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Production
Wooden photo albums. Any picture is
possible. Any colours, all particular wishes are put into practice.
"How are these wedding albums made?", people often ask us.
A simple answer would be: a slab of wood on top, a slab of wood at the bottom, and a reinforced holding element on the edge, all kept together by hinges. In fact, this type of precious wood processing is a lot of work and takes minute logical planning from the first step to the last. The search for wood types alone is extremely demanding. There must always be a sufficient amount of wood which has been dried for at least five years. This is - and was - the first challenge we took. The wood must have regular fibres. There are some types of wood which by nature do not grow equal fibres, so we have concentrated on Scandinavian pine, oak and beech. The above mentionend woods are precious timbers. Advantages of precious timber are durability and easy processing. Slabs of wood are selcted, cut and soaked in a liquid composed according to a secret formula. The slabs have to be turned around in this liquid formula once a day, air dried at high pressure for an hour and then soaked once again. This process yields a wooden slab so hard that it can only be destroyed by brute force. These slabs are (as can be seen in the photos) joint together by brass rivets. 
 In 2005
the beginnings of this joining procedure seemed a never-ending
desaster. As a result of our six week treatment the wood is extremely
hard and unbreakable, but also resistant.
Steel rivets broke, brass rivets loosened over a time, and the top slab moved and amost broke off at the rivets. A simple blacksmith from a modest village provided us with a solution just before Christmas in 2005. He forged a hinge out of a brass-zinc alloy. From a similar alloy, but containing more brass than zinc, he forged rivets, and small steel bolts. With a little imagination you can guess how complicated it was to assemble all these materials. First a bolt has to be inserted into the holes, then the hinges are fitted, and finally the rivets are fixed with an iron hand tool and a hammer. This assembly is - and always will be - manual work. Every single book is still made this way today. The blacksmith now exclusively makes "wood album hinges". The result, it turns out, is unique, protected by a world-wide patent, and the secret of our "magic potion" in which the slabs are soaked for six weeks is only known to two people in a company of currently 35 people. But the final product is something really special, too. Whether it is picture frames, guestbooks, wooden albums or furniture, everything is made with the same procedure, everything made with the same devotion. But the most wonderful thing about this product is our customers' reaction. For this we are very grateful. On May 5th, 2008, the products of our Aldecor Manufacture were outsourced from the Lotex companies and handed over to a team of their own. Thus the love and beauty we have put into this product are not mixed with tools, carrier bags and semi-open front storage containers. See www.lotex24.de, www.lotex24.eu, www.lotex24.com, www.lotex24.net, www.lotex24.biz, www.lotex24.pl etc. ... ..
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