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A new interior design collection from industry leader wodego GmbH won rave reviews from processors, architects and the general public at BAU 2009 for a product assortment that includes a total of 272 designs categorized in three main sections: the colour match collection, HPL-Extra collection, and the Duropal worktop collection. The three-tiered collection leverages the expertise of wodego and its sister company Duropal, like wodego also a subsidiary of Pfleiderer AG, to give processors and architects a collection of practical, beautiful and even lush woodbased surface treatments that will provide design continuity from 2009 until 2012.

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Germany’s VARIOTEC GmbH, a leader in wall and door systems that specifically target the energy-optimized building sector, gave visitors to Bau 2009 a close-up look at a product program that does much more than just meet future’s stricter European stand ards for energy efficiency. The VARIOTEC approach also offers a new perspective on concepts such as sustainability and usability by giving architects and builders the ability to plan, build and renovate for the future with windows, doors and sandwich elements that are already available on today’s market.

Germany’s RS Torsysteme GmbH, an expert in a variety of high-tech door systems, has announced an addition to its product line-up that even James Bond could hardly imagine: a new folding door system that so thoroughly “disappears” into a building’s exterior façade that it is barely visible from the outside. Better still, engineers at RS Torsysteme have designed the new folding door so that it sits absolutely flush with the exterior façade. Given the fact that there are virtually no limitations with respect to the materials that can be used on the system’s exterior skin, the new folding door gives architects a new level of creative freedom in building design.

CETA Elektromechanik, the inventor of the Intelligate sliding gate drive mechanism, has once again demonstrated its commitment to innovation at R+T 2009, the international trade fair for roller shutters, doors, gates and sun protection held from February 10-14 at the Neue Messe fairgrounds in Stuttgart, Germany. CETA’s latest sliding gate model, the SunGate, won rave reviews from R+T fairgoers for a feature list that includes Intelligate technology, an onboard motor, a solar power supply and a unique integrated unlocking mechanism that makes it possible to simultaneously operate the gate in motorized and manual modes.

German lighting and building management specialist Seebacher GmbH has reported a second straight year of record or nearrecord growth. Turnover in fiscal 2008 increased by 25% for the Bad Tölz-based company, only slightly behind the 33% increase of fiscal 2007. Earnings also increased in both years and the company added eight new employees, mostly highly qualified engineers. The company managed a successful association between specialization and general purpose with the clear expertise “around the light” and the whole range of the entire concept. In its 20-year history, Seebacher has completed more than 1,600 projects in the fields of electrical engineering, air conditioning, heating and energy management.