Your Guide to Corkeen Play Surfacing
If you are unfamiliar with this surfacing option, let PlaySmart guide you through our wonderful playground safety flooring: Corkeen.
What is Corkeen?
Corkeen is the all-natural cork playground surface exclusively provided by PlaySmart. It could also become the newest addition to your playground project. Natural playground ideas are becoming more and more common with both developers and playground users. Therefore, sustainable cork playground surfaces are increasingly popular for children’s play areas.
Our Corkeen uses natural, renewable cork from the cork oak tree bark ethically sourced from Green Leader: Amorim. Sustainable solutions for playground tarmac have been at the forefront of modern playground design and development. Playsmart is proud to be helping innovate play spaces across the country with our quality natural cork flooring.
Where is Cork Flooring Used?
Corkeen natural cork flooring is a versatile flooring option with installation recommended for a range of outdoor purposes to benefit the design of a space.
Corkeen Cork Flooring is best used in:
- Playgrounds
- Leisure Spaces
- Recreational Areas
- Places with Sport or Play Equipment
- Running tracks
- Playground and Park Pathways
What does Corkeen Installation Involve?
Our amazing installation team has 25 years of playground installation experience to create the smoothest and highest quality playground surfacing. Installation of Corkeen is a unique design for playground flooring, but our team has you covered!
Our 90% natural cork is installed on site in an innovative two-layer system: the wear-resistant top layer, and shock-absorbent base layer. These are constructed from cork granules and binders engineered to the highest quality as durable and reliable.
Production and installation of this material follow the eco-friendly principles of the Circular Economy. This limits waste through reusing and recycling throughout the product life-cycle. Therefore, we are proud to announce that PlaySmart’s Corkeen system has a negative carbon balance in line with UK ISO 14040/44 material sustainability standards.
The carbon sequestration of the cork oak forests exceeds the CO2 emissions from Corkeen production. We have achieved a -10kg CO₂e/m² carbon balance for a 40mm thick Corkeen surface (25mm base layer & 15mm top layer). Amazing green innovation as the leading experts in UK play surfacing!
Benefits of Corkeen
Corkeen is a safe and durable surface for playgrounds suitable for any age or ability. The flat, shock-absorbent material is perfect for assuring full accessibility and reducing the risk of playground injury.
Here are a few of Corkeen’s key benefits that our customers love it for:
- Water resistance with great drainage capacity. Impermeable surfaces mean that the ground is protected from rain and ground-water seepage. Therefore Corkeen is perfect for areas where flooding or boggy ground are recurring problems.
- Fire and heat resistant. Cork as a natural insulator is a great way to ensure safety from fire hazards on the playground.
- Durable and long-lasting
- High friction coefficient. The material is highly slip-resistant and stable, allowing easy accessibility for buggies and wheelchairs as well as keeping everyone safe.
- Hypoallergenic and free from harmful chemicals.
- Shock absorbent. The structure of Corkeen and the natural compressibility of the natural cork material reduce risks of damage from falls.
- Recyclable eco-friendly material. In the production of cork, the Cork Oak is not felled, the bark is instead peeled from the trunk every 9 years once matured. Therefore, Cork Oaks are long-lasting, with an average life expectancy of 200 years!
Is Corkeen Right for your playground?
Read our full and comprehensive brochure guide for more details on PlaySmart’s Corkeen cork playground surface solutions
Get in touch today and our expert advisors will be happy to help guide you on your next playground project. Simply fill in our handy contact form or call our team at 01564 721811.
