How to choose a Metalu Plast handball goal?

Metalu Plast manufactures a wide range of handball goals for competition, training or for school practice. Front frames, arches, material, fixation, coating… Dozens of combinations exist, but how to properly choose your handball goal? Metalu Plast tells you everything in this article.

Combine a front frame with arches to build a handball goal

A handball goal is made of two distinct elements : a front frame and a pair of arches to maintain the front frame. Dozens of frames and arches combinations enable us to provide you with an answer to any utilization mode with all the different frames, arches, material and coating options.

Which type of frame for which use?

Two types of front frames are available in the Metalu Plast product range. With a playable dimension of 3 x 2 m, they are made of 80 x 80 mm tubes, either aluminium or steel with net fixation nylon hooks.

The Madison front frame is our high-end goal. The PostLockⓇ assembly system design (registered design) ensures an exceptional front frame rigidity and is particularly adapted to high competition. The Madison front frames are made of galvanized steel.

The removable front frame is assembled with reinforced aluminium junction pieces. This type of front frames is adapted to training and to school use. The removable front frames are available either in steel or aluminium.

The PostLockⓇ system is a registered design that allows the posts locking with internal clamping plates. The system enables a very stiff assembly and ensures a perfect holding over time. With the PostLockⓇ system, the routing and the assembly of our products becomes as simple as with removable front frames, while offering an exceptional rigidity for high-level handball practice.

Concerning fixations, both front frames are available :

• in mobile version : the 2 m posts are designed to flush the ground. The lower part of the posts is locked with a plastic plug.
• in sleeve installation version : the 2,36 m posts include a 36 cm part for ground socketing. Aluminium sleeves are provided.

Which type of handball arches to choose?

In order to complete your handball goal, you will need to add a pair of arches that depends on the environment of use of the goal. Metalu Plast offers 7 types of arches which allow you to adapt your goal to the needed gameplay :

• Ø 50 mm fixed arches with a double stabilization bar and 4 anchors : used in competition and high competition. The double stabilization bar and the double anchoring system reinforce the solidity of the structure.
• Ø 50 mm fixed arches with stabilization bar and 2 anchors : used both for competition and high competition.
• Ø 32 mm fixed arches with or without stabilization bar and 2 anchors : recommanded for school use and for training.
• Folding arches with 2 anchors : folding arches are used in most cases to be added to an existing structure. These arches enable space-saving for the practice of another activity in the structure and an easier maintenance of the sports hall.
• Liftable arches : these arches are mostly used for training. Once lifted against the wall, they avoid storage after each use, which is a not negligible advantage for saving time and space.

Plastic-coated or with vinyl strips handball goal, which coating to choose for my handball goal?

The hanball front frames can be covered with two types of coating :

• Plastic-coated front frames : red and white stripes are painted through a plastic-coating process. This coating offers a better hold over time.
• Vinyl strips front frames : aluminium or steel front frames are painted in red and white vinyl strips are glued to the front frame. This coating is more economical and is recommended for an indoor use.

With our “Color+” option, a wide range of colors is available to personalize the handball goal.

A solution for school handball and street handball

Metalu Plast manufactures handball goals adapted to prim’hand (school handball goal with reduced dimensions), to street handball and to school handball. The plastic-coated galvanized steel goals are available in direct sealing or in a mobile version.

These 70 possible combinations in the Metalu Plast handball product range enable us to offer you a qualitative and certified Origine France Garantie solution that adapts to all of your projects and field configurations.

If you have a technical question or would like personalized support for your project, you can reach our sales team at 00 2 31 23 22 00 from Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm and on Friday until 5:00 pm.