Kaynemaile win major international design award

Wellington company Kaynemaile win major international design award

Kaynemaile Limited, designers and manufacturers of a unique and innovative seamless mesh, have won a coveted iF Material Award at the international Hannover Fair in Germany.

The iF Material Award is one of the world’s most prestigious design competitions. Awarded by the International Forum Design (iF), the prize recognises outstanding achievements by designers, architects and manufacturers from around the world in the categories of “Materials and material applications”, “Processes”, “Ideas” and “Products”.

“This is a huge achievement for us,” said inventor and director Kayne Horsham. “To gain international exposure on this scale is fantastic for Kaynemaile. It is also great recognition for New Zealand, proving that Kiwi companies are capable of making a mark in the highly competitive areas of design and innovation on a global scale.”

Designed and manufactured in New Zealand, Kaynemaile is a unique, seamless polycarbonate mesh. Targeted initially at the design and architectural sectors due to its innovative, functional design offerings, Kaynemaile offers tremendous future potential for a range of commercial and industrial applications, clearly recognised and duly rewarded by the judges at the iF Awards.

Kaynemaile’s success is as much due to the innovative technology that is behind the mesh as the product itself. “Traditional chainmail-type materials all have inherent structural weaknesses due to the number of joins involved,” explains Kayne Horsham. “They can also be very heavy and expensive to produce due to the labour involved in post-production assembly.”

Offering a solution to these problems, Kaynemaile has developed a fully-automated construction process which utilises a patented modified injection-molding machine that allows a single polycarbonate ring to be moulded within multiple other rings.

“The result is a continuous and seamless product that is lightweight, but strong, with no inherent points of weakness through individual joins. It really is a quite unique and striking product.”

While still a relatively small Wellington-based company, Kaynemaile have ambitious growth plans domestically and internationally, and are working with some major players such as Bayer MaterialScience AG, one of the world’s largest polymer companies to expand their product offerings.

“Kaynemaile offers some pretty amazing qualities and functional attributes for designers and architects who are looking for that ‘X’ factor,” comments Kayne. “We have already received a significant amount of interest from overseas, and now following this award, we hope to uncover a number of new opportunities.”

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