LAUFEN – THE COMPANY
LAUFEN stands
for swissness,
quality and design,
offering complete
bathroom
solutions around
the world.
Making the bathroom
a living environment
The personality of this highly tradition-
al Swiss brand reflects a symbiosis of
design, quality and functionality.
LAUFEN is one of the world’s leading
manufacturers with a global distribu-
tion network. The company’s core com-
petence is its knowledge in the area of
sanitary ware manufacturing.
For over 125 years, the LAUFEN brand
has been using the oldest malleable ma-
terial known to man to make innovative
sanitary products in state-of-the-art
plants with legendary Swiss precision.
Knowledge of the bathroom as a whole
is developed from the competence of
LAUFEN in ceramics manufacturing,
and sophisticated design.
BATHROOM CULTURE FOR 125 YEARS
What makes LAUFEN products unique
at first glance is that their Swiss design
unites two major design trends: emotional
Italian design from the south and the
northern tradition of design precision
and clarity. For LAUFEN, quality has two
aspects: manufacturing knowledge and
high degree of practical benefit that the
finished bathroom affords the customer
– which is often not immediately apparent.
LAUFEN, a Swiss company manufacturing
products that allow water, a precious re-
source, to be used sparingly, demon-
strates in this manner a commitment to
preserving natural resources and environ-
mentally-friendly production.
THE CANTON OF BASELLAND
BETWEEN THE RIVERS DOUBS AND RHINE
From humble
beginnings to
today’s global player
When LAUFEN was founded in Switzer-
land in 1892, sanitation was still a far cry
from the standards and comforts offered
today; standards, which were particularly
influenced by LAUFEN, the only sanitary
ceramics producer that manufactures
exclusively in Europe.
FIRST MECHANICAL FACTORY FOR SANITARY
WARE ON THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT,
ZNOJMO
Some of the production facilities that be-
long to the company today can betraced
back even further into history.
In 1878 for example, the pioneer in
the mechanical manufacture of san-
itary ceramics was a production site
belonging to the Austrian monarchy.
It is not just tradition, but also the
strong anchor which various European
manufacturing sites maintain intheir
domestic markets, Switzerland, Aus-
tria and Czech Republic, that underpin
the quality of LAUFEN as a company.
LAUFEN’s goal then was the same as
today’s: to lead on technology, service
and design.
Back in the 1980s, LAUFEN engineers
invented the most efficient high-
pressure casting technology for ceramic
production and therefore ensured a
sustainable breakthrough in industrial
production.
DVELOPMENT OF THE WALL HUNG TOILET
BY LAUFEN ENGINEER XAVER JERMANN, 1964
Just as important at LAUFEN are the
constant developments in design:
wall-mounted WCs and floor-standing
washbasins have enabled a new sense
of aesthetics. In 2013 LAUFEN’s world-
wide material innovation SaphirKeramik
succeeded in revolutionising the design
language of ceramic.
The innovative and valuable patented
SaphirKeramik formulation gives the
starting material unprecedented pos-
sibilities and scopes. SaphirKeramik is
used when a design includes thin walled
shapes and tight radii.
THE NEW CLASSIC
DESIGNED BY MARCEL WANDERS
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