Awards – Striving for excellence

Dürr's Open House event took place in virtual form for the first time in November 2021. Despite initial skepticism, the international virtual event succeeded in inspiring and captivating viewers and even attracting new groups of participants.

In recognition of this, Dürr, together with the agencies what when why GmbH & Co. KG and UP Designstudio, received the Brand Ex Award in the category "Best Digital Event" #OpenHouse in 2021 at the renowned International Festival for Brand Experience.

Dürr has won the "Award for Innovation” at the 2023 #SURCAR North American Congress in Detroit. Dr. Pavel Svejda, Key Account Manager at Dürr, together with Holger König from Volkswagen AG, received the Innovation Award for their presentation of the EcoSealJet Pro, showing a new process for PVC sealing.

On September 20, 2023, Dürr was honored with an ESG Award for Medium-sized Companies, in recognition of companies that participated in a survey assessing relevant topics both in Brazil and on a global scale, in addition to their internal policies and best practices. This prestigious award ceremony was organized by Automotive Business in conjunction with ABX23, the largest gathering in the automotive and mobility industry. It serves as a testament to Dürr's commitment to issues related to environmental, social, and corporate governance.

Dürr achieves the prize of the ‘overall winner’ of the Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award for its DXQanalyze software products. The multi-award-winning and holistic solution collects available production data and evaluates it in order to develop appropriate actions to optimize production. Using machine learning, the software can deduce unknown correlations and patterns and identify potential faults in advance.

"Winning the Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award not only makes us very proud, but also strengthens us in our vision of a fully digitized paint shop,” says Dr. Jochen Weyrauch, CEO of Dürr Systems AG, pleased with the outstanding performance.

The EcoPaintJet Pro can paint complex car body surfaces without overspray and apply individual design elements without masking, fully automatically and in a resource-saving manner. These features convinced an independent panel of judges to award Dürr the Automotive News PACE Award for its innovative overspray-free application technology solution.

“We are very excited that this technology has been recognized as a game-changing innovation and we look forward to building on our successes in the application technology space with more cutting-edge solutions,” said Alex Weiten, Vice President Application Technology at Dürr in North America.

Dürr was awarded the BESSER LACKIEREN Supplier Award 2023 as overall winner and top supplier for special services in the category exhaust air purification technology.

The award is an acknowledgement of Dürr's efforts to reduce emissions in paint shops through the use of innovative technologies such as regenerative thermal exhaust air purification systems. Dürr was particularly convincing in terms of partnership and knowledge of current and future requirements.

Dürr Mexico has been awarded the Best Supplier Award 2022 in the “Environment, Social and Governance (ESG)” category by CIE Automotive. This recognizes Dürr’s strategic framework for identifying, evaluating, and implementing corporate goals and activities, such as commitment to diversity and inclusion, sustainability initiatives, and workplace culture.

Dürr Mexico was one of the three finalists and received the highest score among more than a thousand suppliers from all business units.

Dürr has successfully participated in the Industry 4.0 Innovation Award (presented by the VDE Verlag GmbH) and has earned the top position with its software products of the DXQanalyze family. The smart software solution collects available data and analyzes these in order to deduce appropriate actions. Thanks to machine learning, the software product is thus able to detect potential faults in advance.

Dürr is playing a key role in driving forward digitization in paint shops and final assembly lines. The DXQ product portfolio is part of the focus of the award, which presented solutions that contribute to the digital transformation in the field of industrial production.

Dürr has won the ”Award for Innovation” at the 2021 #SURCAR North American Congress in Detroit for the new pre-treatment development EcoProWet PT. Mark Murray, Sales Director of Paint and Final Assembly Systems in North America, introduced the system in his presentation “paint shop of the future – volume 2”.

Dürr Systems AG has been honored with the German Innovation Award (Deutscher Innovationspreis 2020) in the category Large Companies for its EcoPaintJet robot painting system. EcoPaintJet is a groundbreaking innovation for the highly selective painting of cars and other products. The advantages of the process also convinced the jury of the German Innovation Award (Deutscher Innovationspreis 2020): 100% of the paint lands on the surface without loss, two-color painting is possible without any problems - faster, more energy-efficient and more resource-saving than before.

