gräfix - Building materials for walls and floors
The good prevails
gräfix: Biological building materials for walls and floors. Gräfenberg is located in the northern Franconian Alb, at the southern entrance to "Franconian Switzerland", and thus at the north-eastern end of the large Jurassic range, which continues from France via the Swiss Jura and the Swabian Alb to the Franconian Jura. Gräfenberg lies in the area of the White Jurassic with the typical "banked limestones", which formed in the Jurassic Sea around 155 million years ago. In the White Jurassic, limestones were formed by precipitation of calcite from the seawater and from the fragments of calcareous hard parts of organisms that died in the sea, such as corals, mussels, calcareous sponges, sea urchins and brachiopods.
We extract this high-quality and valuable raw material in a selective mining process, for use in a wide range of applications and for further processing.
Good things prevail
All products are ecological and sustainable.
A holistic view of the company's processes starts with the development of new products and ideas.
As a medium-sized company, it has been our maxim for many years not only to extract and refine raw materials, but also to think about ecological and sustainable utilisation and recycling. Similarly, as a small manufacturer, innovation and customer service are of fundamental importance to us and are "lived" by our team, but also to set us apart from our large competitors.
Another step in the right direction
Administration in Gräfenberg
With the relocation of the administration to our main production site in Gräfenberg, a long-planned wish has been fulfilled. A contemporary and technically modern building was integrated into the neighbourhood parallel to the B2. Equipped with a spacious showroom and the corresponding exhibits, our customer can inform himself optimally. Various training and conference rooms can be used optimally and mutimedially for meetings, training courses and seminars.
Our quarry
Lime - the building block of life
Lime is not only an important building block of life, it is also the fifth most common element on earth. Lime was already present in prehistoric times around 2 billion years ago. However, it was the Jurassic period, with its diversity of species and plants, that brought about the largest proportion of today's raw material deposits. An interplay of deposition and erosion of rock layers over millions of years led to the formation of the Franconian Jurassic limestone, among other things. Tectonic shifts and the retreat of the shallow sea left behind a charming and unique landscape with some bizarre rock formations and a large number of embedded ammonites. For this reason, we grant fossil collectors access to collect fossils on two fixed days a year.
The oldest limestone kilns to date were found in what is now Iraq and are estimated to date back to around 2500 BC. A complex and energy-intensive extraction and production process that was only made easier with industrialisation. Thanks to the wealth of possible applications, lime found its way into all areas of daily life. In construction in particular, the reproducible and qualitative advantages could be utilised by burning the limestone in modern kilns, slaking and grinding it in the factory and then packaging it as a powder material. A further step towards sustainability and efficiency is to selectively allocate the raw material before it is extracted. A measure that saves resources and has a positive impact on quality prior to production and refinement.
Plasters for every need
z. e.g. plaster straw elements directly and securely all round with gräfix 73 Pajalith
gräfix plasters
Natural colours for creative design
With gräfix lime or mineral colours there are countless possibilities
gräfix lime and mineral paints
Designing outdoor areas creatively and safely
safely construct terraces, balconies and walkways with gräfix Monodrän and prevent frost damage
Gardening and landscaping- Products for professional natural stone laying
- Healthy building
- Healthy living design
- Plasters for every need
- Natural colours for creative design
- Designing outdoor areas creatively and safely
Reliably good quality of the pure lime products and excellent co-operation with the gräfix sales force
Atelier Gerlach plasters the oldest half-timbered house in Thuringia with swamp lime decorative plaster
We, Atelier Gerlach, are an ecological building materials dealer and processor and have been in business since 1995. As a manufacturer from the very beginning, we can rely on the consistently high quality of gräfix products. We mainly process and sell pure lime products, such as the gräfix 61 basic plaster, 61 fine, the entire range of swamp lime products and silicate paints. In 2005, we plastered the Niedermühle in Coswig with gräfix 61, last year we plastered the oldest half-timbered house in Thuringia in the Hohenfelden open-air museum with swamp lime decorative plaster and swamp lime filler and we have already applied over 10 tonnes of gräfix 61 base plaster in Wilhelmsthal Castle. The quality and reliability of the products are always outstanding. However, the decades of cooperation have only worked so well thanks to the excellent work of the gräfix field service, who are always on hand to offer help and advice!
Atelier Gerlach
Gotha
The best cleaning system for me
gräfix 71 lite nh lime-based lightweight plaster nh and gräfix 685
For me, the gräfix 71 lite nh with the gräfix 685 is the best cleaning system. Both products impressed me with their naturalness. The ease of application is particularly ingenious. The plaster finish is also very convincing. I used it to decorate an entire house and had no problems with moisture damage, even in unfavourable weather conditions. The materials were able to compensate wonderfully for the unfavourable weather conditions, which surprised me very positively compared to competitor products. The building material lime in the gräfix products completely convinced me! If I were a master plasterer designing my own home today, these two products would be my first choice.
Ikas Helmut plastering company
Markelsheim
- Reliably good quality of the pure lime products and excellent co-operation with the gräfix sales force
- The best cleaning system for me
Ready-mixed dry mortar has many advantages
Functioning quality assurance and an existing liability management system
The invention of ready-mixed dry mortar was a ground-breaking development in the preparation and realisation of planned construction projects. With the development of formulas, production processes could be controlled. Products were now reproducible and the ingredients of the recipe could be harmonised and finely dosed. A completely different quality management and solid quality assurance for the construction work could now be achieved.
Almost 90 years later, ready-mixed dry mortar is still on its triumphal march. Packaged in sacks, film or buckets, as well as loose in silos, the quality and above all the logistical advantages are absolutely unbeatable. Furthermore, there is an increasing call for harmonised products, as well as the question of product liability according to the specified parameters in our increasingly regulated processes.