Flexicat SWIFT succeeds in red dot design award

With its outstanding and innovative design, the Flexicat SWIFT based on the Flexicat technology succeeded in one of the most renowned and hardest international design competitions worldwide. In the red dot award: product design competition the Flexicat SWIFT was awarded the “red dot” quality seal for high design quality by the top-class expert jury. This award is only conferred to particularly creative, innovative, and high-quality products. In total 3,203 products from 51 nations faced the expert judgement this year. The festive awards presentation with more than 1,000 guests will take place on 23 June 2008 in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre.

The Flexible Swift is an innovative tool designed for convex and concave manual sanding. The main advantage of this tool is the flexible sanding board which is constantly pushed all over the tool’s working surface and thus provides an even constant pressure to the sanding surface.

Its original ergonomic shaping enables one or two handed work and is suitable for both right- and left-handed people.
For higher safety and a comfortable working level the Flexicat Swift equipped with a dust exhaust system. Swift, with its structural design could be supplemented with special adapters. This complete tool enables the sanding of variously deflected profiles and curves.

The exhibition of the winning products in the red dot design museum
Together with the other award-winning products, The Flexicat SWIFT will be on display from 24 June to 27 July 2008 in the exhibition “Design on stage – winners red dot award: product design 2008″ at the red dot design museum on the premises of the ‘Zeche Zollverein’ World Cultural Heritage Site. With approximately 1,500 products on more than 4,000 square metres, the red dot design museum houses the largest permanent exhibition of contemporary design worldwide.

via: designportal and Flexicat tools