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  • The Ypsomed Innovation Award 2025 was presented

    The Ypsomed Innovation Award 2025 was presented

    Yuon Control AG from Oberburg and based in Technopark Zurich has been awarded first place in the Ypsomed Innovation Prize 2025, which is endowed with 50,000 Swiss francs, Ypsomed announced in a press release. The spin-off from Bern University of Applied Sciences develops technologies for building automation and energy management. Yuon Control’s systems enable data from various sources to be used to analyse and optimise energy flows and building functions.

    Two other young companies were each honoured with a second prize of 25,000 Swiss francs. One of these is Santella. The start-up project at the University of Bern aims to reduce the use of antibiotics in animal husbandry. As a first step, Santella is developing vaccines for the poultry industry.

    The other second prize went to Xemperia from Bulle FR. The spin-off from the University of Fribourg aims to improve the early detection and monitoring of cancer. To this end, Xemperia is developing technologies that combine molecular diagnostics with data analysis and pattern recognition based on artificial intelligence.

    A total of 34 projects competed for the innovation prize. “We are delighted to be able to spotlight three outstanding projects again this year,” said Simon Michel, President of the Ypsomed Innovation Fund, in the press release from his speech at the award ceremony. They have “the potential to have a lasting impact on our economy and society – provided they find their way into practical application”. The Ypsomed Innovation Award aims to make a contribution to this.

  • Emost AG erhält den Innovationspreis Zurzibiet

    Emost AG erhält den Innovationspreis Zurzibiet

    Das Wirtschaftsforum Zurzibiet (WFZ) mit Sitz in Klingnau hat die Dietiker emost AG mit dem diesjährigen Innovationspreis Zurzibiet ausgezeichnet. Laut einer Medienmitteilung wurde der Preis für den mobilen Batteriespeicher Butler s zugesprochen. Der umweltfreundliche Stromgenerator ohne CO2-Ausstoss ist als Ersatz für die herkömmlichen Dieselgeneratoren an Baustellen entwickelt worden. Die Technologie namens emost (electric mobile storage/Deutsch: elektrischer mobiler Speicher) kann aber auch bei Veranstaltungen oder in Notfällen eingesetzt werden.

    Entwickelt wurde das fahrbare Gerät, für dessen Einsatz es keiner besonderen Genehmigung bedarf, gemeinsam mit einem Team des Energieversorgers Axpo in Baden AG. Entwicklungsort war Döttingen AG im Zurzibiet. Der Preis wurde am 25. April im Kulturhaus Rain in Kleindöttingen AG dem Siegerprojekt übergeben. Der Preis wird alle zwei Jahre vergeben.

    Zu dem prämierten Gerät heisst es auf der Internetseite des Herstellers, der emost Butler s sei für Einsatz bei Bauunternehmen im Tief- und Strassenbau sowie Gartenbau konzipiert. Ebenso für die Verwendung bei Blaulichtorganisationen, im Transportsektor, bei Ladestationen für E-Autos, bei Festivals, Messen, Food-Trucks und zur unterbrechungsfreien Notstromversorgung. Das Gerät sei wirtschaftlicher als Dieselgeneratoren. Da es keine Abgase gebe, sei es auch für geschlossene Räume geeignet. Und der Butler s sei leise und ermögliche so den Einsatz auf Nachtbaustellen.

  • TTS Inova wins Schaffhauser innovation award

    TTS Inova wins Schaffhauser innovation award

    Every two years the Industry and Business Association Schaffhausen ( IVS ) and the ITS Industry and Techno Center Schaffhausen host the IVS Innovation Prize of the Schaffhauser Platzbanken . It is awarded to companies from the Schaffhausen economic area for developing and successfully placing an innovative product on the market. Criterion for awarding the prize are, among other things, the profitability and the economic potential of the innovation.

    This year 23 companies competed for the award. Among them, TTS Inova from Thayngen SH won the prize and a prize money of 10,000 francs, the IVS informed in a message. The family company, which specializes in trimmings and technical textiles, was awarded for an elastic geothermal probe. “Our product is food-compliant, so it can also be used in areas where you would otherwise not be able to install a geothermal heat pump,” owner Simon Bernath is quoted in the press release.

    The young company Imnoo from Buchberg SH came second with its artificial intelligence-based application for milled and turned parts. “Calculating technical parts is time-consuming and requires a great deal of specialist knowledge, which usually only a few people in the SME – and not infrequently only the managing director himself – has”, explains Inmo co-founder Jonas Albergatti.

    Savvy Telematic Systems AG took third place with its sensor for rail transport wagons. In the last competition in 2019, the company from the canton capital won first prize for a sensor for automatic flat spot detection in rail transport. The Tanne Schaffhausen restaurant received a special award for its ethical and ecological business model.

  • The innovation award is intended to promote the Unterland location

    The innovation award is intended to promote the Unterland location

    SMEs based in the Zürcher Unterland can apply for an innovation award for the first time. The official announcement takes place in summer. This award is being launched by the new business and trade council of the Zürcher Unterland location association. It is endowed with 5000 francs. It is donated by the Zürcher Kantonalbank .

    According to a press release, the ZKB Innovation Prize Zürcher Unterland will be awarded for the first time on October 1st at the new Zurich North business symposium in Glattfelden ZH. Both the innovation award and the business symposium are viewed by the Zurich Unterland Economic and Commercial Council, which was founded last autumn, as its first two “flagship events”.

    According to Co-Managing Director Darius Daftarian, the Zürcher Unterland is still insufficiently perceived as a business location in a cantonal comparison. What is missing is “a regional and supra-regional awareness of the strength of the location”.

    This is one of the reasons why the new economic and trade council wants to promote knowledge transfer for SMEs. To this end, existing economic and trade networks would have to be merged. "When different people with different backgrounds meet, everyone can benefit," said Michael Ricklin, President of the Dielsdorf ZH district trade association, quoted in the press release.

  • Window manufacturer 4B wins innovation award

    Window manufacturer 4B wins innovation award

    4B AG , based in Hochdorf, is one of the winners of the Innovation Award 2020/21, which was presented for the first time by the Swiss Institute for Quality Tests ( SIQT ). The award is based on the number of patents held by Swiss companies between 2017 and 2019. The jury took into account data from both the Swiss Patent Office and those from foreign patent offices. The winners of the prize are companies or research institutions that “have an above-average score” in their segment or in a CPC class (Cooperative Patent Classification), explains the SIQT in a press release.

    4B AG is continuously developing new products and services. For this purpose, the window manufacturer operates its own innovation department with product management, development and a test laboratory. One of the company’s developments is a threshold-free balcony door. However, 4B also researches the topic of intelligent windows, for example. “Windows are currently becoming more and more intelligent and will be able to carry out increasingly smart functions in the future,” the company explains in a press release . Intelligent windows should, for example, increase energy efficiency and simplify the handling and maintenance of windows.

    4B is owned by the Bachmann family and was created in 1896 from the joinery of the same name. The company employs more than 660 people and most recently achieved annual sales of around 170 million francs.