Playland commercial playground equipment and school playgrounds:

The original Playland was truly a family affair with the father and son team both fabricating and selling the company’s commercial playground products.

In 1990 Anthony Strickland took over the company as President and CEO and set out on a course to develop the beginnings of what is the current product line of modular commercial playground equipment, originally and fondly named Playland Systems.

Playland became a division of Superior International Industries in 1997. SII, as their customers know them, was founded in 1991 by Rob Pepper and Ray Derbecker as a components supplier to the playground industry. While building on their customer base, they partnered with one of the original founders of playland, Anthony Strickland, in 1997 to form the new playland which would also specialize in school playground equipment. This new partnership was unique because, as a group of investors and partners, they have spent their lives in the playground industry. They proudly say that Playland is one of the only playground manufacturers in the market today that has leaders that are lifelong “playground People.”

Then and now, Playland’s mission is to build high quality commercial playground equipment at an affordable price while maintaining the highest safety standards in the industry. With both domestic and international sales teams, playland has school playground equipment all over the world.

With over 300,000 square feet of combined manufacturing school playground equipment space and utilizing in-house technologies of rotational molding, metal fabrication and custom fabric forming, playland produces 95% of the playgrounds it sells. In a multi-phase manufacturing process for, playland uses Dura-Guard™ Galvanized Weld Protection, a pre-sanding and hand cleaning power prep process, and finally a baked- on powder-coat finishing process for the commercial playground equipment.

Quality engineering returns quality results. The playland design team utilizes SOLIDWORKS™ engineering software for new commercial playground equipment engineering and implementation.