TeNo Service: An important adress for New York Sightseeing: TeNo Store, 95 Spring Street, SoHo.

Now it’s time and we nearly made it. We put on the Christmas cap and go on winter holiday. We are hoping to spend a great Christmas time, to have a good start of the new year and to be able to take a break from the hectic holiday season.

TeNo will be on works holidays until the 9^th of January 2012.

We wish you a wonderful Christmas time, a happy new year and we hope to see you all back again in 2012.

If you once travel to Shanghai – here is the adress. :-)

Following the relocation of the stand from Hall B1 to Hall B2, made necessary by the new focus of the trade fair in 2011, TeNo had relied on Messe München’s agreement that it would be able to keep this position in future years. The stand for Inhorgenta 2012, which was then newly planned as a result of this, however, can now no longer be implemented following yet another surprising relocation of the stand to an unobtrusive position on the edge of the exhibition hall and the associated surface area. Following several failed attempts to reach a joint compromise with the project management, TeNo’s managing director, Jürgen Heinz, has now taken a stand. “It cannot be in our interests to lose our stand’s position once again and be pushed to the sidelines due to the trade fair’s new focus,” the TeNo managing director, Jürgen Heinz explains. „“And this is despite the fact that last year, before the relocation to B2 due to the reorganization that had already begun, we were explicitly assured that we would be able to keep this position in future years. We would possibly have accepted a deterioration in the situation if Messe München had been prepared to compromise and had put forward constructive arguments. Unfortunately, however, the communication was all one-sided and the flow of information nothing if not slow. From previous years we have been used to a much better standard of cooperation.”

TeNo has an excellent, highly-efficient external sales force, which over the coming weeks will present our latest new designs and of course our classic pieces, too, to the specialized trade. Moreover, in 2012 the company will be present with a stand at the Utrecht trade fair as well as at the JCK Las Vegas. Irrespective of the company’s non-attendance in 2012, Jürgen Heinz can see TeNo returning for Inhorgenta 2013. This would be on condition that an improved and more constructive dialogue is achieved with Messe München and that agreement can be reached on a stand position that is equivalent to that of previous years.

We just have to answer a question which has been asked on the occasion of our campaign of asking us things you would like to know about TeNo. Tanja wrote:

“I would like to know if we can compile the pendants of the bracelets ourselvers?”

Our One-Minute-Show gives you an insight into the variety of combinations of our collection.

Those who like to prepare for their next visit at a TeNo jeweller nearby may also use our YuKoN Creator to try different combinations of elements.

How do ceramics get into the steel and how are they held?

At first an example of a piece of jewellery with an inlay made of high tech ceramics – here you see the pendant Veena with ceramics and a brilliant.

Or rings with the typical TeNo inlay.

What a great number among you might not know – such jewellery inlays made of stainless steel are a great challenge. To make the inlays lay in the steel neatly and extremely accurately, the stainless steel at first is worked on with high technology and routed out with a CNC mortising machine – accurate to the millimetre. Without this highly technologic CNC technique, it would not be possible to create the typical straight forms of TeNo.

After that, the dexterity of our employees is needed because they work on manually. Three layers of a tough mass of ceramics are added in and hardened by UV.

At the end, the hardened inlays of ceramics are dragged in without joins into the surface of the piece of jewellery.

How are Byron and his friend Floyd?

We can answer shortly: They are very fine. :)

Floyd (on the left) and Byron

Byron is surprising us a bit at the moment – after he has joined us so many years in the TeNo Office and was very good and relaxed, he now barks from time to time. Up to this moment, we haven’t been able to figure out the reason. Floyd also is finally fine again. He had some problems with his skin which came from a fodder allergy. But now we partly have got it licked. So everything is fine at the animal members of the TeNo family.