Find out more here.

Bietigheim-Bissingen, October 19, 2020 – Dürr’s EcoPaintJet and PPG’s Clean Surface Technology paint have been presented with the “R&D 100 Award” in the USA. The robot-based EcoPaintJet is a groundbreaking innovation for painting cars and other products without overspray and with razor-sharp edges. 100% of the paint lands on the surface making two-color painting easier because the sharp edges eliminate the need for masking. This makes painting faster, more energy-efficient and more resource-efficient than before.

The Korean Minister of Environment and the Korea Environmental Engineers Association KEEA have rewarded Dürr Korea for its contribution to environmental protection and national technological advancement in South Korea. Dürr's projects in the field of heavy industry, such as shipbuilding, were considered for the 2019 award. Air pollution control systems from Dürr have contributed to improve air quality in this industry. The environmental award honored the highly efficient air pollution control systems.

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On March 17^th, 2018, the Annual Geely Supplier Conference took place in San Ya, China, where Dürr was rewarded by Geely for the first time. The German systems manufacturer received the "Capacity Increase Award 2018" for its competent and sustained performance in this nature.

Every year, SAIC-GM honors its suppliers for their excellent services and performances. Therefore, on February 9^th, 2018, the 20th Annual Suppliers Conference of SAIC-GM was held in Yan Tai, China. At this event, Dürr was presented with the "Best Supplier Award" from SAIC-GM as a recognition for its continuous and outstanding performance over the course of multiple projects. Dürr has now been consecutively awarded by SAIC-GM since the 14^th Annual Suppliers Conference.

Together with the Tübingen-based design agency defortec GmbH, Dürr developed a cover for the carrier of the dip coating system RoDip^® E. The new cover is not only more stable than its predecessor, but also shows more elegance. For this reason, RoDip^® E has won the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2018. The selection of Dürr as a winner proves that there is also room for detailed design in industrial engineering.

FCA honored the entire Dürr de México team with a Supplier Recognition Award for its exceptional performance during the launch of the Jeep^® Compass at the Toluca Assembly Plant. A big part of the award was due to Dürr’s building modifications and expansion. The automaker’s paint booths were equipped with the latest Dürr paint and sealing robots, application technology, paint circulation systems, special paint supply systems and a new two-tone process for the recent Jeep^® Compass model. Dürr also delivered the visualization network. With the award, FCA also recognized Dürr for its continuous production support after the start of operations in Toluca in 2017.

The Association of Woodworking & Furnishing Suppliers (AWFS) honored Dürr with the AWFS Visionary New Product Award at the Fair stage in Las Vegas on Friday, July 21^st, 2017. Dürr received the award in the category “Machinery Over $50,000”, sub-category “Product Innovation” for their new ready2spray compact painting robot, designed for the wood, plastics, and metal industries. Dürr’s EcoRP 10 R1100 painting robot system consists of a small six-axis robot equipped with high-end paint application technology. The system is completed and pre-commissioned by Dürr at its manufacturing plant, making it "ready2spray" upon arrival at a customer's site. The technology is available in different configurations, which is tailored to individual customer’s needs.

Dürr has received one of the sought-after Volkswagen Group Awards 2017. The award was presented in the "Global Champion" category for outstanding achievements in the global collaboration with Volkswagen. Ralf W. Dieter, CEO of Dürr AG, accepted the award in Berlin: "We are proud to be one of the most important business partners of the Volkswagen Group. The award recognizes the great dedication of our employees and highlights our expertise in the international project business."

During its first International Awards Ceremony in China SURCAR presented awards for 13 projects from both Automotive OEMs and suppliers. With three awards, Dürr achieves a great success at the ceremony in Shanghai. In the category Environmental Footprint the new atomizer cleaner EcoBell Cleaner D2 received two awards. Also rewarded was the BMW Brilliance Tiexi Paintshop in the category "Start up and Commissioning – Greenfield Project", which was built by Dürr.

