Heinz Dürr Award presented to employee teams
With the Heinz Dürr Award, the Dürr Group recognizes outstanding achievements by employees in the areas of innovation, customer focus and sustainability. This year, the awards were presented for the first time by Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexandra.
Dürr Group employees associate one piece of advice in particular with Heinz Dürr, who passed away in November: "Stay curious!". The entrepreneurial legend saw curiosity as the driving force behind innovation and thus progress. In December 2001, he created an internal competition, the Heinz Dürr Award, to particularly value innovation. In 2019, it was expanded to include the categories of sustainability and customer experience.
Three teams were honored in the Innovation category this year. One of the prizes went to a team for the development of the EcoProBooth paint booth. The jury was also impressed by employees from the Homag subgroup with a system for the individual printing of edgebanding for furniture and a German-Indian team from the Schenck subsidiary with a software solution for wheel production lines. The Heinz Dürr Award for Customer Experience went to Homag employees for the customer-oriented and ultimately punctual completion of a project that was initially severely delayed. The Sustainability Award was presented for equipping the world's largest factory for the serial production of wooden house elements. This year, Heinz Dürr's daughter Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexandra Dürr took over the patronage of the tradition-steeped award. Together with Dr. Lars Friedrich, Head of the Application Technology Division, she honored the winning teams at the award ceremony. Each winning team received prize money of 7,500 euros.