Product Design

Total Quality

Total quality is the main objective of Vortice and careful attention is given to every stage of production, in order to ensure each Vortice product is manufactured to the highest standards.

Based in Burton on Trent, each department is constantly engaged in the process of carefully selecting, checking and analysing its procedures in order to improve its standards even further.

In 1988, the Vortice quality system received BSI certification (British Standard Institution).

Vortice is currently certified in accordance with the CSQ-CISQ EN ISO 9002 standards for the manufacture and sale of industrial and domestic air-treatment products. Conformance of the above Vortice quality system is also acknowledged through the IQNET certificate.

Design

Vortice has always considered product design of primary importance. Although the products are made to improve the quality of our life, they are also designed to have a pleasing appearance, as well as being both ergonomic and functional.

From the 70's, the aesthetic appearance of Vortice products has been very exceptional thanks to the collaboration of such prestigious international names as Zanuso, Sapper, Trabucco and Vecchi.

The great amount of effort put into achieving these results has undoubtedly lengthened the life of many of the products and has even made them 2 "ageless".

Museum exhibits, exhibits and acknowledgments

Over the years, Vortice has gained a reputation for not only creating objects which are functional and technologically advanced, but are also for creating products which are very pleasing to the eye. In fact, Vortice products have received may awards and acknowledgements for their design, and indeed many have also been exhibited in museums the world over. In 1979, Marco Zanuso's Ariante 1 received the prestigious Golden Compass award. In that same year, a large range of proposed ceiling-mounted extractor fans gained immediate success.

These were then followed by the production of heaters and the Caldofa fan heater followed by many more sophisticated products which have been welcomed world wide. In 1987, Vortice received the Golden Compass award "For the continued effort it had applied to the design and quality of its products". A large number of Vortice products have been exhibited in such prestigious international museums as, the Moma in New York, the Jerusalem Museum in Israel, the Tamajo in Mexico City, and the Hanover Museum, as well as the Brazil Expo in San Paolo.