Novy is a Belgian specialist that has spent more than a century on a single idea: kitchen extraction you can barely hear. It is only now arriving here. We thought a brand like this deserved more than a quiet entrance, so we filmed the first local display going in and put together this introduction.
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Novy is a name most Australian homeowners have not run into yet. In Belgium it is the market leader in kitchen ventilation, a company that has been refining the same craft since 1907. Now it is establishing itself in Australia, and one of the first things to go in was a working display at its local headquarters.
What Novy does is narrower than most appliance brands, and that is the whole point. It builds cooker hoods and venting hobs, which pair an induction cooktop with the extraction built straight into it, plus a small lighting range. That is the entire catalogue. Every product rests on one idea: a well made extractor should be quiet, should disappear into the kitchen, and should not need a bulky hood hanging over an island bench.
We were there as that first display came together and felt a brand like this deserved more than a quiet arrival, so we filmed it. The video and photos below are ours. Everything else on this page is about Novy: where it comes from, how the extraction works, the ranges, the ducted versus recirculating question, and how one goes into a kitchen. Novy is made in Belgium and distributed in Australia by Andi-Co.
We filmed the first Novy display kitchen going in at the brand's local headquarters. A quick look at the cooktop, the integrated extraction and the rangehood before the doors opened.
Slide through the finished display kitchen at Novy's Australian headquarters. Tap or click any photo to zoom in.
The finished display: cooktop, integrated extraction and rangehood in place
Novy started in 1907 as a bicycle and motorcycle workshop in West Flanders, then moved into kitchen extraction decades later and stayed there. Today it is Belgium's market leader in cooker hoods, employs around 250 people, and still develops and builds its products in Kuurne rather than outsourcing them. More than a century of doing one thing shows up in the detail: the way a hood seats into cabinetry, how the controls feel, how little noise it makes on a low setting.
Because Novy does not chase a full catalogue of ovens, dishwashers and fridges, the ventilation is where all the engineering effort goes. That is the reason a kitchen designer might specify Novy over a matching suite from a single brand.
Most rangehoods pull air straight up through a filter in the centre of the canopy. Novy took a different route. In 1973 it developed peripheral extraction, patented the following year, where the air is drawn in around the edges of the extraction surface rather than through one central point. Spreading the intake over a longer perimeter means the fan can move the same amount of air while spinning slower, and a slower fan is a quieter fan.
In practice that is the thing people notice first on the display: on its lower settings the extractor is genuinely hard to hear over the cooktop itself. It also means the extraction can sit low and flat, either just behind the hob or built into it, instead of a large canopy at head height.
Novy's venting hobs are the part that gets the most attention, because they remove the overhead hood entirely. There are four to choose between, and they differ mainly in how the extraction is presented on the benchtop.
Every Novy can run either way. Which one suits your kitchen usually comes down to whether there is a practical path to an external wall or roof.
On the venting hobs and on paired hob and hood setups, Novy's InTouch system links the two so the extraction responds to what you are actually cooking rather than waiting for you to reach over and adjust a dial.
A venting hob asks more of an installation than a standard cooktop, because the benchtop cut out, the extraction path and the power all have to line up. Here is what the job involves.
We measure the cabinetry and benchtop, check the space under the bench for the extraction unit, work out whether you are ducting outside or recirculating, and confirm the power point is where it needs to be.
The benchtop is cut to Novy's template, usually by your stone fabricator to our marks. We seat and seal the hob, mount the extraction unit, and connect either the ducting or the recirculation filter housing.
Power is connected by an electrician, then we test the extraction through its speeds, pair the InTouch controls, clean up, and walk you through running and maintaining it.
The questions we field most often now that the brand is starting to appear here.
Send us the details and we will come back with what the installation involves for your bench and layout.