Recreational
These high-performance materials are lightweight, weather-resistant, and require minimal maintenance—making them ideal for everything from amusement parks to sports facilities. These materials are built to endure the roughest conditions while providing the perfect balance of strength, safety, and fun.
Whether it’s playground equipment, basketball backboards, ice rink dasher boards or shielding, performance plastics ensure that your favorite activities are built to last. This equipment that withstands the elements, and heavy use over time, so you can focus on having fun without worry.
When it comes to recreation, trust performance plastics to bring durability and reliability to your equipment, so you can enjoy every moment to the fullest.
Materials
- Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS)
- Acetal (POM)
- Acrylic (PMMA)
- High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
- Nylon (PA)
- Polycarbonate (PC)
- Polyethylene (PE)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
Recreational Applications
- Swimming Pools — water treatment, pool enclosures, diving boards, piping
- Snowmobiles — skis, slide suspensions, sprockets, fuel lines, windshields, bumpers, bearings and bushings
- Amusement park rides — signage, housings, wheels, bumpers/rub rails, benches, piping, canopies
- Bowling alleys — pin guides, kick plates, ball returns, rollers
- Reproductions of jukeboxes — windows, housings
- Hockey shielding and dasher systems
Benefits
- Lightweight (easier to handle, store and less Weather, UV, fire and chemical resistant
- Sound deadening/attenuation
- Impact and wear resistance
- Provides variety of rolling resistances, load bearing capacities and hysteresis characteristics (for roller coaster designs)
- Shatterproof
- Easy to fabricate and thermoform
- Lower incidents of breakage means less need to maintain replacement stock
Did You Know?
The U.S. theme park Six Flags Great Adventure had the highest roller coaster worldwide in 2020; its attraction Kingda Ka was 139 meters high.