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Kaldewei refreshes Superplan floor-level shower

June 20, 2023

For 2023 Kaldewei has given the classic Superplan a makeover; it now has a refreshed design that provides floor-level access from two sides. The Kaldewei Superplan also has an up-to-the-minute look with sharper edges, tight angles, and clean lines.

The installation depth has been optimised to max. 25 millimetres – which is almost half that of its predecessor. Narrow margins create an elegant look and guarantee a lavish standing area for a unique showering experience.

The angles of the outer corners and edges have been reduced so that the Superplan can be easily integrated into an existing tile grid, and tiling up to the edge of the shower surface is much simpler.

Kaldewei’s Superplan is a classic among floor-level showers and has sold over a million in the last 30 years. Trusted by technicians and users alike, whether it’s an exclusive private bathroom in a hotel or a barrier-free bathroom, this seamless shower made of recyclable steel enamel integrates perfectly, guaranteeing a
comfortable, safe floor space.

Sustainable, modern, and flexible

The Kaldewei Superplan is manufactured from recyclable steel enamel, and its non-porous glass surface makes it easy to clean. Combining long-lasting design with natural materials, it adds another excellent product to the world of Kaldewei’s Luxstainability® portfolio.

The shower is available in standard bathroom colours and the exclusive shades of the Coordinated Colours Collection, creating a huge design scope. The new Superplan is 100 per cent compatible with all the smart Kaldewei accessories – from assembly and waste systems to the familiar easy-care and anti-slip finishes.

This new Superplan shower tray will be available in all 41 sizes by autumn 2023.

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The Sanibest Pro transforms Art Deco building

June 20, 2023

The Sanibest Pro from Saniflo UK is helping the Eastbourne residents provide services from a four-storey Art Deco building in the centre of the town.

The Sanibest Pro is a heavy-duty macerator for public or commercial environments. As temporary custodians of the building, the Living Life Eastbourne charity provides a community hub, including an affordable café, which required a new, accessible WC, basin and baby-changing unit. Access to mains drainage would have meant digging up a solid concrete floor, creating an expensive, time-consuming inconvenience.

The solution was a powerful Sanibest Pro; the robust unit caters to public space demands. Installed behind the WC, the pipework runs behind a false wall and travels up and across the corridor’s ceiling behind the newly created bathroom, dropping into a gravity-fed drainage pipe and drain connecting to a street-level sewer.

Living Life Eastbourne was designated as a warm space during the winter, which helped residents who couldn’t afford to heat their homes, and it’s also recently been designated as a safe space for the Eastbourne Carnival. It’s a meeting space for community groups and offers a friendly, welcoming space for the homeless and those who live alone.

The Sanibest Pro from Saniflo can pump up to 7m vertically or 110m horizontally. In the Living Life café in Eastbourne, it combines both; lifting the waste 3m and pumping it across approximately 10m, where the waste falls into a soil stack.

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GROHE: Sustainable solutions at Greentech

June 19, 2023

GROHE partnered with Berlin’s 5th annual Greentech Festival to accelerate efforts towards a resource-saving future.

GROHE presented technologies designed to enable a more sustainable everyday life by saving water and energy without compromising comfort.

The GROHE Blue Home water system was showcased to demonstrate how it delivers chilled, filtered, still, medium or sparkling water straight from the kitchen tap, avoiding 3,000 single-use plastic bottles (1l) and approximately 325 kg of CO₂ on the festival’s opening day.

The full scope of the brand’s holistic plastic-reduction strategy was the focus of a panel talk at the event, where GROHE and its partners declared the importance of collaborations for a more sustainable future.

“As a manufacturer, we have an obligation to develop products that enable consumers to live in a more environmentally friendly way – without having to sacrifice comfort or water enjoyment. GROHE Blue meets this ambition to the highest extent. The water system allows people to live without single-use plastic bottles and thus has a positive impact on the global plastic waste problem. We are very proud to be able to contribute to making the Greentech Festival even more sustainable with our product solutions,” said Katharina Lattmann, leader of brand & activation, Business Unit Watersystems, LIXIL EMENA.

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Utopia launches all-new QUBE

June 19, 2023

Utopia has refreshed and extended Qube, its popular wall-mounted and freestanding bathroom furniture, introducing a second design style across the range.

Four new doors colours, complementary accent handles and trims, supporting ancillary items, and a new fast delivery option to the retailer are offered.

Qube is now available in a choice of Qube Glide, the original handleless door style, and the new Qube Edge, a stunning alternative style with the option for a top-mounted handle.

The four brand-new door colours include deep Indigo Blue and verdant Wild Green, reflecting current trends for bold colours. The line-up also sees two new sophisticated matt finishes – Matt White and Matt Grey. The four new colours join White Gloss and two existing textured finishes, Anthracite Strata and Sorrento Walnut. As usual with Utopia, samples of all finishes are available free of charge.

Qube now includes a new ceramic cloakroom basin option and a new tall toilet unit, new mirror options, plus a host of new push button and flush plate options available in Chrome, Matt Black and Brushed Brass with new coordinating basin overflow rings.

