It’s not only the biggest and most revolutionary cruise ship in the world, but with seven main themed areas it is probably also the most spectacular. The naming ceremony for Royal Caribbean International’s Oasis of the Seas – a ship of superlatives – takes place on monday at her home port of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale (USA).

Thermopal have just be successful in getting the first CPD (Continual Professional Development) rattified by RIBA for inclussion in the RIBA CPD Network Providers listing.

Thermopal, the wood materials manufacturer, has blazed a new trail with its recently launched "Designers' Collection". The Leutkirch-based company invited a number of renowned designers and architects to create designs for a separate collection from the standard range - and now this bold step away from mainstream design developments has also convinced an international jury of experts: Thermopal has won the red dot design award, one of the leading and most significant international design awards.

new designs "By creatives for creatives" is an exceptional collection that is intended to inspire planners and designers with new ideas for interior architectural design. Six internationally renowned studios from Germany, Switzerland, Spain and Italy have turned their attention to high quality, versatile HPL. Resultat: 18 avantgarde designs, each in three different colour-tones.

In the past, architects and planners have often had to compromise when creating the interiors of public buildings. But now the innovation "flameprotect compact" sets new standards in safety and design freedom. The board is also a highlight creatively: available in over 300 different designs, it offers tremendous design freedom for interior architects and developers.

Thermopal is presenting an especially haptic surface innovation: the graphic structure 72 "Linea" for a straight lined, elegant appearance...

The partition walls in the Radisson SAS in Frankfurt have been realized using Thermopal Individual. The digital templates of the architect John Seifert from Frankfurt have been pressed into HPL with the help of the most modern digital printing technology...

On 3rd June, the executive board of the Pfleiderer AG approved an investment package with a total volume of 9 million euros for its subsidiary Thermopal. The investments include a new impregnation channel and a new warehouse for impregnated decorative paper...