Memmert Generation 2012 receives iF design award

The Memmert Generation 2012 was awarded the iF product design award 2013 in the category of medicine/health care by a jury of 49 international design experts.

Distinctive, unique design, intuitive and easy to operate, vibration-free opening and closing of the appliances and future oriented communication features; these were the guidelines the Memmert management gave the R&D department as the most crucial ones for the development of the new generation of appliances. A groundbreaking design concept was created by the time of the market launch in 2012 in cooperation with Munich design agency OXXID. This concept now received the iF product design award 2013 and has therefore found acceptance beyond the laboratory appliance market.

Managing director Christiane Riefler-Karpa was delighted about the award. “The iF design award proves that our strategy of uncompromising quality and customer orientation was right. With modern features such as intuitive operation of the touch screen and a clear design, the Generation 2012 of appliances sets a standard for the entire market for heating ovens, incubators and climate chambers. At the same time, the unmistakeable brand character of the appliances that are consistently manufactured using high quality stainless steel has successfully been transferred into the future.”
Six decades of award winning design

Some 2,000 guests celebrated the award winners in the night of February 22, 2013 at BMW Welt in Munich. All 981 awarded products will be shown at the CeBIT in Hanover March 5 to 9, 2013 and at the iF design exhibition at HafenCity in Hamburg from July 2013. In the year of 1954, the iF International Forum Design held the annual design competition “iF award” for the first time. Today, almost 60 years later, some 5,000 companies, design and advertising agencies apply every year to win one of the desired awards in the categories product design, communication design and packaging design. The organisation sees its main task in raising the public awareness of design and improving the relations between design and the economy.