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The environmental product declaration (EPD) of QKE and EPPA according to DIN ISO 14025 and EN 15804 is available online.

The documents for the online General Assembly meeting of 12 May 2020 are available in the member area of the Gütegemeinschaft.

A joint brochure of EPPA, Qualitätsverband (QKE), and Gütegemeinschaft, the brochure is written for window manufacturers and their customers. You can download it for free.

In 2019, we were able to both initiate and complete numerous projects.

RAL monitoring for the Gütegemeinschaft is being performed now in order to check that we meet RAL requirements when granting the RAL quality mark.

Due to the Corona pandemic we have restructured our work. This also has an impact on this year's general assembly meeting. The office remains operational.

The European Association for PVC Window Profile and related Building Products (EPPA), our Gütegemeinschaft as co-exhibitor and their members cancel their participation in this June's Fensterbau…

NürnbergMesse has decided to postpone FENSTERBAU FRONTALE until 16-19 June 2020.

We cordially invite you to our next general assembly meeting in Mannheim.

This is the topic of EPPA's trade fair appearance, this year in cooperation with GKFP, VinylPlus®, CSTB and SNEP.

The new RAL brochure on public contract awarding describes methods for purchasers to simplify their contract awarding and ensure they are on the safe side when it comes to legal matters by using RAL…

In addition to the new language version of the Technical Guide "Coloured Profiles", the "Welding" Guide is also available in a slightly revised version.

On 20 March 2020 our Gütegemeinschaft Kunststoff-Fensterprofilsysteme is collaborating with EPPA, the European Trade Association of PVC Profile Houses, to host the full “PVC Windows” programme block…

The Expert Group (EG) Master Data of the Gütegemeinschaft Kunststoff-Fensterprofilsysteme provides the master data export file as well as an interface description for testing online.

Shortly before publication of the RAL-GZ 716, small corrections were made that entail some changes for system providers particularly with regards to Part 1 of the special quality tests and inspections…

Surely you are familiar with the GKFP technical guideline for butt-welding, which describes the current state of the art for angled welding of PVC windows.

The Quality Association for Plastic Products (QKE) publishes a paper on the greenhouse potential of window frames made of PVC, wood and aluminium.

Our new brochure "Fenster fürs Leben" has been published as a specialist supplement in the March issue of the magazine "Familienheim und Garten".

In January and February 2019 the office of the Gütegemeinschaft offered three webinar dates for the revision of the Technical Appendix (TA) to RAL-GZ 716. Now the webinar documents are available. The…

On 24 January 2019, almost 100 visitors took part in the joint symposium of Gütegemeinschaft, GLASWELT and ift Rosenheim at the IntercityHotel in Mainz. The window manufacturers and representatives of…