Also extended is the choice of worktops to complement Qube furniture. The existing 22mm laminate range has been extended further with three new options, Matt Grey, Cararra Marble and Marquina, and a brand new 12mm compact laminate range of exceptionally realistic natural stone effects have been added. The 12mm compact laminate has a solid colour core with an embossed surface to replicate stone and is offered in White Slate, Grey Concrete and Graphite Slate.

Helen Clark, head of marketing at Utopia Bathrooms, comments, “Our new Qube Collection is all about choice, giving customers the opportunity to build a completely unique combination from the multitude of beautiful co-ordinating elements now available with on-trend finishes and, most importantly, on a quick delivery turnaround, something the market is asking for. Qube has always been extremely successful and we are confident our retail partners will love this extended and enhanced offering.”

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HiB: Popular Bellus mirror range expanded

June 19, 2023

Following the success of the popular Bellus mirror range, HiB has expanded size options to include a new 100cm choice. The new size means that Bellus’ elaborately patterned illumination and striking design are enhanced further.

The integrated colour temperature-changing technology allows the user to switch from cool white to warm white to deliver either a relaxing atmosphere or a practical cool light option. Hidden beneath the mirror’s surface is a heated pad, which reduces condensation on the mirror’s surface. The chamfered diffuser on the back of the mirror creates a delicate, ambient glow across the wall, offering a sophisticated finishing touch.

Now available in three sizes, 60cm, 80cm, and 100cm, the Bellus mirror can be used as a beautiful feature across the home, and the touch-free operation ensures it remains smudge and fingerprint free.

Ash Chilver, HiB sales director, said: “Our customers have loved Bellus because it offers a unique style unlike anything else on the market. It is a real showstopper and the larger 100cm size makes even more of an impact in the space.

“Bellus has been developed with impactful style in mind, taking that timeless, ornate look and giving it a contemporary edge.”

For more information about the Bellus mirror, click here.

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PJH: Heating up on brushed brass style

June 19, 2023

PJH has added to its Bathrooms to Love brand with a new family of ‘GRADA’ heated towel rails finished in Brushed Brass.

A straight ladder radiator, the new Grada Brushed Brass range comes in three sizes measuring 500mm in width and heights of 800mm, 1200mm and 1600mm to suit different-sized rooms. Joining the growing choice of brushed brass products in the Bathrooms to Love Collection – from brassware and showers to enclosures and accessories – this new brushed brass heating option satisfies the increasing demand for the luxurious golden tones of this popular finish.

The Grada Brushed Brass ladder rails boast substantial heat outputs, offering BTU levels of 1062, 1765 and 2153, depending on the size. Colour-matching radiator valves complete the range with three pairs; angled, straight or corner.

The Grada heated towel rail is suitable for three heating systems – central gas heating and electric or dual fuel, using the element kit also available from Bathrooms to Love.

The perfect finishing touch to any bathroom, ensuite or cloakroom, the Grada ladder radiator is also currently available in chrome, anthracite and matt black finishes and has a five-year quality guarantee.

Available from stock and supported with PJH’s Next Day Delivery service to 91% of UK postcodes, this new Grada Brushed Brass radiator is now available to order via PJH’s Partners Portal™ e-commerce website. For further information, contact PJH on T: 0800 8 77 88 99 / www.partners.pjh.uk / www.bathroomstolove.uk

Cosentino: New edition sustainability report

June 14, 2023

Cosentino, a global manufacturer and distributor of surfaces for architecture, has released a new edition of its Sustainability Report.

Sustainability based on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) criteria, includes the company’s performance, milestones and achievements in the social, environmental and good governance fields.

Areas include aspects such as Sustainability and environmental management (Environmental). This area encompasses some of the company’s current major projects; for example, in 2022 alone, Cosentino invested more than €37 million in environmental assets.

Cosentino solid milestones include 99% reused water, Zero Water Discharge (daily recirculation of 80,000 m³ of water), and 100% renewable electric energy.

In 2022, Cosentino reduced its carbon footprint by 6% compared to 2021 and 12.81% compared to the 2018 base year.

The company continued making progress in the recovery and reuse of its waste. In 2022, Cosentino recovered almost 16% of all the solid waste generated at its Industrial Park in Cantoria (Almería).

Finally, last year Cosentino implemented a new industrial energy model, which also covers the management of water resources and activated the largest ground-mounted self-consumption photovoltaic plant in Spain.

In job creation and contribution to society (Social), Cosentino created 426 new jobs globally last year, ending 2022 with a workforce of 5,851. The company’s workforce comprises people from 76 different nationalities and the percentage of permanent contracts increased to 98%.

Download Cosentino Group’s 2022 Sustainability Dossier

About Cosentino Group

Cosentino Group is a global family-owned company that produces and distributes high-value innovative and sustainable surfaces for architecture and design. As a leading company, Cosentino imagines and anticipates together with its customers and partners design solutions that offer value and inspiration to people’s lives. This goal is made possible by pioneering brands that are leaders in their respective segments such as Silestone®, Dekton® and Sensa by Cosentino®.