Dürr has modernized an almost 20-year-old paint shop for automaker SAIC-GM – formerly known as SGM (Shanghai General Motors) – in record time while also making the facility more environmentally friendly. In just six weeks, large sections of existing paint shop equipment were removed and replaced with state-of-the-art technology.

For Dürr, this order was the largest conversion project undertaken by the company in China to date and was nothing less than a complete success. The customer was so pleased with the work carried out that it presented Dürr with the “Corporation of the Year Award" in 2016 in Shanghai.

In 2016 Groupe Renault named Dürr Systems Spain as the Safest Supplier Company of the year in recognition of Dürr´s outstanding achievements in terms of Health & Safety issues during the implementation of works at Renault plant in 2015, highlighting our exemplary practices and contribution to innovation.   

The Volkswagen Group has selected Dürr as a strategic partner in the field of surface technology for its FAST supplier initiative. The newly created initiative is targeted at selected suppliers of the Volkswagen Group and at intensifying the level of exchange and cooperation with them.

Dürr receives the Award for Technique at the SURCAR 2015, the world’s leading biennial congress on Automotive body finishing. With its R&D project “overspray free application” Dürr convinced the jury at the SURCAR congress in Cannes. The SURCAR Technical Board rewards the best presentations with three different prizes: the Award for Innovation, the Award for Technique and the Jury’s Award. In a joint presentation Porsche Leipzig and Dürr presented the R&D project for the very first time in front of an international audience. Every other year the international congress brings together decision-makers and experts in Automotive body painting from over 25 countries.

Dürr won first place in the “Energy Efficiency” category of the Baden-Württemberg Environmental Technology Award with the further development of our ORC technology. The competition was inspired by the motto “Award-winning technology. Trend-setting products”. The Environmental Technology Award received a total of 117 applications. Half of these were for the “Energy Efficiency” category, for which Dürr entered the Eco+Energy CPS Suntec oven and was shortlisted.

On January 7^th to 9^th, 2013, the "15^th Annual Suppliers’ Conference" and "2012 Suppliers’ Awards Ceremony" was held in Sanya, Hainan. Dürr was presented the award of "Best Supplier" because of its great support to Shanghai General Motors in 2012 – specially of the contribution on SGM DYIII. This 60 JPH project is a short and unbelievable tough job, however, with good team working and knowledge knowhow Dürr managed in finishing the job successfully.

Peugeot Citroën awarded Dürr with the „Industrial Equipment Performance Award“ for the EcoDryScrubber paint booth system on June 19^th, 2013, at a gala in Paris. The innovative system for dry separation of paint overspray is being used at the Peugeot plant in Sochaux. „Peugeot Sochaux takes a holistic view of the reliability of the paint booth. This is what the EcoDryScrubber stands for. It not only offers energy savings but also high availability, ease of use and maintenace, and low operating costs,“ emphasizes Cristophe Gruat, paint department manager at Peugeot.

Eco+Paintshop from Dürr was awarded for its excellent performance in efficiency while keeping the high quality in the paint process. On September 28^th, 2013, Peter Li, Chief Representative of Dürr China (right), accepted the award in Shanghai from the magazine China Automobile & Parts.

Over a period of less than 18 months Dürr has designed, fabricated, installed and commissioned. The combined output capacity is over 1,600,000 bumper sets per year. FATY, a joint venture between FAW (First Automotive Works), China and Tong Yang, Taiwan held it’s “first painted part” celebration, in Foshan, Guandong Province in South China. The ceremony was attended by representatives from FAW VW, SVW, FAW, FATY, Tong Yang, Durr, ABB, BASF and PPG. It was during this ceremony that Durr was awarded the ‘Supplier of the Year 2012’ by FATY Foshan General Manager, Mr Zhang.