By Patrick Avenell at EuroCucina

Neff is looking to add an attractive design element to its upcoming kitchen appliances releases, with the German brand showcasing new designs rather than new technology at the EuroCucina kitchen appliance trade fair overnight.

Neff, which is globally part of the Bosch Siemens company and is distributed in Australia by Sampford IXL, is perhaps best known locally for its Slide and Hide oven doors. Despite the convenience of this technology, Neff product manager – cooking, Nikolaus Schnetzer, told Current.com.au that functionality will be joined by attractive aesthetic elements by the end of the year.

"Neff has always had the technology in our ovens but not the design," he said. "Designers would use our ovens but would look to Italy for the rangehoods."

In order to change that mixing and matching, Neff is now showcasing the Air Deluxe 100, which will go on sale in Europe this month, and potentially in Australia in 2013.

Schnetzer said the standout feature of this rangehood, in addition to its floating box design, are filters from German manufacturer Mahle.

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"These filters allow for low noise, high power and extremely high odour reduction – around 98 per cent," he claimed.

Also on show at the Neff stand is a new five-zone FlexInduction hob. This 80 centimetre appliance contains three dedicated induction zones and one large FlexInduction zone which can be used for two regular sized cookware pieces or one large piece. Neff claims a market first with this release.

Finally, Neff has a new Twin Pump vario-steam oven. The advantage of a second pump is that, according to Neff, during the transformation process of water to steam with the oven's pipes, drops can become stranded between the reservoir and the oven cavity. The second pump pushes this water back to the reservoir to prevent clogging.

Nikolaus Schnetzer with a concept, frameless VarioSteam oven.

The Air Deluxe 100, which has just been released in Europe.

A prototype version of a new rangehood.