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Tables and chairs

  • Folding Chair
  • Stacking Chair
  • Folding tables
  • Round tables
  • Personal tables
  • Picnic tables
  • Camp and sport tables

Basketball Systems

  • Portable Residential Basketball Systems
  • In-ground Residential Basketball Systems
  • Bolt-down Residential Basketball Systems
  • Adjustable-Height Basketball Systems (portable, in-ground, and bolt-down)
  • Rim and Backboard Stationary Combinations

Lawn and Garden

  • Yard cart
  • Wheel barrow
  • Revolving compost bin
  • Glider bench
    Bench (furniture)
    A bench is a piece of furniture, on which several people may sit at the same time. Benches are typically made of wood, but may also be made of metal, stone, or synthetic materials. Many benches have arm and back rests; some have no back rest and can be sat on from either side. In public areas,...

  • Deck
    Deck (building)
    In architecture, a deck is a flat surface capable of supporting weight, similar to a floor, but typically constructed outdoors, often elevated from the ground, and usually connected to a building...

     box

Playground equipment

  • Outdoor playset
    Outdoor playset
    -Components:Typical components of an outdoor playset include:* Towers. In a playset, a tower is a vertical structure with one or more decks placed at various levels...

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  • Commercial play systems
  • Teeter totters
    Seesaw
    A seesaw is a long, narrow board pivoted in the middle so that, as one end goes up, the other goes down.-Mechanics:Mechanically a seesaw is a lever and fulcrum....

  • Dome climbers
    Jungle gym
    The jungle gym, monkey bars, or climbing frame, is a piece of playground equipment made of many pieces of material, such as metal pipe or rope, on which children can climb, hang, or sit. The monkey bar designation refers to the rambunctious, climbing play of monkeys.-History:The first jungle gym...

  • Swing sets
    Swing (seat)
    A swing is a hanging seat, usually found at playgrounds for children, a circus for acrobats, or on a porch for relaxing. The seat of a swing may be suspended from chains or ropes. Once a swing is in motion it continues to oscillate like a pendulum until external interference or drag brings it to a...

  • Tetherball
    Tetherball
    Tetherball is a North American game for two opposing players. The equipment consists of a stationary metal pole, from which is hung a volleyball from a rope, or tether. The two players stand on opposite sides of the pole. Each player tries to hit the ball one way; one clockwise, and one...

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Kayaks

  • Sit-on-top Kayaks
  • Sit-Inside Kayaks
  • Youth Kayaks
  • Paddleboards
    Paddleboarding
    Paddleboarding is a surface water sport in which the participant is propelled by a swimming motion usually on a long surfboard close to the shore. A derivative of paddleboarding is stand up paddle surfing.-History:...

  • Canoe
    Canoe
    A canoe or Canadian canoe is a small narrow boat, typically human-powered, though it may also be powered by sails or small electric or gas motors. Canoes are usually pointed at both bow and stern and are normally open on top, but can be decked over A canoe (North American English) or Canadian...

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EcoHouse

Lifetime is currently developing the inexpensive and low maintenance EcoHouse. The EcoHouse is an 11 feet (3.4 m) by 38 feet (11.6 m) fabricated house made from plastic reinforced with steel. It can be set up quickly, and will be used for impoverished
Poverty
Poverty is the lack of a certain amount of material possessions or money. Absolute poverty or destitution is inability to afford basic human needs, which commonly includes clean and fresh water, nutrition, health care, education, clothing and shelter. About 1.7 billion people are estimated to live...

 areas, along with providing quick shelter during emergency management
Emergency management
Emergency management is the generic name of an interdisciplinary field dealing with the strategic organizational management processes used to protect critical assets of an organization from hazard risks that can cause events like disasters or catastrophes and to ensure the continuance of the...

 and disaster-relief operations.

The EcoHouse uses minimal resources to construct, which results in a smaller carbon footprint
Carbon footprint
A carbon footprint has historically been defined as "the total set of greenhouse gas emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person.". However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is...

 than other housing. The homes can be configured to be fully self-sustaining, using solar panels
Photovoltaic module
A solar panel is a packaged, connected assembly of solar cells, also known as photovoltaic cells...

, bio-digester
Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion is a series of processes in which microorganisms break down biodegradable material in the absence of oxygen. It is used for industrial or domestic purposes to manage waste and/or to release energy....

 systems, and water tank
Water tank
A Water tank is a container for storing water. The need for a water tank is as old as civilized man, providing storage of water for drinking water, irrigation agriculture, fire suppression, agricultural farming, both for plants and livestock, chemical manufacturing, food preparation as well as many...

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EcoHouses are manufactured at the company's manufacturing facilities in Utah.

Lifetime Metals

Lifetime Metals produces processed steel items for both Lifetime Products, and for other manufacturers in the region. Services provided include coil slitting and leveling, shearing, stamping with Minster
Minster Machine Company
The Minster Machine Company is an American manufacturer of machine presses and other metalworking equipment, and a provider of related services.-Overview:...

 machine press
Machine press
A machine press, commonly shortened to press, is a machine tool that changes the shape of a workpiece.-Servomechanism:A servomechanism press, also known as a servo press or a electro press, is a press driven by an AC servo motor. The torque produced is converted to a linear force via a ball screw....

es, tube
Pipe (material)
A pipe is a tubular section or hollow cylinder, usually but not necessarily of circular cross-section, used mainly to convey substances which can flow — liquids and gases , slurries, powders, masses of small solids...

 mill operations, roll forming
Roll forming
Roll forming, also spelled rollforming, is a continuous bending operation in which a long strip of sheet metal is passed through sets of rolls mounted on consecutive stands, each set performing only an incremental part of the bend, until the desired cross-section profile is obtained...

, and other processes.

Lifetime Store

Lifetime owns and operates the retail chain
Chain store
Chain stores are retail outlets that share a brand and central management, and usually have standardized business methods and practices. These characteristics also apply to chain restaurants and some service-oriented chain businesses. In retail, dining and many service categories, chain businesses...

 Lifetime Store, formerly called Backyards Inc. There are several locations in Utah.

Patents and innovations

  • 1986 - Introduced and patented the first adjustable basketball pole on the market
  • 1992 - Introduced its line of portable basketball systems
  • 1992 - Invented and patented the friction weld joint for basketball poles
  • 1993 - Invented a blow-molded base that is airtight and watertight
  • 1995 - Invented blow molded polyethylene tabletops
  • 1995 - Invented a fully assembled, folding picnic table
  • 1996 - Invented the Power Lift, the first one-hand, pneumatic height adjustment mechanism
  • 1998 - Introduced blow-molded polyethylene folding banquet tables
  • 2000 - Introduced the only folding chair to meet or exceed BIFMA standards
  • 2001 - Introduced Mammoth Basketball Equipment, a line of professional-quality home basketball systems
  • 2004 - Introduced the Shatter Proof Backboard, the first virtually unbreakable backboard made with Makrolon polycarbonate
  • 2004 - Introduced a line of officially licensed NCAA tables
  • 2005 - Introduced its multi-branded line of outdoor storage sheds
  • 2006 - Introduced an innovative new line of steel utility trailers
  • 2007 - Introduced the first fold-in-half trailer
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