hte wins STEP Award 2011
The hte team has won the STEP Award 2011, an award for innovative, high-growth companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. With its innovative high-throughput technology platform, hte offers research services and technologies in the field of industrial catalysis and has now been recognized for its innovative strength and growth-oriented strategy. The STEP Award was presented on 29 November 2011 at the Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt by the initiators Infraserv, Höchst and F.A.Z.-Institut.
The initiators of the STEP Award, Dr. Roland Mohr of Infraserv Höchst and Markus Garn of F.A.Z. Intitute present the hte Team with the prize at the gala at Commerzbank Tower in Frankfurt a.M.: Dr. Dirk Demuth, hte AG; Dr. Roland Mohr, Infraserv Höchst; Dr. Wolfram Sticher hte AG, Markus Garn, F.A.Z. Institut; Jan Hofer, ARD (left to right)
"The STEP Award is confirmation of the innovative work that our team has carried out with our customers and partners in the past twelve years," says Dr. Dirk Demuth, CEO and COO of hte Aktiengesellschaft. "We also see the award as an incentive to further enhance our technology platform."
The hte team has worked together on numerous fundamental developments to create a technology platform for testing catalysts and chemical processes in a high-throughput process. Their approach makes it possible to identify higher performance catalysts 10 to 100 times faster than current standard procedures are able to do. As accelerators of chemical reactions, catalysts help to save energy, obtain more useful products from raw fossil materials and make new energy sources such as hydrogen or fuels from wood chips competitive.
In this year's STEP Award company competition, hte received the main prize of €100,000. The sum comprises a monetary prize of €50,000 and a comprehensive range of services of the same value, consisting of consulting and other services provided by the sponsors and partners of the STEP Award.
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