The Design of Playtop^®

Playtop® is a continuous, porous material made from rubber granules and polyurethane binders. It is mixed and laid on site as a wet-pour product.  It is immensely strong and durable, retaining its life-saving deformation properties over many years of the hardest use children can give it.

Playtop® consists of two layers: a base layer of coarse (20 mm mesh) black granules made from recycled tyre rubber, and a coloured top layer of much finer EPDM rubber granules.  These are intimately interlocked to give the surface its strength.

It was Charles Lawrence who discovered that the rubber used in truck tyres has ideal mechanical properties for play surfacing, and can be recovered from scrap tyres at remarkably low cost.

Now the Group’s own tyre recycling plant ensures the availability of clean, sharply cut rubber granules in the desired sizes, quantities and quality.  With this inexpensive raw material, we can build surfaces to the highest standards without compromising on thickness.

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