Red Dot Awards for two SCHLEGEL products

Two products of SCHLEGEL were honored with the renowned GOOD DESIGN AWARD of the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. Specializing in switches, pushbuttons, control panels and emergency-stops, we received this high ranked award for our e-stop QUARTEX connect and for our new MK contact block.

The GOOD DESIGN AWARD is being awarded yearly by an international professional jury for innovative and elegant products and design solutions. It has been first awarded in 1950, making it one of the world´s oldest and prestigious design awards. From a variety of innovative solutions from 55 nations, the jury has awarded 1,100 awards in 30 categories. We have been awarded in the category "industrial products".

The design quality is an important characteristic for a design award, but it is certainly not the only one. The product's functionality also plays an important role for the evaluation made by the independent jury of the Good Design Award. In our case, both of the above-menitoned features convinced the jury. "We are very happy about this award. This proves once more that at SCHLEGEL, elegance and proficiency go hand in hand," says Managing Director Christoph Schlegel.

To pay special attention to elegant product design has a long tradition at SCHLEGEL. Our company has already won over 100 national and international design awards for our products. We received the GOOD DESIGN AWARD already several times: In 2021, SCHLEGEL convinced the experts in aesthetics with the proboxx series and in 2018 with the "RONDEX-JUWEL" series.

MK - Compact and robust
Flat, small, modular – those are the features of our new contact block. With the MK we succeeded in developing an extremely compact, yet powerful contact block. Due to its well-thought construction, the MK has a mounting depth of 17.6 mm - without any loss in performance.

With the MK, we optimized our well-established modular concept of contact blocks. The contact blocks can be combined and mounted into the module holder as required. The distinct colorings of the NO, NC and LED module facilitate the handling. The design allows a simple mounting in a 9 mm standard width and with less distance.

The MK, already being honored with the Focus Open award, is versatile in the SCHLEGEL world: It fits all SCHLEGEL pushbuttons and switches of all the ranges with a 22 mm housing neck.

QUARTEX connect
SCHLEGEL developed a new illuminated QUARTEX connect e-stop, providing additional value with its illuminated status indication. The illuminated protective collar emphasises the functional safety aspect while setting an astonishingly aesthetical detail.

The standard setting of the emergency-stop is not illuminated. When, in a situation of danger, the emergency-stop is pushed, the integrated LEDs inside the protective collar light up. This visual signal immediately indicates where the emergency occurred. The illumination ensures that the emergency-stop is clearly visible, even in poor lighting conditions.

The emergency-stop was developed in accordance with the directives EN 13850 and EN 60947-5-1, has all necessary approvals and meets the degrees of protection IP54 (rear) and IP65 (front): This guarantees that the emergency-stop is protected against dust and splashing water from any direction. The emergency stop, tested for 50,000 switching cycles, ensures a long mechanical life.

The QUARTEX connect e-stop has a M12 connector, enabling a quick and safe connection, and is designed for 22.3 mm mounting holes. The contact equipment is 2 NC + 1 NO.

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