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  • Swiss textile company furnishes buildings in London and Lichtenfels

    Swiss textile company furnishes buildings in London and Lichtenfels

    Création Baumann has received two orders from England and Germany. In London, the Bern-based company, which specialises in textile interior design, is fitting out the 636 flats in the Newfoundland Tower with a version of its LORD curtain fabric that is colour-coordinated with the interior design concept, Création Baumann announced in a press release. The curtains reflect the light and achieve energy savings of up to 14 per cent. The fabric panels, totalling around 40 kilometres in length, are manufactured in Switzerland.

    In Germany, Création Baumann is fitting out the Archive of the Future in Lichtenfels near Bamberg. This is a pavilion surrounded by glass façades that can be fully opened, which houses offices and areas for exhibitions and events. Such “open architectural concepts with lots of glass rely on targeted lighting control to create optimal working conditions and protect rooms from overheating,” writes Création Baumann in a further press release. The textile manufacturer’s GUARD curtain fabric is being used in Lichtenfels. With its grid-like appearance, the aluminium-metallised fabric allows light into the interior, while its wafer-thin aluminium layer simultaneously protects against direct sunlight and glare.

  • Lindner produces more sustainably with new cellulose yarn

    Lindner produces more sustainably with new cellulose yarn

    Lindner Suisse will in future use carrier nets made of cellulose threads for the production of Howolis wood wool fleeces. According to a press release, the new carrier material will make the product portfolio of wood wool products even more sustainable. The basis for the natural erosion protection is a fine-meshed net, which is processed into protective fleeces for greening and hydraulic engineering. The product is available in various versions for a wide range of requirements. It can be reinforced for hydraulic engineering, they say.

    The manufacturer of geotextiles from the St.Gallen-Lake Constance area is now able to supply an “altogether even more sustainable, climate-friendly product” for its proven wood wool products for slope and embankment protection and, with the nets woven in-house, is also reviving the long local textile history.

    The core of the carrier nets are biodegradable threads made of beechwood cellulose from European beechwood. Lindner Suisse manufactures the threads from this. Traditional weaving techniques are used to produce the desired movable nets. Retired people from the textile industry contributed their knowledge to teach the handicraft process, the statement says.

    The thread is considered even more sustainable than the jute threads used so far. These are also biodegradable, but score lower in terms of sustainability due to long transport routes. As Managing Director Thomas Wildberger explains in the press release, the wood-wool fleeces are intended to “bring production processes to a new ecological level”. At the same time, Lindner wants to become independent of overseas markets. The jute threads will be available on request until further notice.