Inspiring employees for innovation, excellence, and sustainability
For over two decades, Heraeus has honored employees for outstanding ideas and successful projects as part of the Heraeus Awards. This year, too, the commitment to innovation was demonstrated. The award ceremony was live streamed worldwide and celebrated.
As a global technology group, Heraeus is active in many industries. The Operating Companies strive for market leadership in their respective markets and have the goal of outperforming their competitors.
“It is no exaggeration to say that the Heraeus Awards have become an institution that is now an integral part of the company. They honor what drives us forward as the Heraeus Group: customer focus, innovation, excellence and digitalization, sustainable business,”
Dr. Frank Stietz, COO and member of the Heraeus Group Management Board and mentor of the Heraeus Awards.
This is possible thanks to the great people who work at Heraeus and the inspiring corporate culture they create. How they study markets and observe industry developments. How they find creative solutions to challenging problems and continuously optimize processes. How they turn challenges into opportunities.
Heraeus Awards 2025 – The next evolution
The Heraeus Awards have been recognizing precisely this commitment since 2003, honoring products, services, initiatives, projects and teams that drive the Heraeus Group forward. At the same time, the format provides a platform where people can come together, exchange knowledge, inspire each other and create synergies.
Heraeus employees and teams from 8 countries submitted more than 60 projects for the Heraeus Awards 2025. The presentation of the awards was celebrated in a worldwide broadcast via live stream. Many employees followed the exciting presentations of the finalists and had the opportunity to vote for their favorite alongside a jury of experts.
The five award categories at a glance
Innovation Award
Turning ideas into reality: This is where everything revolves around product innovations that are in the early stage or scale-up phase of their lifecycle. The products are of crucial importance for the future success of Heraeus and have a large market potential that offers promising growth opportunities.
Excellence & Digitalization
Optimize the existing: This category is looking for projects that are characterized by operational excellence, i.e. projects that aim to make processes more efficient, faster or more cost-effective – including through the integration of digital technologies.
Customer Focus Award
Recognizing needs: Projects that have significantly increased sales are in demand here – either through analysis and adaptation to changing market requirements or through collaborative product development together with customers. Projects in this category closely align their activities with customer needs, strengthen market leadership or a strong market position, and result in tangible economic benefits for Heraeus.
People & Culture
Fostering culture: Projects or initiatives in this category are characterized by holistic concepts for promoting a high-performing and inclusive corporate culture. We are looking for teams or individuals who have achieved outstanding results in the areas of environment, health and safety (EHS) or leadership, or who have developed excellent initiatives in the area of DEI.
Sustainability Award
Creating value: With the Sustainability Award, Heraeus honors projects, business models and products, but also strategic initiatives that create and maximize environmental and economic value for customers, partner companies and also for Heraeus itself.
