Company headquarters, where you can also find our training facility "GDS ACADEMY"

About us

We are a family company founded in 1991 by Karel Batla.

Various materials and technologies for glass decoration. We will advise you on the selection of appropriate techniques for your specific project. We will train your team. Do you need to refine glass in any of its forms? Then we are here for you.

We produce and colour paints for printing toughened glass for use in architecture, colours for decorating beverage, decorative and utility glass. We introduce technologies for colouring, printing and sandblasting glass.

Already 33 years

For 33 years we have been here for all those who want to decorate or otherwise refine glass.

"Speed, quality, service, but also courtesy, fair treatment and pleasure from the work done. This is what we have been trying to do since 1991. "

2024

Our long-term activities in the field of training and education on the topic of glass decoration and refinement are covered under the name GDS ACADEMY.

2013

Reconstruction of the new facility completed.

8127 m2 area of the complex

1078 m2 of office and production spac

230 m2 of development and training space

2012

The entrepreneur Batla Karel - GlassDekorService transforms the company into GDS Technology s.r.o. (legal form of incorporation of the company, which guarantees legal continuity).

Capital: 18.200.000,- CZK (approx 728.000,- EUR)

We are solving the lack of space for further development by buying a new, larger site and embarking on its reconstruction.

2000

SIBO the largest glass exhibition in the Czech Republic. We are there.

1997

We're growing and getting bigger spaces. The circle is coming full circle and the "Panský dům" (manor house), as the building where the founder of the glassworks worked is called, is once again alive with glassmaking.

1994

We are gradually adding technology to the materials. Thanks to many years of experience in glass decoration, consultation and advice becomes an important part of the company's know-how.

We're getting our first three-roller paint paste. A small EXACT 50 (you don't even want to know how long it took to paste 20 KG of paint). But it marks a significant moment in the company's history and sets the direction we are taking.

In 1994 we exhibited at the glass fair in Košice (SK).

1989 = Start

After the Velvet Revolution, Šárka Batlová became an independent glass painter. Batla Karel founded the GlassDekorService business in 1991. The company's focus is on the distribution of decorative materials from international manufacturers such as Cerdec-Degussa, Heraeus, Johnsonn Matthey, Rüger & Günzel, Feustel, KDV.

Before 1989

Karel Batla and Šárka Batlová work in the state enterprise OSVĚTLOVACÍ SKLO VALAŠSKÉ MEZIŘÍČÍ.

Karel Batla in the development of lighting fixtures and Šárka Batlová as a glass painter.

1854

In 1855 the glassworks S. Reich & Co. was founded in Valašské Meziříčí. At that time the largest glassworks in Wallachia region.

And why do we mention it? Without these glassworks, the founders of our company, Mr. and Mrs. Batla, would probably never have worked in the glass industry.

Salomon Reich

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