1952
QE Manufacturing Company Opens Its Doors
Bob Miller (1st generation) starts a precision machine part manufacturing company in central PA.
1959
Our Passion for Play Is Born
We begin supplying products for other playground companies.
1971
Dale Miller Establishes Playworld Brand
Dale Miller (2nd generation) establishes his own commercial play equipment manufacturing company and begins to build a distributor network.
1977
We Begin Producing Wooden Play Structures
1985
We Reinvent the "Traditional" Play System
Q-Series (now Playmakers) becomes a safer, more durable, value-engineered post-and-platform playground system.
1985
Early Childhood Brand is Established
PlayDesigns (now PlayExplorers) is created to meet the developmental needs of children five and under, using details like texture, bright colors, lower steps and smaller handholds.
1987
Challengers Product Line is Introduced
A post-and-platform system is created specifically for smaller footprint playgrounds and modest budgets.
1993
New Plant Opens in New Berlin, PA
This facility later becomes the Playworld Rotomold plant.
1999
KaBOOM! Partnership Begins
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to giving all kids the childhood they deserve, filled with balanced and active play, so they can thrive.
1999
Lewisburg Corporate Headquarters is Established
2004
LifeTrail Brand is Introduced
A low-impact, functional fitness, outdoor wellness system is created to help older adults stay fit, prevent injury, and maintain an independent lifestyle.
2008
NEOS Brand is Established
An outdoor electronic playground is created to combine the appeal of video games with the explosive movement of aerobic exercise.
2009
Nature Play Products are Introduced
Super durable PolyFiberCrete material offers a lifelike look and feel for dino bones and boulders.
2010
ENERGI Total Body Fitness System Introduced
Determined to join the country in the fight against obesity, we design ENERGI to provide playful, progressively challenging exercises that support cardiovascular and muscular health.
2010
Let Kids Play! Partnership Begins
Playworld partners with Mara Kaplan, founder of Let Kids Play!, to optimize equipment for children with disabilities and increase efforts to create more inclusive playgrounds.
2011
PlaySimple Brand is Created
When budgets across many markets got tighter, we designed PlaySimple: an affordable line of professional-grade playground products.
2014
Unity Collection is Introduced
The collection continues with twists on the classics of freestanding play—reimagined to promote even more interaction and cooperation.
2015
Play Sculpture is Invented
In an effort to rethink playground design and reunite communities in outdoor play, Playworld combined public art and play equipment to create its first play sculpture: PlayForm 7.
2016
Branch Out Gives New Life to Post-and-Platform
Branch Out offers the appealing scale and features of nature play in an efficient, open layout that creates endless new possibilities for post and platform playgrounds.
2016
PlayCubes are REintroduced by Playworld
Originally introduced in the 1960s by Architect Richard Dattner, an exclusive partnership between Dattner and Playworld gave new life to the once popular playground equipment.
2016
PlayPower® Acquires Playworld
PlayPower, Inc. is the world's largest, fully integrated manufacturer of commercial playground equipment, shade structures, and floating dock systems and lifts for boats and personal water craft.
2017
Playworld + Design Museum Foundation
The Extraordinary Playscapes exhibition tour made its fourth and final stop in Chicago, IL. Playworld partnered with DMF to create pop-up play spaces across the nation and showcase the importance of play and play space design.
2018
infiNET Makes Its Debut
Our hybrid “netform” solution with dynamic climbing challenges and barrier-free platform nets welcomes kids of all ages and skill levels to explore and conquer new territories together.
2019
ModPods™
ModPods™ are designed to be more challenging than a flat plane climber, bringing kids together in an imaginative play space that invites exploration. Branch Out Anchors connect to Branch Out via rope or flex tread. Constructed of mixed materials that inspire imaginative play, Branch Out Anchors features complex rung and rope patterns providing climbing path variety.
