Interzum 2013 commences on the 13th May and TKKB team will be there to bring you daily updates from the show – and anything else that grabs our attention!! Already exhibitors to this important global trade fair have started to give us a sneak preview of what we’re likely to experience – here’s just a few:-
Fine Decor from Bielefeld, Germany, is aiming to score points with new colours for PET foils. The high-performance PVC-free plastic surfaces for 2D application in high gloss and supermatt come in earthy tones and loud colours, among others.
Impress has six new inspiring collections prepared in order to show the wide range of possible combinations of colours and textures. Bright fresh woods with authentic surfaces predominate, as well as thermally modified timber with attractive elegant textures and warm bright tones. Authenticity and material choices have become key concepts at Impress.
Media profili believes that many consumers could move to using plastic components for skirting in the kitchen and bathroom, as they have been successfully doing in southern Europe for a long time. The innovations of the Italian company include, decorative papers, Polymeric materials, side and back panels for drawers made from semi-soft plastic. These can be bent, to go around the waste trap in bathroom or kitchen furniture, for example.
Pfleiderer Holzwerkstoffe is using Interzum to promote its new range. Since the beginning of the year, the Pfleiderer range has combined the individual Duropal, Wodego and Thermopal ranges that were previously offered separately. Three megatrends can be clearly recognised here: naturalness, elegance and used look. Decors and textures incorporate these trends and reflect them through ever better printed designs and texture formats. Smart materials are equally important to Pfleiderer.
There will be plenty to discover at the Renolit SE exhibition stand. Along with the “Veralinga” embossing, the new “Magellan” split wood decor is set to cause quite a stir. So also should the attractive shades of rust and exciting fantasy decors such as “Kroko” and “Babylon”. “Thermo Oak” will be on display alongside other oaks and, not least, the “Colour Road trend colours for 2013/14” should inspire interzum visitors. Basically, Renolit is following the “natural” direction, but the German company is showing a lot of courage with regard to colour and a sense for new surfaces, such as coloured glass surfaces, rough stone textures, concrete and rust looks, and split wood and bark imitations.
Resopal has also been busy with the trends for the next few years and has created “Perspectives up to 2018”, an extensive collection of materials and surfaces. The company is also introducing a new material that combines the advantages of laminates with those of foils. Resopal is getting active in recycling matters again following “Re-Y-Stone”, and showing how scrap decorative paper can be used again literally “on the front line”.
Enjoy the reviews we post – the next 24 hours will be spent travelling to Spain before going onto Interzum – talk soon!!!
