Glass Ceramic Cooktop Panels

Christine Fuhr

New Perspective on Cooking

Shiny metallic Ceran Cleartrans® cooktops in various colors now make it possible to create the link between popular lifestyle trends and modern technology.

Is the kitchen really only a room to prepare and store food in ? At least in the developed countries, this definition alone is hardly suffcient in describing kitchens that are extremely well-furnished and used in a much more sophisticated manner. Rather than remaining purely functional, today’s kitchens reflect one’s own sense of identity and personal lifestyle. As this suggests, it is important to equip a kitchen with features capable of meeting even the highest demands.

Trend scouts and designers, as well as household appli ance and kitchen manufacturers, are always busy thinking about new developments and trends that could hit the kitchen in the years to come. Besides the surfaces of kitchen furniture, several other considerations play an important role. To begin with, esthetic and emotional, but also techni cal-functional aspects and, thirdly, the quality and instru mentation of the appliances need to be considered. For manufacturers of kitchens and household appliances, this means being able to stand out and present an attractive appearance, rather than looking uniform or only average.

Thanks to the transparency and smooth, nub-free underside, the displays that show functions can be integrated much more easily. This represents the second distinguishing feature of Ceran Cleartrans®. To do so, a semi-transparent metal coating that makes it possible to display functions is applied to the display area. Visualization of the displays can be achieved with the help of various LED colors. As this suggests, blue, green or white elements replace red-colored function displays. SCHOTT expects to see such displays become more and more popular in the future. They offer customers in the household appliance industry the opportunity to make a name for themselves on the market, due to the unique design and appearance of their products. This results in polarization and means the worlds of the product and the brand can be emotionalized by using color. It enables the manufacturers to develop innovative, brandspecific products, to strengthen their image and generate sustained competitive advantages.