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Miracle was the first to design and manufacture playgrounds and sets for the fast food industry. It purchased the Setmaker Company in California, and with the help of Claude's son, Paul Ahrens, creating playground designs for fast food giant McDonald's. The firm had installed play equipment at over 500 McDonald's throughout the USA.
Playworld began in 1952 as QE Manufacturing Company, which made parts for heavy machinery. [2] The company expanded its operations to playground equipment seven years later in 1959. [3] In 1971, Playworld Systems became its own company. [4] In January 1999, Playworld Systems moved to its current corporate headquarters in Lewisburg. [5]
Lifetime Products Inc. is a privately owned company founded in Its main products are blow-molded polyethylene folding chairs and tables, picnic tables, home basketball equipment, [2] sheds, coolers, kayaks and paddleboards, and lawn and garden items, along with OEM steel and plastic items from other companies.
With this MTD began to manufacture pedal bikes, velocipedes, kiddie cars and playground equipment. In 1954 MTD entered the garden equipment industry with its introduction of a line of wheelbarrows. In 1958 MTD entered the lawn and garden power equipment industry with the production of an 18-inch (46 cm) power rotary mower.
In the mid-1980s, CBS revived the Creative Playthings name to use on a line of wooden playground equipment. These were produced in Herndon, PA, and a CBS-owned plant, which had also made Tinkertoys. After CBS divested itself of its toy lines beginning in 1985, the name was sold to a playground equipment manufacturer in Framingham, MA.
Playgrounds with equipment that children may fall off often use rubber mulch on the ground to help cushion the impact. [27] Playgrounds are also made differently for different age groups. Often schools have a playground that is taller and more advanced for older schoolchildren and a lower playground with less risk of falling for younger children.
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