Berliner Materials
“Since we produce everything at one location, we are very flexible in planning and the colour design.”
With a team of around 150 employees, we manufacture complete playgrounds. High-quality materials and first-class processing make our playground equipment robust and long-lasting. This protects the children and the environment, saving resources and follow-up costs. The steel we use consists of 70 percent recycled material and the aluminium is even 85 percent of recycled material. Our entire production takes place without PVC. We feed any excess material into the recycling loop.
Our powder coating process is solvent-free and all our products meet or exceed the regulations for lead in paint, lead in substrate and phthalates. Everything is produced at the Berlin location: from rope production with specially developed machines to the assembly and processing of the ropes into spatial nets and planar nets for various climbing structures, as well as steel construction and the design and production of entire playhouses and the related processing of bamboo, wood and HDPE.
Bamboo
For the panels of the playhouses of our Greenville product group we use bamboo panels. Since bamboo is not wood, but a grass, it grows back again quickly after harvesting. The carbon footprint of bamboo is therefore remarkable, because it can grow up to one metre a day. In addition, bamboo is very strong and durable, which makes it ideal for further processing.
Powder Coating
At our in-house powder coating process, we coat a wide range of connecting elements made of aluminium and pipes, mainly made of black steel, up to a length of 8 metres and a weight of 200 kilogrammes. This also includes our AstemTT® system ball or Terranos-Clamps, which are given their desired colour after the sandblasting process. This is why we are also flexible in the processing of steel and aluminium and can respond individua
HDPE
For the processing of HDPE we can mill the panels in-house to any shape according to the customer’s wishes and thus build e.g. theme-specific Terranos or Triitopia structures. In addition, HDPE panels are also used for our Greenville, Spooky Rookie, and LevelUp series as a base and allow us to use the bamboo, wooden, and perforated panels as cladding for the houses and platform structures. The HDPE panels can also be found in numerous other places of our play equipment, such as on the windows and doors of our playhouses.
Steel
For our playground equipment, we use tubes made of stainless steel or black steel. To avoid contamination of the stainless steel during processing, the stainless steel and black steel areas are kept separate. In our bending machines we can bend steel tubes with a diameter of up to 133 millimetres. The stainless steel tubes are mostly left natural. The black steel pipes are galvanised or sandblasted and can afterwards undergo our powder coating process.
Aluminium
Our connecting elements are made of aluminium and we can carry out the individual drillings ourselves. The patented AstemTT® tensioning system is a vital component of our spatial nets, as it represents a link between the pipes and the rope. The TerranosClamps are mainly used in our low rope courses and enable us to attach ropes to the posts. Since we drill the holes for our connecting elements ourselves, we are very flexible in the planning and construction of our play equipment.
Rope
Our rope comes from our own rope production with machines specially Greenville product developed for this purpose. This ensures that the quality and technical specification of the ropes always meet our high standards. Therefore we can offer our customers an extensive range of diameters, metallic cross-sections, and colour variations and always have the right rope for a wide range of applications. In the rope assembly department, our employees create spatial and planar nets by hand, using the single rope strands.
