IN LINE with its ongoing commitment to innovation, manufacturer and distributor Häfele has announced the launch of a wealth of new products and services designed to make life easier for its customers in the year it celebrates its 100th birthday.
Flex Lighting System
The Flex Lighting System from Häfele promises to put an end to the complex and time consuming process that can come with installing kitchen and furniture lighting designs.
Flex Light is a silicon-based ribbon which can be bent to almost any angle and radius. The innovative system, believed to be unique to Häfele, is designed as a single light solution that’s suitable for multiple applications.
It pairs up with a brand new selection of profiles for plinths, handleless cabinets, worktops, and splashbacks. Users simply need to select the Flex Light profile required for the application, and push-fit the Flex Light ribbon to achieve the desired effect. The profiles have been designed in a variety of lengths to suit applications of different sizes, with two lighting colours — cool white and warm white — available to choose from.
The Flex Lighting System can be controlled in many ways, including remotely by an app on the user’s phone via Häfele’s Loox Lighting drivers. Offering additional simplicity and versatility, the Flex Lighting System has multiple uses around the home and can be combined with another new Häfele innovation, Modu3.
Modu3
Modu3 is an entirely customisable and modular shelving system that can be both standalone and complementary to Flex Lighting.
Combining chipboard or MDF panels — available in five different finishes — with aluminium profiles, various shelving designs can be created using any of the three standard sizes available — 600 mm, 900 mm and 1,200 mm.
Committed to making life as simple as possible for the industry, Häfele has created a range of different assembly packages to choose from. There is a ‘ready to be assembled’ pack which includes a finishing trim to cover rebate, and a second ‘ready to be assembled’ pack which also includes a complementary shelf. A ‘part assembled pack’ is crafted to a bespoke design submitted by the customer, before being flatpacked via Häfele to Order — Häfele’s free cutting and packing service designed to improve efficiency and cut down on waste. The fourth option sees Modu3 delivered built and ready to fit, while any of the above can also be combined with an integrated Flex Lighting System to offer customers a lit-up, customised shelving solution.
Bespoke worktops
Alongside product-led developments, Häfele is launching its new Bespoke Worktop Service to help customers achieve precise, entirely customisable designs while also saving time during the installation process.
Users simply select their choice of worktop from Häfele’s Maia, Minerva and or Carysil ranges, and the products will be manufactured to specification by highly experienced professionals, using advanced cutting tools and technologies to ensure precision and accuracy, eliminating gaps or unevenness when fitted. The Bespoke Worktop Service offers complete customisation including different shapes, sizes and finishes, to create pieces that blend perfectly with the desired design. Once cut and packaged, the bespoke worktops are delivered direct to site within 14 days.
The service has been developed to save customers valuable time in the installation process, meaning they can complete projects more efficiently. And because of the high quality materials and tools used, customers can be sure of a perfect and durable finish.
Tom Fletcher, Product, Innovation & Development Manager at Häfele UK, said: “Innovation has been at the heart of our business for 100 years, and we’re still thinking of new and inventive ideas to help transform outdated ways of working. We’ve always worked closely with our customers to understand their pain points, and we use those insights to harness the expertise and experience of our team to come up with a new way of doing things.
“These latest product and service launches reflect that. Each has been created because we’ve been told by customers that what’s already available in the market doesn’t make their life any easier. Designs for the home don’t always need to be complex, and we know this latest collection of innovations will see our customers finding greater joy in their jobs as we’ve enabled them to work differently — more efficiently, with more ease, and with more accuracy and quality.”
See page 28 of our August/September 2023 issue on our Back Issues page.
