Family Owned SYNLawn Company Gives Back to Local Community

Chatsworth, GA – The Peeples family name is as widely recognized throughout Northern Georgia as much as their family owned company, SYNLawn, is recognized around the world as the leader in synthetic landscape turf products. And, on March 12, 2016, both the Peeples name and SYNLawn became the cornerstone for Murray County, Georgia’s youth to exercise their bodies and imagination …

Case Study: The Pursuit of Safe Play, Pt. 3

As noted in part 1 and part 2 of our case study series, ensuring that kids are safe while playing on the playground is important for principals and staff members. However, some playground surface types require more maintenance than others and can ultimately compromise the safety of the play areas. When playground maintenance became a bear for the Lee’s Summit …

Case Study: The Pursuit of Safe Play, Pt. 2

As noted in part 1 of our case study, keeping kids safe at school is an ongoing initiative for principals and school staff. As research confirmed, many of those injuries are due to the playground surface material. When the Blue Springs School District noted opportunities to reduce playground injuries, they aggressively researched improved playground surfaces. They looked to their friends …

Receiving the John Preston Award for Child Safety

BLUE SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT RECEIVES JOHN PRESTON AWARD FOR CHILD SAFETY Dalton, GA — The National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) recently issued their annual John Preston Award given to a group or organization that has made a difference in creating S.A.F.E. play areas for children. This year’s award went to the Blue Springs School District in Blue Springs, Missouri. …

SYNLawn recieves IPEMA certification

As a proud member of IPEMA (International Playground Equipment Manufacturers Association), SYNLawn is proud to announce the certification of 6 playground installation methods. When it comes to your kids, nothing is more important than safety. That is why SYNLawn continues to refine our synthetic turf products and installation standards for IPEMA compliant SYNLawn Playground Systems. With an IPEMA certified installation …
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Bright Beginnings in Kansas City

Dodge City, KS — Setting out to improve the play area at the Bright Beginnings Early Childhood Center, local Public School officials embarked on a mission to convert a large asphalt court area into a safe, usable playground area for their students. While attending the 2010 Kansas Parks and Recreation Trade Show earlier this year, representatives visited SYNLawn’s show booth …

SYNLawn at the conservation forefront

Las Vegas, NV — As local municipalities, city and state governments look for cost-effective ways to go "green" and save money, SYNLawn artificial grass continues to emerge at the forefront of the conservation push. Officials of South Las Vegas city, Henderson, NV looked to SYNLawn to replace several of Henderson’s parks and playground areas, converting them from hot rubber surfaces …

The New Green at Rockaway Beach

Rockaway Beach, NY — Thanks to tax dollars hard at work helping to improve public schools, an effort which began as a simple improvement to a school’s playgrounds became something much more. Located in Rockaway Beach New York, planners began to seek a sensible solution to replace the existing sandy, sea-level playground surfaces with something safe for the children and …