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October 2005, the  Maxi-Filtra was installed to solve a sewer odour problem in a new cocktail lounge situated 300 metres above the ground in Sydney Australia’sCentrepoint Tower. The novelty of this installation is that “Bar 360°” spins! The plumbing was tricky, with the waste material for the Tower stored in tanks during the day, but then drained at the end of the day. Successful filtering of the sewer tanks during the operation of the bar was essential, with the solution being the installation of the Maxi-Filtra - an active charcoal filter that filters sewer gasses while still allowing the free flow of air within the sanitary plumbing system. The solution, using the Maxi-Filtra, solved the problem because no other product on the market came close to meeting the project’s venting requirement. For a cocktail with the best view in Sydney check out “Bar 360°” at Centrepoint Tower, Sydney!
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19 September 2005, Schilde/Belgium,
Sture Ericson (founder of ) celebrates his 70th birthday today.
Friends were invited to the beautiful Belgian residence of Doris and Sture
Ericson on Sunday afternoon for a celebratory event.
This started with a golf tournament on the golf
course with cocktails presented at the end of the tournament on
the terrace. A wonderful dinner, desserts, beautiful music and, of course,
dancing rounded up the great party which ended in the early morning hours
of today, his birthday. Sture was touched by a wonderful presentation of
his wife Doris and was also very happy with the many presents he received.
Amongst them was a golf holiday with a visit the British Open 2006,
presented by Franz Arnold (CEO) on behalf of the Group.
We all wish Sture a happy birthday and many returns in good health.
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14-16 September 2005, Brussels/Belgium,
this year's CIB W062 meeting took place in Brussels.
Over 75 academics researching in the water supply and drainage
area participated and listened to most interesting presentations
during two days. Day 3 was dedicated to some technical visits
and finally ended with a nice tour through the beautiful town
of Brugge by horse tram. The symposium concluded with a dinner
hosted by at the Damme Golf & Country Club. In his dinner
speech Sture Ericson surprised everybody with
the announcement that a FOUNDATION has been set up.
Sture and Doris Ericson (founders of ) want to encourage
young talents to carry out special research projects and
to present the results later at CIB events. The details and
rules of this foundation will now be worked out and details
will be announced later.
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August 2005,
's
esteemed Japanese distributor (VENN) exhibited
at the 37th General Tradeshow for Plumbing/Fittings Equipment held at
the Tokyo International Exhibition Center in Japan from 4 to 6 August.
VENN allocated a large area of their impressive booth to showcase the
whole range of
products, generating a lot of interest. The
below photographs show: the VENN booth; the
corner; and (from left to right) Mr. Steven White (Studor
Technical Manager), Mr. Kouichi Tanaami (Director, VENN),
Mr. Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group), and one of VENN's lovely hostesses.
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August 2, 2005,
VENN (’s Japanese distributor)
and
Steven White
(’s Technical Manager)
hosted a technical presentation at
the Prince Hotel Conference Center in Sapporo, Japan.
The event was attended by 75 local engineers, contractors
and wholesalers. The presentation introduced the delegates
to the advantages of using
AAVs, together with a
first-time introduction to positive transients and STUDOR’s
solution to this problem that exists in every drainage system
– the STUDOR P.A.P.A. After the presentation VENN invited
everyone to a wonderful lunch, which gave the opportunity
for everyone to ask questions on the presentation.
would like to thank VENN for organising this very successful event.
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August 2005,
talented Store Manager Grant Hibburd and his staff at
Tradelink’s Brookvale branch in Sydney, Australia built a car made
entirely from plumbing materials.
donated one of their newly
launched Maxi-Filtras to the project – in a plumbing installation,
this active carbon filter is designed to eliminate bad odours produced
by the drainage system. We certainly wouldn’t recommend a road test in
the car, but we would recommend you visit
our product page for more
information on the Maxi-Filtra!
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July 2005,
House was honoured by a visit from representatives from
Korea - Studor's independent Korean distributor. Messrs KS Lew and
JS Lew met the whole team, were given a tour of the facility opened earlier
this year, and received a demonstration of
's in-house testing in the
on-site test laboratory.
Korea is working hard to develop the Korean
market with the support of the Studor Team and has been realising an
increasing number of reference projects.
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May 2005, Lisbon, Portugal, 's
distributor for Portugal – Pinto & Cruz - exhibited at
Tektónica International Building and Construction Fair in Lisbon and presented the
products for the
first time, creating a lot of interest.
also used the opportunity to hold various seminars in Lisbon during the exhibition - presented by
Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group) and Steve White (Technical Manager) - both for staff and reps of the
distributor, as well as for engineers, delegates of universities,
contractors, etc.
Pinto & Cruz has already realized a number of projects, most
prominently the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra (Coimbra Stadium).
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March, 2005,
Chinese visitors Mrs Liu Wen Bing (Design Consultant for
the Beijing International Opera House) and Mr Yu Fei (Beijing Goldtide
Building Materials Co. Ltd. - Studor's distributor for Beijing &
Nanjin Area) visited Belgium en-route to ISH Frankfurt. Accompanied by
Michael Chang (Technical Coordinator, Studor Limited) and Kristof
Michielsen (factory representative), Mrs Liu received a demonstration
of the production of the Studor products. A visit to the testing
institute BBRI and a short presentation by Karel de Cuyper (see
photograph) rounded off the day.
From left to right: Kristof
Michielsen, Michael Chang, Mrs Liu
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March 16, 2005,
hosted a spectacular evening dinner event at Schlosshotel Kronberg (Germany) for their international distributors,
representatives their factories and other key partners of the business. Starting first with a cocktail
reception at the booth
at the ISH exhibition, the guests were then transported to the spectacular castle Schlosshotel Kronberg
for a champagne reception followed by a 4-course dinner. The drainage research celebrity
Professor John Swaffield (Heriot Watt university Edinburgh, Scotland) – inventor of the
P.A.P.A. –
gave a much applauded dinner speech. Franz Arnold (CEO Studor Group) surprised Sture and Doris
Ericson (founders of ) with a
special present in recognition of 30 years of their successful partnership. The evening was a great success
with guests from over 20 countries attending.
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March 15, 2005, Frankfurt,
did it again! Not only surprising the plumbing industry with a state-of-the
art new exhibition booth (see picture), but also with a couple of great new
products (for details see page
http://www.studor.net/news/main.asp).
The other picture shows the founders of
-
Sture Ericson
testing the tightness of the new Trap-Vent, assisted by his wife Doris
Ericson.
The
booth C69 in hall 4.0 is the meeting point of people
interested in smart drainage venting solutions
The exhibition is ongoing until March 19. More news to follow.
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8 February 2005,
House, in Hove, situated on the South Coast in England, was officially opened by Sture and Doris Ericson (founders of
)
following extensive renovation carried out over a very short period
of 6 weeks. Dozens of people and many companies worked around the clock
to convert a disused industrial building into a combined state-of-the-art
office, warehouse and test laboratory – all with plenty of space
for expansion!
The inauguration celebration was attended by many key people who have
contributed over past years and more recently to ’s
progressive development and facilitating the refurbishment work. In
his formal speech, Franz Arnold (CEO
Group) honoured the legacy of Sture and Doris’ work in laying
the foundation of an international business which started 30 years ago.
It was a very proud day for them to see their continued commitment to
the development and education of the industry reaching another important
milestone with this impressive own building.
House accommodates the European Sales Office and ’s
World-wide Technical Department – please download further information,
including the address, here.
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