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VitrA at the Installer Show 2023

June 13, 2023

VitrA Bathrooms has announced plans to debut at this year’s Installer Show with a striking and entertaining stand and supporting the Bathroom Manufacturers Association (BMA) theatre. The show takes place at the NEC Birmingham at the end of the month.

Plumbing influencer James Lawrence, the lead reviewer and advice guru from Plumberparts, is on the stand on Tuesday and Wednesday. At the show, he will participate in VitrA’s industry survey, where every participant will receive an extra mini gift.

Senior channel marketing executive Lucy Holland Explains, “We are excited to be exhibiting at the UK’s largest event for professionals in heat, water, air, and energy technology. We have created an exhibition area that showcases our comprehensive range of feature-rich and cost-efficient behind-the-wall solutions, including our new frames and concealed cisterns – all in an informative and engaging way.”

Bathroom installers visiting the stand will not only get hands-on with the new VitrA frames and concealed cisterns, which VitrA say are one of the easiest to install on the market but can also learn more about VitrA’s award-winning V-Care Smart shower toilets as well as VitrA Aquacare WCs.

Additional product highlights include the Vitrus frame, which provides the perfect retrofit solution for wall-hanging WCs, and the striking Origin brassware collection.

Complementing the product launches, VitrA has included a basketball court on the stand, with a toilet seat basketball hoop! Anyone shooting three hoops can try and crack a safe containing a pizza oven from Ooni – the Fyra 12, with basketballs on offer whether the safe is cracked or not!

Lucy concludes, “No matter the market our visitors operate in, we have a solution for all things bathroom, designed beautifully, tested thoroughly, and certified appropriately. We look forward to a busy fun-packed few days.”

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UWLA: Water efficiency can no longer be ignored

June 13, 2023

Droughts across Europe and the UK are leading to fears that 2023 could create a repeat of last year’s severe water shortage across Europe. Some regions in southern Spain are already suffering water shortages, and farmers expect their worst yields in decades. Climate change has created successive droughts, which have depleted groundwater reserves. Low river and reservoir levels are also threatening this summer’s hydropower production.

Yvonne Orgill, MD at UWLA, says, “Our water efficiency message is now absolutely critical as Europe is on track for another brutal summer, after suffering its hottest on record last year, which fuelled a drought considered to be the worst in at least 500 years.”

“People have to start taking on board our message to use water wisely, if we are to have any impact and reduce the hardship that will result from severe water shortages. We hope that people can now see that the dangers of warming our planet are no longer something distant, it’s here and now and affecting every region in the world.

“The bathroom industry is taking action by supporting the Unified Water Label, a smart tool which can help us make the necessary changes. Innovative products developed to use less water and energy, without any loss of performance, are displaying the Unified Water Label, and making it easier for consumers to make environmentally friendly choices.

“The Unified Water Label Association is committed to driving home the water efficiency message, encouraging everyone in the supply chain to support us by highlighting the label and the products that carry it, to ensure more of these products are used in the home. We are also working to help consumers understand that they can choose products that fit with their lifestyles, and that they can change behaviours to use products with more awareness.

“Those interested in supporting the UWLA or joining us to embrace a cleaner, greener bathroom revolution can find out more by visiting the website www.uwla.eu.”

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Duravit: New Vitrium by Christian Werner

June 13, 2023

Duravit has launched a timeless bathroom furniture range – Vitrium, by Christian Werner. The space-saving range includes washbasins and furniture, manufactured with the newly developed DuroCast UltraResist material.

Vitrium was presented at ISH 2023 as a series from the Duravit Artisan Lines and represents the first washbasin project for designer Christian Werner. To date, the designer has worked with Duravit on bathroom solutions for many years and has completed six furniture projects.

Two different, delicate washbasins are available: a round above-counter basin and a rectangular, seamlessly integrated c-bonded version with a refined outer edge.

The console vanity unit has a fine metal frame and a choice of fronts made from backlit glass, wood, or various décor finishes. The metal frame is available in White or Anthracite.

Bathroom Review Vitrium by Christian Werner

“The starting point for this design concept was a rigorous interrogation of the habits we take for granted. With Vitrium I sought to redefine the design of the bathroom and the associated routines. As well as the kitchen and living room, for me the bathroom, too, is a place of comfort and refuge,” said Christian Werner.

Space-saving design

The reduced furniture depth with the projecting above-counter basin makes the design ideal for compact
bathrooms.

“The basic design idea for the framed fronts and transparency of the furniture has been realised exactly as I imagined. Timelessly modern and unadorned – that’s the look I wanted for my Vitrium concept,” said Christian Werner.

PEFC*-certified wood

The bathroom furniture made from PEFC*-certified wood is enhanced by rectangular and round mirrors and comes with a mirrored cabinet for built-in versions. All feature integrated LED illumination.

“Vitrium epitomizes the rituals that take place in the bathroom and sets the ambitious framework for sophisticated and contemporary bathroom cultures,” said the designer, describing his idea.

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