Left to right: Award-winner Eugen Hehl (centre) with Helmut Bayer, Managing Director of the TQU GROUP, Control Project Manager Gitta Schlaak and Bettina Schall, Managing Director of P. E. Schall GmbH & Co. KG as well as speaker Prof. Dr. Heinz Trasch, Head of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Science, Technology & Engineering.
Eugen Hehl, Senior Partner at Arburg, received the Baden-Württemberg Competence Prize for Innovation and Quality on Tuesday, May 15th 2015.
This prestigious award was presented during the press conference on the inauguration of the international ‘Control’ trade fair for quality assurance at the Neue Messe Stuttgart exhibition centre.
The award was the second Hehl has received of late for his outstanding lifetime achievements. In recent months, the plastics industry forerunner was inducted into the SPI Plastics Hall of Fame for his global activities.
The annual award stands under the patronage of the Steinbeis foundation for business promotion and was bestowed for the eighth time in cooperation with the Südwestmetall Federation of Employers, the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Association of Industry (LVI) and the Association of the Chemical Industry (VCI). The innovation prize is organised and managed by the Ulm-based TQU GROUP business consultancy and Germany’s largest trade fair organiser PE Schall.
Prize for the most innovative, leading entrepreneurs
The speaker, Prof Dr Heinz Trasch, Head of the Steinbeis Transfer Centre for Science, Technology & Engineering, from the published panel of judges’ assessment said: "Mr Eugen Hehl has been awarded the personal Competence Prize for his entrepreneurial vision, innovation, social commitment and sustainability."
Innovation, Trasch went on to state, is the lifeblood of dynamic economies. He therefore expressed particular delight in presenting the innovation prize to one of the most innovative and leading entrepreneurs in the South-West of Germany on behalf of the panel of judges.
Since 2008, the Baden-Württemberg Competence Prize for Innovation and Quality has honoured companies and individuals who have made significant contributions to the development of Baden-Württemberg’s global competitiveness through outstanding competence in innovation and quality standards.
Multiple achievement awards
In November 2000, the Federal Republic of Germany honoured Eugen Hehl with the Order of Merit. Further awards include the Baden-Württemberg medal for trade in 1990, honorary citizenship of the community of Lossburg in 1997, as well as the golden master craftsman certificate in 2005. The American Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) also presented Eugen and Karl Hehl its Business Management Award for their joint life's work.
