Heinz Dürr Award 2025 presented to six teams of employees

The Heinz Dürr Award, an internal award for particularly innovative, customer-oriented or sustainable contributions, was presented to the speakers of the winning teams by Heide and Karoline Dürr. Three teams were honored in the Innovation category. One team received the prize for the development of the new EcoBell4 generation of paint atomizers. The jury was also impressed by a team from Dürr Assembly Products with a test bench for the automotive industry which, in addition to conventional vehicle functions, can also test the entire sensor environment and thus driver assistance systems for the first time. The third prize in this category went to an international Schenck team for the development of a modernization package for balancing systems in which rotors are balanced horizontally.

Unlike last year, two teams were honored in the Customer Experience category this year. Employees from Korea received the award for the planning and construction of one of the world's largest exhaust air purification systems in the automotive industry. The second prize went to an international project team that planned the world's most modern paint shop to date for a new electric vehicle manufacturer and won the customer contract. The sustainability prize was awarded for the development of the EcoQPower concept, which enables optimum networking of components and energy flows in paint shops to save energy. The Dürr founding family, which holds almost 30% of the shares in Dürr AG, was also represented at the award ceremony. Karoline Dürr, daughter of the prize initiator Heinz Dürr, honored the winning teams together with her mother Heide Dürr and Dr. Lars Friedrich, Head of the Automotive Division. Each winning team received prize money of 7,500 euros.