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2 February 2024

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What makes a playpen ball premium?

It’s sure that everyone met nice colourful, round,... but poor quality plastic playpen balls in playhouses or at home. Unfortunately, these balls, which are often ruined in a short time, are often end up in a hidden corner of the playhouse or the room, holey, flattened, useless, in piles waiting to be thrown away – this is the image that comes to mind for most people when they think of the ever-popular playpen balls, because that’s what they have experienced.

The reason for this is that many companies distribute balls with such thin walls that they only take the shape of a ball until they are not in use. However, playpen balls can be of good quality.

Premium quality, also in playpen balls!

At EURO-MATIC – as in the case of all our products – we focus on the highest possible quality in the production of playpen balls. This is the guarantee that our customers will remain satisfied not only when paying, but also later on, when using the balls.

Thanks to our accumulated know-how and regular improvements, the quality of our products has become a worldwide benchmark. However, this does not mean that we lean back and take the outstanding quality for granted.

Our balls are regularly tested!

Our playpen balls are monitored during production, with various measurements and tests. During a test, a randomly selected sample is subjected to much more stress than in a playhouse, as it is compressed to half its original diameter 20,000 times in cycles.

Balls only meet the high quality requirements if they do not break after 20,000 compressions.

If that’s not enough, our balls are also tested at TÜV Rheinland’s central laboratory in Budapest, where they are checked to ensure they meet the safety and health requirements for toys under the European Union Directive. As a result, our balls can carry the CE (Conformité Européenne) mark, which guarantees safety.

The raw material of our balls is food grade!

We select our materials to ensure that they meet both the demands of use and the safety and health requirements for toys. Accordingly, the LDPE (low density polyethylene) raw material used is also suitable even for food packaging. Our playpen balls are surely BPA, phthalate and PVC free!

It is no exaggeration to say that the durability and lifespan of Euro Plus playpen balls is second to none!

Available in an incredible range of colours and four sizes, our premium quality reusable playpen balls with a two-year guarantee can be customised with your own logo, graphique or image. But that doesn’t mean that’s all they’ll last!

Under normal use, the lifetime of the balls is the multiple of the warranty period. The replacement of our product is usually needed by aesthetic aspect, as their surface loses from shininess over time.

We don’t play when it comes to production

Our playpen balls are made from safe materials with a proper know-howand are only released to the market after rigorous testing. Our balls are therefore premium products!

Product

Playpen balls

The Euro-Matic playpen ball is the perfect choice for indoor play areas, for playhouse builders and event organizers. With our balls, anyone can create a fun atmosphere in their home, right in the middle of the living room.

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WIDE RANGE OF BALL SIZE

50 mm
- Therapy™
60 mm
- for kindergartens
75 mm
- standard size
80 mm
- for bigger Ball Pools

COLOR SELECTION

Standard colors
- white, yellow, orange, red, green, blue
Other colours
- 25 other available colors from our current color range
Mixed color bags
- a mixture of 2-3-4-5-6 colors
Individual colors
- any special colors can be produced based on RAL or Pantone scale

MATERIAL

Playpen Balls are made from LDPE (low-density polyethylene).

When selecting the raw materials, we sought to maximize compliance with stress arising from use, safety and health requirements for toys (Directive 2009/48/EC). Hence, according to the authorities of the European Union and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the raw materials we use are even suitable for food packaging. Playpen Balls are guaranteed to be BPA, phthalate and PVC free.

QUALITY

Thanks to our professional expertise and continuous development accumulated over the last decades, the quality of our playpen balls has become the standard all over the world. However, this will never be taken for granted, so we regularly check our balls using various measurements and testing procedures in-production. During the testing procedures, randomly selected samples are subjected to much greater stress than any playpen ball will ever experience in a playhouse by compression testing 20,000 times, cyclically to 50% of the original diameter. The balls pass this rigorous test if they do not burst after 20,000 compressions. Based on this, it is no exaggeration to say, that the strength and life expectancy of our Euro-Plus Playpen Balls are unsurpassed.

Our balls are tested at the Budapest Central Laboratory of TÜV Rheinland, where it is checked if they are in compliance with the safety and health requirements for toys in accordance with 2009/48/EK directive of the European Union and on MSZ EN 71 standard.

GUARANTEE and LIFETIME

Due to strict quality control and rigorous testing procedures, we offer a 2-year guarantee for every Playpen Ball in case of conventional use. It is important to note, that the service life is multiple times the guarantee, as our balls do not burst under extreme, playhouse conditions either. The replacement of our balls is generally due to aesthetics as their surface loses their shininess.

PERSONALIZED PLAYPEN BALLS

Our manufacturing technology makes it possible to make the balls unique according to your needs. Currently, there are two ways to do this. One is to print caption, logo, graphic or image on the surface of the balls. The other one is to embed the desired logo or caption (like company name, event name, slogan, advertisement text, phone number, website address, etc.) to the ball.

RECYCLING

LDPE can be recycled easily, therefore it is collected selectively at the end of the service life of the balls and – in compliance with the waste management rules of the given country – reused as a valuable raw material for the production of new products.