Very good shower concept comes from Germany. The company named Bette proves that functionality and design goes hand in hand with superior manufacturing process.
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If you have a company that produces more than 50,000 baths and showers each month, that's good. If you have 500 different models and 1000 colours, that's better. And if you can maintain the highest quality and design for 56 year, that's Bette.
Bette company was founded in Germany, in city of Delbrück in 1952. From that day several million baths have left the manufacturers' factory. Bette is the company that exports some 45 percent of its products to Europe and countries of Southeast Asia and the company is a specialist for steel/enamel. As the most of German companies, Better invested several years and a great deal of money, we don't have the exact number at the time of this writing, in cooperation with Bayer AG. The two companies developed the technology that achieves maximum quality with a minimum of glaze, and the hard-wearing but delicate coating also has a unique brilliance.
How does that process looks like? Thousands of steel plates lie in great piles prior to making their way to the deep-drawing press. The sheet metal is shaped very gently. The punch of the positive mould stretches the metal into a negative mould with a force of more than 1,000 tonnes. That could not be achieved with every steel. Bette uses high-quality decarburised and titanium-improved steel. A technique is used here, not only for the enamelling, but also for the deep-drawing, which Bette has played a key role in developing and which is exclusive to the company.
Then the bath blank moves on to the punching machine and is given the hole for the waste. A helium-neon laser then cuts the rim to its proper shape. At the next station the edges are bent. The bath is then given a thorough shower. Perfect enamelling can only be carried out on clean steel. After a drying, the second coat of glaze is applied. Removing the smallest unevenness, the two coats bond together in such a way that a completely smooth finish is attained. In the spray booth three robots side by side are at work spraying the mixture of water, finely ground glass and colour pigments, as well as a hint of ceramic materials, thinly and evenly over the bath carcass. The baths pass through the tunnel kiln.
The first two enamel coats are baked on at a temperature of at least 830° C. All the baths are still gleaming white, as they are not given their final colour until the second coating. The third coat of glaze and a second time through the enamelling kiln: The bath is now perfect. If the product passes that final quality control, Bette guarantees the quality for the next 30 years
One of the products that surely needs to be seen is Bettefloor. Instead of stepping up and down, you may have a shower in level with the floor. It makes a shower an integral part of bathroom but is has additional good sides. For one, it's ideal for people with mobility problems, and it looks very nice. The design is simple and it fits in every bathroom. The circular drain in the centre of the Bettefloor allows the water to drain away without protruding in any way, and the plate of glass lets light flow in to the area. ■