A Brief History of Playtop^®

Celebrating its Silver Jubilee in 2002, Playtop^® has been Britain’s market-leading playground surface throughout those twenty-five years. It has maintained its position against competitors and imitators by continually upgrading the technical performance while finding ways to bring down the cost.The very first installation of Playtop^® was on a housing estate near Loughborough, Leicestershire in 1977.  At that time, the product consisted of 12 mm thickness of porous rubber laid on asphalt or concrete, with a sprayed top coat.  It clearly provided better cushioning than traditional hard playground surfaces, but there was no scientific basis for its performance

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