FROM A PIONEER TO THE SYNONYM - Alucobond

Amicra apparatus housing Rail car interior cladding Change room wall cladding, Indoor Pool
Karlsruhe, Germany
team in Singen, which was still very small at the time, would turn
out for me like a ‘lottery-prize’, so to speak.
At that time I was already working independently and operated a
decoration and advertising company, which, amongst other fields,
was also engaged in exhibition stand construction. I ordered some
ALUCOBOND® panels and after my day‘s work – and sometimes
together with my wife – I set up some fabrication experiments in
the workshop of my company in Bad Wimpfen. The results convinced
me to such an extent that I decided to set up a second company
with ALUCOBOND®. I founded Aluform still in 1972.
the product's advantages. During this period the development of
various ALUCOBOND ® fixing systems, therefore, started under the
direction of Manni Wolf in Zurich. We can recall the ‘T40-system’,
for instance, and the introduction of the ‘double top-hat’ sections,
that are still standing the test today for simple cladding projects and
have been supplementing the ALUCOBOND ® delivery programme
from the extrusion production in Singen for a long time.
As a consequence, the first two technical application engineers for
the Northern and Southern regions were already employed as the
The first sales successes already began to show after a few months,
whereby at the beginning we concentrated on our activities in
exhibition stand construction, display elements, shop-fitting and
interior design, furniture and housings of apparatus. I remember
our first larger-scale project very well, i.e. the complete interior
cladding of the dressing and sanitary rooms of the indoor pool
at the University of Karlsruhe, where ALUCOBOND® was used,
one side laminated with yellow PVC foil – known at the time as
SINAPLAST finish. This was the first project for which we also did
the assembly and fixing of the panels.
Nuclear Research Centre,
Karlsruhe, Germany
Ski jump umpire tower,
Bischofshofen, Austria