Wedi GmbH

Innovative system solutions for wet rooms
The wedi success story started in 1983 when master tiler Helmut Wedi invented the 100% waterproof, directly tileable building board and founded the company in Emsdetten, Germany. He set himself a goal to develop high-quality, but above all, practical solutions for tradesmen that provide real added value in their day-to-day work. What started as a one-man operation in the garage of his own house has grown into a global company supplying innovative wet room solutions in more than 50 countries world-wide. The wedi Group, with its more than 500 employees, still is the leading manufacturer of XPS building products: to be able to cope with the international demand, wedi opened a new production site in Batavia, Illinois, USA in 2016. The board with its blue core made from extruded polystyrene rigid foam is still the trademark of the family company, managed today by the second generation, Stephan Wedi together with Fabian Rechlin. The wedi building board, which was trendsetting for the entire industry and the name of which is still used as a generic term when referring to tile backer boards, has been joined by many other innovations during the past 37 years. As a result, today, the premium wedi brand stands for carefully considered system solutions for the individual, effortless design of bathrooms and wet rooms.

Building, renovating and designing in a system
“Demanding requirements and the ever-present time pressure: the challenges for bathroom professionals have become ever greater in recent years, and the skill shortage makes the situation even harder. That's why we offer intelligent, modular system solutions that make the realisation of bathrooms, wellness oases and spas quick, reliable and aesthetically pleasing,” explains Managing Director Stephan Wedi. The company's portfolio spans from complete building systems, carefully considered flush-to-floor shower systems and exciting design elements for which the wedi building board was the base, through aesthetic design surfaces and practical system accessories to comprehensive module and commercial construction services. All products can be used individually as well as, thanks to their modular nature, combined with one another as desired to create an overall concept. Individual products thus become a system and multiple systems then form a 100% waterproof wedi system bathroom.

Guaranteed quality
“The wedi brand stands for reliability and superior product quality in all our systems, and I put my name to it. The end user associates the certainty of being able to enjoy showering in their personalised bathroom every morning for many years without the worry about leaks or mould with our quality promise. The quality, for the fitter, naturally means being assured that all wedi products interlock with one another and form a sealed, functional whole. Thanks to our high quality standard, we are able to offer trained wedi specialists an additional performance promise, on top of the statutory warranty, in the form of a voluntary guarantee for up to 20 years,” explains Stephan Wedi.