KAV received an ALUTA Award of Excellence again
2017 / 10 / 26
In the “Small project” (i.e. residential building) category KAV received the 2017 ALUTA Award of Excellence for the special facade of its Zugliget family home reference, for its engineering work and implementation.
At the members’ meeting of the professional association Károly Lovász, Managing Director of KAV, accepted the only quality recognition for Hungarian aluminium closing system and facade manufacturers, the ALUTA Award of Excellence, from Sándor Fegyverneky, the Chairman of ALUTA (the former chief architect of Hungary), member of the panel. The other panel member was György Stocker (DLA), and its Chairman Dr. József Finta (Artist of the Nation, an architect holding a Kossuth Prize).
The KAV team would like to say a warm thank you for this recognition!
More about the ALUTA association
It is a professional and interest representation group established to implement the common interests of the member companies of the Aluminium Window and Facade Association. Only companies that consider the quality of production and products as an inevitable basic requirement in the implementation of their market strategy will thus become a holder of the ALUTA trademark. By using its technical and intellectual knowledge base, the association provides community services to its members, and represents them in the European association called FAECF (Federation of European Window and Curtain Walling Manufacturers Associations) and in the Hungarian Standards Institution. In accordance with its purpose and with the assistance from EU organisations, it provides further training, quality improvement and quality assurance services to its members. In its programme it considers the mid-term market development of its members as its main task and. To achieve it, it uses the help of the most excellent experts, media exposure and, last but not least, cooperation with decision-makers.”
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