News, trade fairs and workshops
Die neue Fughilfe für Naturstein und mineralische, saugfähige Beläge
From 15 to 18 September 2026, GftK will be at GaLaBau in Nuremberg — the international leading trade fair for urban green spaces and open areas. You will find us in hall 4a at stand 303.
How do you joint pool coping slabs properly and durably? Our practical video shows vdw 885 plus FugenFlex being applied on site — including the right accessories.
Manuel Alberg officially started in our application engineering team today. We are delighted to welcome him to the team!
How is vdw 415 cement joint mortar applied in practice? Our application video shows it directly at a pool installation built by Wolf GaLaBau.
On 15 July 2026 our application engineering team took part in the Hagebau apprentice camp — and came first with its contribution.
Right in front of Kiel city hall, a sample surface for a protected cycle lane was created together with the City of Kiel — realised with our application engineering team, our sales partner Team Infra and the contractor on site.
With vdw VarioSand, GftK now also offers its polymer-bound special jointing sand for narrow paving joints in a practical bag — developed for joint widths of 2 to 4 mm.
Spring is renovation season: now is the time to renew terraces, paths and paved surfaces. With the vdw joint mortar systems, exterior surfaces become durable, stable and significantly easier to maintain.
GftK is honoured as Industry Champion 2025.
The workshop season is starting!
Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas
We are taking a short break! Our business will be closed from 22 December 2025 until 4 January 2026 inclusive.
The waterproof, fast-curing, frost-resistant flex joint mortar is ideal for ceramic, concrete and natural stone slabs. Thanks to its self-compacting formulation, it ensures a...
After an impressive 23 years in field sales, Mr Nico Wien is leaving us, a true pioneer of the vdw mortar systems. For personal reasons, he is moving to a new region and is unable to continue his work at...
We are taking company holidays from 23 December 2023. We will be back for you from 4 January 2024.
The new brochure "vdw mortar systems, planning notes on laying terrace slabs with ceramic surfaces" aims to provide further information on the current regulatory frameworks.
Our new range catalogue 2023/2024 has been published. You can view it online here as a flip catalogue.
To strengthen our team in Rheinbach, we are looking for an employee (m/f/d) in internal sales National as well as Export, starting immediately.
Just in time for the leading European trade fair GaLaBau 2022 in Nuremberg, we are presenting our new permanently elastic joint compound vdw 885 plus FugenFlex compact.
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