Wedi

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.