With more than 1,300 metres of exhibition space, Blum made the most of this year’s Interzum in Cologne to present its new brand promise of ‘moving ideas’, along with its innovative products and solutions for greater quality of living.
Blum’s new brand promise of ‘moving ideas’ puts customers’ needs at the centre of its thinking. How are needs incorporated in product development? How can the Austrian manufacturer of fittings deliver solutions that move the market? And how will the company enable customers’ ideas? These questions, new ideas and inspirations where presented at this year’s Interzum.
Presented for the first time at Interzum, the MERIVOBOX is the newest concept to the Blum box system range. Unmistakable thanks to its distinctive design and broad range of options, MERIVOBOX gives manufacturers the possibility to offer their customers a diverse pull-out range based on one box system. Closed drawer sides, continuous metal sides or design elements; with just one cabinet profile, assembly is always simple, and adjustment is always the same.
The concept has the same fixing position for all applications, with just one front and the same drilling pattern for all applications. This highly anticipated product solution will be available in 2022. Blum is currently building special production facilities for the new box system.
With people merging their kitchen, dining and living areas, the open-plan trend calls for a smart solution to conceal spaces that are not in use. Blum’s pocket systems concept offers seamless smooth surfaces and clean lines, doors of up to 2500 mm in height which disappear into pockets when the space is in use. No special construction or modifications needed. Blum presented three different applications – with and without handles, with different motion technologies and with single and double doors.
Interzum presented the next product installment for AVENTOS HK top, with SERVO-DRIVE which will be released in Australia the first quarter 2020. The SERVO-DRIVE unit will be able to be clipped into the mechanism without tools, delivering electrical opening and soft close.
The SERVO-DRIVE concept was presented to demonstrate how wall cabinets and pull-outs, dishwashers and refrigerators can be opened and closed with simple, spoken commands. Intelligent devices have become indispensable to everyday life, and more and more homes are becoming “smart”. Everything revolves around connecting people and the objects around them.
Blum also showed how the SERVO-DRIVE smart concept study can be integrated into new products. “Alexa, make me taller”, for example, prompts Blum’s SPACE STEP plinth solution to move out of the cabinet. The step is safe and secure to stand on and gives users easy access to higher storage levels.
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