WATER PLAY EQUIPMENT
Centrepiece of the newly refurbished Bicester Leisure Centre in Oxfordshire is the Certikin water play gear in the children’s teaching pool.
The interactive, colourful features include a frog, rainbow slide and mushroom water fountain
Vortex Seeflow™ and Funflow Actuator™ technologies. The multi-functional product cultivates collaborative play, integrating ten laminar jets on each leg as well as water gushing from the front and rear of the body once it has been activated using eight ground activators.
AN INTERACTIVE GAME FACTOR FROM ROIGK Roigk’s Sales Director Rémy Perron states: “Splash pads are getting more and more popular, as they are a key factor to the popularity of pools and water parks.” They attract children and their parents and bring life, games and laughs into the leisure area. The game factor together with its interactivity is the first criteria; children will create new games together with their friends again and again. Then, an appealing design fitting with the age category is very important. The more children identify themselves with the single toys, the more they will like the place. Last but not least when children discover the medium of ‘water’ with all senses and remember the new gained experience, an attraction is well conceived. Remy continues: “I remember my son coming home after his first time at the spray park calling ‘Papa, I want you to buy the water dragon for our garden’.” Roigk, who, for many years, have offered well designed toys predominantly to swimming pools operators, continuously develop and launch new water toys along three core principles. An attractive design which creates the difference, products availability at best costs of ownership and highest fun, game and learning factors for the children.
Roigk is pleased to announce through SPN a ‘news preview’ of a totally new range of interactive water attractions for
the beach area of swimming pools for water depths between 0.40m and 1.30m. Swimming pools can now receive a real alternative to the traditional mushrooms aging in their middle, losing each year a little more of their colour. This is ‘fresh oxygen’ in the water of European swimming pools and this reality has given the name of that range as ‘OXY’ which will be launched at the Aquanale and FSB Exhibition which runs from 27 – 30 October 2015.
SLIDING AROUND THE WORLD WITH COUNTRY LEISURE Country Leisure is a British manufacturer of water slides and water play attractions and has been producing high quality GRP mouldings since 1985 for the leisure industry worldwide. The company has been exporting for 29 years and has supplied goods to more than 50 different countries. In that time they have manufactured over 40,000 kilometres of water slide which if joined together would span further than the circumference of the earth. They are a member of the World Waterpark Association (WWA) and offer a complete design, manufacture and installation service. All new water slide installations are designed and manufactured in accordance with the latest industry standards to produce the very best quality products which are manufactured in-house under strict quality control procedures. Site work is carried out by their own experienced and qualified installation crews with the backup of specialist laminators and highly skilled finishers. Other services available include theming and refurbishment of existing installations and service maintenance contracts. Country Leisure also offers a free quotation service and can carry out inspections on existing installations.
and nurtures water confidence in younger swimmers”
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Toys and games add enjoyment to any pool, but more than that, it inspires
Van Egdom’s interactive play equipment
from Certikin will captivate the children’s imagination and provide hours of fun
A TAILORED SERVICE FROM HIPPO LEISURE
Plymouth based Hippo Leisure are a full service swimming pool and interactive water play company whose services and expertise reach from the plant room to putting smiles on childrens’ faces. Their team’s experience spans over 20 years of working within the swimming pool, leisure and water fun industry. Hippo’s focus on the design, manufacture and installation of interactive water play projects has been developed through the close study of their Little Hippo Kid Consultants, by investigating how different age groups behave in the swimming pool environment. Hippo’s detailed research has proven the impact new water play equipment has on increasing revenue, attracting new customers and retaining existing customers.
Studies have helped the company develop inclusive play products to encompass the whole family and all abilities and ages. Hippo Leisure have spent time developing products that will improve water confidence, encourage swimming activities and provide centre managers with versatile and flexible products.
Providing a service that is tailored to suit each customer’s needs from the supply of a strainer box to the development of a multi-flume slide installation is at the heart of Hippo’s core values. They are proud of the partnerships they hold with some of the UK’s premier leisure facilities and management companies and are always looking for ways to extend their innovative approach to more like minded businesses.
CERTIKIN PLAYS UP
“Our team can provide design expertise for projects of any size, and work around a chosen theme or suggest ideas. Our product range is extensive. Whether it is custom- build or off-the-shelf features you are after, we can supply the lot!” says Certikin’s Commercial Manager, Steve Nelson. Slides and play structures, in the shape of mermaids, giant taps and pirate
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