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I'm buying a quality fitting?

The KLUDI motto One thousand employees at six production sites around the world turn out thousands of quality fittings for KLUDI every day, while at the same time ensuring our consistently high, self-imposed standards of material, environmental, processing and assembly quality. Modern production units and processes play an equally important role in this as technical expertise and our vision of sustainability. Taken together, they all result in economically viable, technically excellent and resourceconserving manufacturing processes. This is how we produce first-rate fittings for our...

CONTENTS How and where is a KLUDI brand fitting actually produced? How do I recognize the quality of brand fittings? What’s special about KLUDI fittings? What kind of after-sales service does KLUDI provide? KLUDI and the Drinking Water Ordinance How does KLUDI comply with certification requirements and standards?

How and where is a KLUDI brand fitting actually produced? By having our headquarters in Germany, we express our commitment to the production of German quality and also to our production sites in the heart of Europe, such as the Hornstein factory in Austria and the one at Diósd in Hungary, where we turn out products of premium and enduring quality.

KLUDI quality policy As a brand-name manufacturer, KLUDI offers its customers high-quality products and services – always and without fail. However, we regard “quality” as a single entity: in other words, product quality ultimately means company quality. Only if we ensure both can we secure jobs and assure the future. The quality of a KLUDI product is the result of a chain reaction: a KLUDI product passes through many employees’ hands. Each individual employee receives his product in this chain from the hands of a “supplier” and checks it in the role of a customer before passing it on in...

Our quality policy KLUDI quality is produced by each and every employee right from the start – and not just checked by individual employees at the end of the production process. Ambitious quality targets The KLUDI quality targets are revised and ambitiously redefined every year. The extent to which we meet them is constantly monitored, documented and published. Such quality targets are not merely the concern of our production departments: we are well aware that our quality targets must be applied at every level of the company – equally by the employee at the workbench and the manager at his...

KLUDI environmental policy and safety management The focus of our work is the manufacture of long-lasting quality fittings. The sustained use of our products over a long period is a prerequisite for the designation “environmentally compatible”. The KLUDI Group is committed to the basic ecological principle of: avoid – reduce – recycle. What this means, in particular, is that burdens on the environment should be avoided wherever possible. If, after weighing up the necessities and applying the latest technology, they cannot be avoided, we do our utmost to minimise their impact. We know from...

Our environmental policy We expect every one of the 1,000 KLUDI employees to take a critical look at the environmental impact of each process within the KLUDI Group and to cooperate on its optimisation. Realistic environmental targets KLUDI undertakes to adhere strictly to or outperform all legal regulations governing environmental protection. This applies equally to the production process and to the products themselves. Our products should enable our customers to use water, our most important foodstuff, sparingly. The KLUDI environmental management system The KLUDI environmental management...

Our standards Recycling system High-quality raw for the materials materials and partners we use KLUDI fittings stand for top quality in the private spheres of life, where everything revolves around enjoyment and pleasure, well-being and cleanliness. As manufacturers, we cannot be too particular – especially when it comes to the raw materials we source for our quality fittings. That we set ourselves high standards is clearly demonstrated by the basic materials we source. Careful selection and long-standing business associations with our suppliers justify our customers’ confidence in KLUDI...

KLUDI safety management The KLUDI Group is committed to meeting its responsibilities and demonstrably complying with all relevant laws and regulations at all of its production sites. Especially as regards the safety standards applicable at the production plants, the main focus is on environmentally relevant and sensitive areas, such as our electroplating processes. Inspections are carried out at regular intervals in the production areas by internal and external skilled workers and technical experts. Our high standard of technical safety, supported by the clearly environmental focus of our...

How do I recognize the quality of brand fittings? Simple. Everything is just right! Fittings are all part of the basic equipment of every household. Without them, it would be impossible to regulate the temperature of running water. Accordingly, there are very many com­ panies selling fittings at very different prices. There’s much more to brand fittings than what you see at first glance: quality materials, thorough workmanship and long-lasting quality.

Convenience A key feature of brand fittings is that they are so easy to use. The larger the mixing chamber of a mono mixer and the more precisely the flow rate can be set, the more convenient the fitting is. The mixing chamber of between 34 °C and 42 °C flow temperature should be positioned at an angle of at least 15° in a quality fitting. It should be possible to adjust the flow rate at an angle of 25° The mono mixers and thermostat mono mixers of brand fittings generally have a built-in, adjustable anti-scald limiter. Bath and shower mixers are fitted with an automatic adjuster, so that...