Verosol technology

1960-1965 Shipbuilder Cornelis Verolme instructs one of his shipyards near Rotterdam to develop some metallising equipment, with which a thin layer of aluminium can be applied to curtain fabrics.

1965 Verolme Metallising starts marketing metallised curtain fabrics under the name Metalon.

1968 Metalon is changed into Verosol. ‘Vero’ for Verolme for ‘sol’ for solar (sun).

1971 The company is taken over by Blydenstein-Willink.

1971-1973 Blydenstein-Willink develops a product made from pleated metallised fabric: the pleated blind.

1974 Introduction of the pleated blind. Click here for the newspaper article of March 1974 (only in Dutch available).

Late 70ties Verosol enters the Australian and American market.

80ties New fabric qualities and transparencies are developed together with fabric treatments and fire-retardant versions. Furthermore new product applications of metallised fabric are produced: vertical blinds and roller blinds.

1995 Important strategic decisions are made to optimise the product routing and to install new equipment. Eibergen, The Netherlands, is selected for the build of a new factory.

1999 Verosol starts the process of developing a second metallising machine, which will be able to metallise fabric with a width of up to 240 cm (0,94 in).

2000 The new metallising machine, developed to apply a thin layer of metal to polyester, Trevira CS and screen fabric (up to a width of 240 cm ), starts production.

2003 Introduction of the SilverScreen.