france area served worldwide slogan the world looks better website www.technal.co.uk en technal is a brand of sapa the norwegian group whose business focuses on aluminium extrusion based solutions . 1 part of sapa s building systems division technal is present in europe latin america south africa . 2 it is engaged in the development manufacturing and marketing of aluminum glazing systems for commercial public and residential buildings . contents 1 history 2 history of the logo 3 activities 4 technal worldwide 5 references 6 external links history edit in 1960 andr bos founded alusud designing aluminum window systems . the company was based in amidonniers toulouse in the south west of france . products included aluminum profiles and anodised sheets . 3 the company worked with glazing companies metalworkers and locksmiths enabling the development of shopfront systems in the early 1960s . the business continued to develop in the south of france . in the 1970s bos took activity abroad creating technal international . by 1986 technal export had licensees in lebanon south africa and ivory coast . exports to the caribbean pacific and indian ocean regions west africa north africa central america south america and asia followed . a joint venture in bahrain was established in 2000 . in 2002 the norsk hydro group bought technal and when hydro merged its aluminium extrusion activities with sapa s extrusion business in 2013 technal became part of the new sapa joint venture . 4 history of the logo edit technal logo the technal logo sympbolises one of its key product components the 4114 profile . in 1960 the first logo showed the company name alusud the a becoming a stylised graphic in 1966 . when the company opened overseas in 1970 the name and the graphic representation of the 4114 profile were brought together to form a new logo and the emblem of the technal system ; alusud became known as technal . in 1983 the brand and logo were brought together and two years later a new graphic was created and became internationally widespread . in 1995 the graphic identity of technal was redesigned to represent the much evolved business . activities edit technal markets its products through aluminum glazing companies . it has a network of certified installers technal aluminier network in france spain and portugal to ensure fabrication and installation quality and compliance with standards and regulations . technal also works with architects contractors and building owners directly on projects from design to completion . 5 the main product categories are aluminium doors sliding windows casement windows balustrades curtain walling . 6 the headquarters in toulouse france has a product development and research centre which carries out prototype manufacture and testing and product testing . technal offers laborartory testing to verify compliance with european and international standards and product performance for both internal requirements and external certification bodies . technal also works for the recycling of its products in factories . technal worldwide edit technal in the world technal is present in europe belgium united kingdom ireland switzerland italy spain portugal ... and in over 70 countries . operations are conducted from the headquarters in france toulouse and from its subsidiaries in south east asia middle east india south america south africa and morocco . 7 references edit a hydro brand . technal . retrieved 2013 10 13 . technal.com . technal . retrieved 2013 10 13 . 50 years of technal innovation ... . technal . 2010 10 18 . retrieved 2013 10 13 . technal . monitorclipper.com . retrieved 2013 10 13 . 1 dead link technal . ribaproductselector.com . retrieved 2013 10 13 . europe . technal . 2009 06 19 . retrieved 2013 10 13 . external links edit technal.com retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title technal & oldid 678551014 categories companies established in 1960manufacturing companies of francenorwegian brandsfrench brandshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from october 2013 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages espa olfran ais edit links this page was last modified on 30 august 2015 at 02 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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