Franke has added the new AQUINA stainless steel washbasin to the high-quality XINOX® sanitary line. This elegant washbasin sets another aesthetic highlight and matches the high-quality line of sanitary accessories.
Franke is presenting two new children’s washbasins made of MIRANIT at this year’s ISH. This resin-bonded mineral material with its excellent moulding properties provides the ideal material characteristics for wash solutions suitable for children.
Franke has now included the new RODAN series of accessories in its range of products. The classic design of RODAN stainless steel accessories with their square-edge side profiles are suitable for the modern fitting of heavily used washrooms and WC facilities. These accessories give planners and operators the option to design individual sanitary room concepts in public and commercial areas in a price-conscious but aesthetic manner.
MIRANIT, a new composite granite material, is a unique combi-nation of strength and design capabilities used to create a new generation of washbasins. This material is a stable compound consisting of natural minerals and a high-quality unsaturated polyester resin.
MIRANIT, a new composite granite material, is a unique combi-nation of strength and design capabilities used to create a new generation of washbasins. This material is a stable compound consisting of natural minerals and a high-quality unsaturated polyester resin.
The sanitary line XINOX sets an aesthetic tone in interior sanitary room equipment for high-quality, bathroom and WC facilities. The XINOX line covers products ranging from paper-towel dispensers to washbasins, and offers a fantastic choice of accessories and fitting elements made of stainless steel. Practice has proven this elegant and timelessly beautiful material to be particularly resistant and hygienic. After all, sanitary facilities in high-class restaurants, exclusive hotels, wellness and spa facilities and entertainment complexes are an advertisement for the providers and operators. Design, functionality and cleanliness is of particular importancein these environments.
Hard to believe, but unfortunately it still happens today: To find the way to the gentlemen’s restroom, one just needs to follows one’s nose. Unpleasant odours dominate, especially in high-use sanitary installations where there are frequently changing users. This does not have to be the case any longer. Standards of cleanness, hygiene and economical efficiency should apply for all urinal installations.
This saying, being true in the football world, has been newly interpreted in the current series of Multiple washing solutions from Franke. Two modern, freshly designed moulded shapes are the basis for the new washing system made of mineral granite, a material well suited for various architectural requirements.
This year Franke is enhancing its touch-free stainless steel washroom accessories with a total of three new products. Easy to use and at the same time hygienic product solutions are playing an increasing role in equipping public and commercial sanitary rooms. Here the elegant and resistant stainless steel material in conjunction with the fittings or equipment are a convincing combination and require no touching by the user.
The new generation of self-closing fittings, recently introduced on the market by Franke, shows at first sight two design aspects. Firstly there is a choice of models between the Classic designs with their clean flowing lines which is in contrast to the ergonomic and sloping design of the Style models. Secondly the values of this new generation of fittings features a newly developed self-closing functional cartridge.
It is always important to have the best sanitary facilities that are used by the public. Unfortunately, frequently these public toilets are usually quite unpleasant. The need for hygiene, cleanliness and comfort at these locations place great demands on sanitary facilities. By working with sanitary specialists Franke, two German cities have provided facilities in Berlin and Dortmund shows that such interiors can be quite appealing to the eye.
Square feet are often at a premium where plumbing is concerned, which creates a need for space-saving ideas. Franke Plumbing Systems has reacted to this demand by developing an extensive range of innovative, concealed plumbing products for direct wall installation. The top-of-the-range Stratos series of products also fulfils the very highest quality and design specifications, making it ideal for use in prestige hotel and catering establishments and exclusive health facilities.
The mission of Franke Plumbing Systems to provide innovative design is fully expressed in the striking looks of its newly-developed Cobra shower, which echo the sinuous forms of the king of reptiles. This elegantly curving stainless-steel shower has been developed for use either in the open air or indoors, and is also ideal for pool-side use or installation as part of a sauna suite. The particle-blasted, burnished surface of V4A stainless steel offers particularly robust protection against wear and tear. Given the highly positive feedback obtained when a design study of the product was first shown at FSB Cologne last year, the decision has been taken to bring forward full-scale series production.
Franke aquires AquaRotter GmbH, the leading company in Germany for special fittings, water management systems and fittings for sanitary rooms.
Franke Washroom Products gives the market its first-ever fingerprintfree steel surface treatment. Franke Washroom and Plumbing Systems has developed an innovative surface treatment for stainless steel that virtually eliminates fingerprint marks. InoxPlus® is the name of this sensational new surface treatment, available exclusively from Franke Hard Industrial, which takes advantage of the latest developments in the field of nanotechnology. The first customer to be supplied with these fingerprint-free stainless steel washroom fixtures is Volkswagen headquarters at Wolfsburg in Germany.
Franke has developed a surface treatment that provides considerable reduction in fingerprint stains. INOXplus ® is the name of this latest innovation from Franke, which makes full use of our knowledge of nanotechnology.
The new Sazka Arena sports and leisure centre in Prague oozes superlatives – right down to the washrooms. These facilities consist of three different ranges of designer stainless-steel fittings, all supplied by Franke.
Aarburg, Switzerland, 29 October, 2003 - The acquisition of B.L.INOX, Chaponost, F, its French distributor of Washroom and Sanitary Systems (WSS), will enable Franke to further expand in the French market for public and communal WSS products.
Ideal for the equipping of bathroom facilities that need to reflect the prestige of public, semi-public and private buildings.
XINOX – the new sanitary range in stainless steel from FRANKE – now endorsed with the "DESIGN-PLUS" award bestowed at ISH 2003 in Frankfurt, Germany. Special surface finish with Inox+ that actually repels fingerprints, making them virtually invisible.
Aarburg, Switzerland, November 4, 2002 - Franke has acquired W & G Sissons Ltd, the leading stainless steel sanitaryware manufacturer in the UK. This acquisition makes Franke the European Market leader in the stainless steel sanitary product area.
Communal washing can have a certain ritual character – or might just be a case of necessity. This conceived combination of functionality and aesthetics is fully demonstrated in the elegant stainless-steel communal washbasins offered by the Franke Company.
Who has never had that feeling? You just need to be slightly offbalance, and the first thing you do is to reach out instinctively for a means of support. A safety or grab handle, or a handrail, are a vital part of any bathroom or area with wet floors. And the most popular colour for items of this type? That’s white.
It's all go in public places, but that doesn't mean that chaos and vandalism have to be inevitable. Easy-care, robust toilet fittings made of stainless steel are simple to clean and difficult to damage - and things that are already clean usually stay that way.
Convenient and well laid-out bathrooms have long since stopped being the exclusive preserve of disabled-facility planning. Grab-handles and other practical items made of easy-to-grip stainless steel have now started to make bath time easier for everyone.
The formal language of contemporary architecture has, ever since the days of Le Corbusier, been strictly controlled by the geometrical dictates of "cubes and tubes". The washroom accessories in Franke's STRATOS designer range take up this playing with shapes and reapply it to a crisply turned-out selection of items in stainless steel.
Under Licence of NIRO-Plan AG, Switzerland