- New elegant style Phoenixwood venetian blind - revolutionary routeless slat design
- Wide 50mm slat size with new contemporary valence and bottom rail design
- Available in 11 exclusive colors with a modern oyster finish
- 14 widths from 300mm to 2400mm and drop to 270cm
- Room darkening effect when closed
- Delivered on time every time
- Affordable supply chain solution
Norman Europe’s new Privacywood blind program was launched 4th January 2010, when we unveiled our elegant Privacywood blind range complete with the new custom-fit supply concept. We receive a great reaction from all our customers who are currently bringing this new original wood blind product to their markets across Europe. Norman Europe’s full service logistic warehouse (centrally located in the Netherlands) supports our “Privacywood” business partners with quick turnaround times and short deliveries to take advantage of this new market opportunity.
As European consumers are very mindful about sustainable development and the fight against climate change we recognized a gap for wood products in the European window covering market. Wood products definitely play a role in mitigating climate change by increasing carbon removals from the atmosphere. Their specific properties, such as carbon storage capacity, high recyclability, renewable resource status and their low production demand for fossil fuels make wood products a sustainable choice for the future.
Against the backdrop of today’s extremely competitive market and uncertain economic outlook, Norman recognizes the importance in supporting our customers with new and innovative products offering clear differentiation and value. (Find more information under Environment)
With a small investment on behalf of our Privacywood business partners, they have the ability to quickly deliver a “new look”, high quality made to measure original wood blind product in scalable quantities at a very competitive price. We are expecting that “Privacy” will offer our clients the opportunity to significantly expand the wood market segment throughout Europe.
Norman Europe´s Privacywood blind incorporates the new elegant slat design (routless), offering consumers a sleek modern natural looking blind with easy operation, tight closure, room darkening effect and the highest level of privacy.
Silk
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Pearl
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Limed White
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Mellow Beech
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French Oak
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Amber Oak
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Rich Walnut
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Old Teak
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Black Walnut
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Rustic Grey
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Black
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(Please note that the actual colours differ slightly.)
“Privacywood” is made from phoenixwood a lightweight hardwood revealing a beautiful textured oak wood finish. As a plantation timber it plays an integral role in mitigating climate change. Phoenixwood is known as one of the most efficient tree species absorbing greenhouse gases (13t of CO2, gas and dust per acre of trees per year) and releasing 6 kg of oxygen per day per tree. Also as an additional bonus phoenixwood is naturally durable and fire resistant.
For Norman Europe the Privacywood custom-fit program completes our total wood product offering, enabling us to provide products at all levels in the market……good, better and best. This underlines our company’s mission of being a proactive manufacturing partner for leading fabricators and window covering distributors throughout Europe.
The custom-fit concept involves a four step process of resizing the blind supplied in standard widths and drops. The first step is to adjust the length by adding or removing slats.
To simplify the process for blind orders with longer drops we support our clients by supplying the required additional pre-punched slats with each order. This saves our clients time and money in reduced inventory and fabrication costs.
The second step is to complete the length adjustment by attaching the bottom rail that is supplied with each blind.
The third step is to adjust the width of the blind with a purpose built custom-fit machine that trims the wood slats, bottom rail and steel head rail simultaneously (up to 15cm per blind). This is followed by touching up the trimmed ends of the slats and bottom rail with stain or paint.
The final step is to cut the valence to size and repackage the blind ready for delivery.
Norman’s custom-fit Privacywood blind program has been developed together with our distribution partners offering the market a trouble free, robust, original wood blind ensuring long term performance and consumer satisfaction. We incorporated many of the premium quality operational components from our made to measure original wood blind program. This has resulted in a unique product offering that is not only exclusive but also affordable.
Now with the Norman Europe Privacywood custom-fit blind you can deliver to your clients a high quality made to measure privacywood venetian blind at a very competitive price on time- every time…. Remember WOOD is GOOD and now made EASY by PRIVACY!
Norman Europe is currently seeking additional custom-fit privacywood blind partners throughout Europe. If you are a leading and progressive blind distributor/fabricator and want to take up the “Privacywood” challenge please contact us for further details.