manufacturing team are highly skilled craftsmen. Our welders are independently tested annually to ensure quality is of a continuous high standard. This procedure ensures that any further training requirements are identified and programmed.

Manufacture and Materials

We use the latest technology to make our products aesthetically pleasing as well as the most durable you can buy. Only the best British raw materials combined with tried and tested techniques are used in the manufacture of our equipment. This is why we are confident of offering all our customers low maintenance, durable and vandal-resistant products.

Steel

All our structural steelwork meets EN10210-2. We offer a 20 year guarantee on steel.

Paint Finish

The state of the art powder coating facility has a continuous powered 75m track and is capable of handling items up to 5m in length 1.2m in width and 1.5m in height. The equipment has 2 in line painting booths with full powder recovery facilities and a one large off line booth to accommodate the largest of components. This environmentally friendly process produces zero solvent emissions. We offer a 5 year guarantee on paint.

Stage 1 : Surface Pre-Treatment

• 4 grit-blast booths have been installed

• All steelwork is blast cleaned to grade Sa2.5 in accordance with ISO 8501-1

• This gives a jagged key of around 75m.

Stage 2 : Primary Layer

• All steelwork is coated with a layer of zinc rich epoxy primer powder, Interpon PZ 770 (previously we used PZ 660)

• This gives a total thickness of 60 – 90m

• Green cured (i.e. under cured) for 10 minutes at 160º

• This provides an adhesion for the coloured polyester powder

Stage 3 : Topcoat

• All steelwork is finally coated with a layer of coloured polyester powder, Interpon 610 range.

• To a further thickness of 60 – 90m

• This is then cured for 10 minutes at 200º

This new paint system has been passed the ISO9227 Salt Spray Test and has been shown to withstand over 3000 hours. Our previous system was subjected to a less aggressive test for only 2000 hours. For the purposes of these tests, this is the equivalent of approximately 15 years.

Timber

Manufactured to meet the increasingly high quality requirements of the play and leisure industry, our specially selected and harvested Radiata pine logs are highly resistant to air cracking during the drying out process and therefore ideal for use in the creation of innovative ECO play projects. Our FSC certified ECO machined round and half round timbers are pressure treated with Osmose Naturewood in accordance with BS 8417. We offer a 10 year guarantee on timber. FSC (The Forest Stewardship Council) is an international, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting responsible management of the world’s forests.

Tamper Resistant fixings

All the bolts used in our products are vandal-resistant, 'resistorx' head fixings. The majority of fixings are hidden inside steel channels to deter illicit tampering.