German Market for Sun Protection
The German sun protection market is served by professionals;
In this case the craftsmen from the company Mar kisen Dittmar
assemble an awning. Photo: Heiler
Nowadays, there are hardly any manufacturers that do not
have qualified experts at their disposal for supporting architects
Construction keeps going on in Germany, but the balance is
shifting: not the generous property on flat land is focussed
that much as for many years by roller shutters and sun protection
accessible multi-storey dwellings, in line with current energy
standards and at the same time purposefully equipped, architects
tionalised investors. This will have an impact on automation
in factories, on the need for networks from the industrial suppliers
the range of products or the relationship of prepared / qualitatively
Changes in sales in 2016
for awnings in Germany
Rail-mounted counter awnings
14 in answering their questions.
companies, all bar renovation, but in the direction of
and contractors usually have to deal with institu -
Scheme – planners – craftsmen and possibly also on
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consultable articles to solutions marketable on a
limited scale. At the same time, the architectural demands
on industrial products are increasing.
GERMANY – A NATION OF VENETIAN BLINDS?
Currently, and certainly due to the fact that a market leader
like Warema has its headquarters here, it is striking, compared
to other markets, what a large role venetian blinds play.
Example: In France, the market share in screens is much higher.
It is possible, in this context, that earlier efforts are once
again coming back onto the agenda of using slat-directed
daylight for interior design, just as Lichtlabor Bartenbach in
Aldrans in Tyrol has gone on to perfection in renowned lighthouse
projects all around the world; it is perfectly suited to
construction today using glass and would strengthen the position
of the facilities that have been created mostly with aluminium
in competition with the rigid surface shading.
Perhaps it is during the past few years that the most has been
done, with the exception of the upswing of the Zip-Screen
product group, for internal systems; These have taken a step
forward in two ways. Several years ago, the formula was:
Glare protection with comfort from inside, energy savings and
summer warmth protection from outside. At this point you
also cannot help but find a brand in Duette for honeycomb
pleats, which has managed to do just that thanks to the efforts
of licensor Hunter Douglas; to become a true brand in
the B2B world of sun protection, right up to the brand trader,
whose consistent support and willingness to negate the aforementioned
long-accepted formula: As it is underpinned by
research carried out by Fraunhofer, the product, which had
Half-cassette
Cassette
Window awnings without zip
Window awnings with zip
– 1,9 %
+ 7,2 %
– 16,1 %
+ 8,1 %
+ 12,2 %
Chart/source: R+T markets