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May 24, 2024
Heinz Dürr Award for outstanding commitment
The employees of the Dürr Group work with great enthusiasm every day on innovative, customer-oriented, and sustainable solutions. Each year, the Dürr Group presents the Heinz Dürr Award in recognition of particularly impressive achievements by its employees. This year, Heinz Dürr's daughter, Prof. Dr. Dr. Alexandra Dürr, took over the patronage of the traditional award. She succeeds her father, who passed away in November 2023.
Sustainability category
SUSTAINABLE HOUSING OFF THE PRODUCTION LINE
Norbert Ketterer had a vision: He wanted to build the world’s largest factory in which sustainable housing would literally roll off the production line. In order to make his vision a reality, a lot of tinkering and tweaking was done at the Group subsidiary WEINMANN. But numerous employees from other areas of the Dürr Group also pitched in to realize the largest order in WEINMANN’s company history. Because, as the saying goes, team work makes the dream work!
Customer Experience category
RACE AGAINST TIME
Delays, communication problems, supply chain bottlenecks: The HOMAG project for kitchen manufacturer Bauformat did not get off to a good start. However, the winning Customer Experience team did everything in their power to make up for the lost time and to satisfy the customer.
Innovation category
AHEAD OF THE COMPETITION
Typically, car bodies are painted on a line. But Dürr likes to overthink the typical. In order to maintain the pole position in the market, this winning team brings pit stops and pit lanes into the paint shop.
LET’S SPICE UP THE PROCESS!
The goal of this winning team from the Group subsidiary Schenck was to make it easier to set up new wheel-tire combinations. Their recipe for success: Take developer know-how, a wheel production line, lots of setting parameters, and a dash of AI – in the right amounts, of course. Watch the video for even more non-culinary recipes.
READY TO PRINT
Patterns, colors, logos, even wood grains – all at the touch of a button! This HOMAG employees have developed “Edge Printing” to enable customers to design their own individual edge bands for furniture. Here is a look at the challenges of digital printing and how the winning team overcame them.
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74321 Bietigheim-Bissingen
Germany