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18. July 2019 ▶ Industrial mesh

Quality Control: new vision control system

To ensure seamless quality control for filtration meshes, GKD’s automated production facility has been upgraded with a high-performance autonomous camera system. Possible weaving errors and foreign particles in filter elements are eliminated thanks to the … ▶

18. July 2019 ▶ Transparent media façades

MEDIAMESH®: Eloquent ambassador for art school

The internationally renowned Cleveland Institute of Art (CIA) in Ohio received a new face in an elaborate two-phase renovation and construction project. The highlight of the new building is a 150 square meter transparent MEDIAMESH® screen from GKD – GEBR … ▶

16. July 2019 ▶ Metalfabrics

Solar protection façade: Unique lighthouse architecture

The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is widely acknowledged as one of the finest universities founded anywhere in the world over the last 50 years. In international competition with other elite universities, it has opted for … ▶

11. July 2019 ▶ Process belts

Glass hybrid belt: Anti-stick coating minimizes soiling

As a special solution for processing highly adhesive products, glass hybrid belts with anti-stick coating from GKD – GEBR. KUFFERATH AG address an urgent problem with nonwoven thermal bonding in single- and double-belt dryers. Their design, … ▶

26. June 2019 ▶ Industrial mesh

3D high-performance filtration mesh

With Porometric, GKD has developed a completely new range of high-tech filtration meshes with three-dimensional fabric structure. The flow rate is up to three times higher than with conventional fabrics. It also boasts significantly better dirt holding capacity, … ▶

06. June 2019 ▶ Metalfabrics

Metal fabric: Golden façade for art school in Calais

Within the scope of a 100-million-Euro infrastructure project, the Ecole d’Art de Calais art school moved into a new building set to mark the beginning of a new era for the French harbor city. As an eye-catcher and contribution to the building's … ▶

29. May 2019 ▶ Metalfabrics

Silentmesh: CMP fabric creates pleasant room acoustics

In the heart of the La Défense office district in Paris, the 135-meter Tour Europlaza office tower sets standards for sustainable construction. It has received the HQE exploitation & BREEAM in-use certification "Very Good" not once but twice. … ▶

10. May 2019 ▶ Industrial mesh

GKD: Smart products made of metal and hybrid meshes

The Techtextil trade fair will be held in Frankfurt from May 14 to 17, 2019. GKD – GEBR. KUFFERATH AG will be present in Hall 3.1, Stand D79 to showcase the potential and vast range of possibilities offered by the smart products the company has … ▶

30. April 2019 ▶ Metalfabrics

Illumesh: Metal mesh Indemann has been glowing for 10 years

This year marks one decade since the Indemann, designed by the Maastricht-based architectural firm Maurer United Architects, first took up its post surveying the surrounding landscape. As an emblem for the transformation in the structural policy … ▶

26. April 2019 ▶ Industrial mesh

Optimized dutch weaves: Key role in backwashing

Patrick Morsch, postgraduate student at the Institute for Mechanical Process Engineering and Mechanics from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), is investigating process parameters for perfect cake discharge with use of as little filtrate as possible … ▶