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De Faveri ist stets auf der Suche nach Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten. • De Faveri is always looking for improvements. Alle Schiebetür-Kästen gibt es für Trocken- und Massivbauweise. • Sliding doors are for dry and solid construction.

F or company founder Luigi De Faveri, everything began with his early love of metal- range of manufacture so that we can deliver our premium products with a consistently
working. At the age of 13, the son of a farmer from the Italian province of Treviso left
high quality in the long term. In concrete terms, this means that we produce the majority
school in 1953 to apprentice to a blacksmith. A good seven years later, he gained experi- of our goods, about 86 percent, in our own company." A 12-year warranty period under-
ence abroad and manufactured construction site tools in France. "In order to earn more lines this high quality standard. To this day, De Faveri has been working tirelessly for his
money, I also processed metal gratings that could be used as concrete reinforcement," company, greeting each of his employees in the morning by name and with a handshake,
reports De Faveri. Back in Italy, the young blacksmith together with his slightly older and he is still significantly involved in product development: "I still take a close look at
brother Antonio founded the "De Faveri" metal construction company in 1963. Luigi De every detail and have spent several hours perfecting even the smallest details. In the
Faveri remembers: "This was the time when I developed my first patents." After the broth- meantime, this development work has resulted in more than 40 registered patents. I'm
ers had separated their business activities, De Faveri expanded the company on his own. proud of that!" When asking the company founder about his recipe for success, his
answer is: "From day one, we pursued just one goal: to always be ahead of our time in
A door that disappears into the wall product development and design. This is still true today – our team is already highly moti-
vated to work on the technical solutions of tomorrow. We're all pulling together. For us,
In 1989, he came up with the idea of a sliding door that could be pushed completely into the rule is: Progress through Foresight."
the wall. "I was completely fascinated by the idea," confirms De Faveri. In the same year
he was developing the product, the entrepreneur already founded his second company, Quality and service guaranteed worldwide
Eclisse – which translates as "eclipse" or "shift". The inventor installed first prototypes for
interiors with a system box firmly built into the wall in houses in his immediate neigh- Currently, Eclisse delivers to more than 50 countries and has more than 30 agencies, ten
bourhood. These doors are still in use today. The foundations for success were laid, and subsidiaries, and six showrooms in cities such as Milan, London, and Munich. Eclisse
De Faveri started the production of Eclisse sliding door systems with a three-man produc- Deutschland, based in Darmstadt, was founded in 2008 for the German market, ensur-
tion team, using old machines from the iron industry that it had rebuilt himself. "We had ing, among other things, that any desired product can be delivered to the construction
many ideas and were full of confidence," De Faveri remembers the beginnings of Eclisse. site in just a few days via specialist dealers. All system boxes are available as drywall and
Since then, the company has grown to 160 skilled workers with a daily production capac- solid wall versions and are supplied pre-assembled, which enables fast and error-free
ity of around 3,400 system boxes and swing door frames. installation. Eclisse is currently working on the market launch of the Eclisse 40 swing
door, which is expected to take place in Germany at the end of this year. Thanks to the
Right in the middle rather than just a part of it – Eclisse today door frame tilting inwards, the system boasts a significant look despite reduced details.
For the future, the company will retain its drive and will seek impulses for product
In August of this year, the move to a new production hall – planned entirely in accordance improvements and new developments in the everyday planning and construction work
with Industry 4.0 principles – representing an investment of over 23 million euros will of its customers. "Our customers tell us where to look. This often results in the most excit-
also be completed. The plant covers a major part of the production and thus avoids ing challenges for which we are working on the best solution," says Luigi De Faveri. So,
dependencies as regards supply. Luigi De Faveri explains: "We rely on a high vertical there are enough ideas for the next 30 years!

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