POUL DUE JENSEN FOUNDATION ACTIVE OWNERSHIP From left: Executive Director Christian Hartvig, Mathias Kielgast Garbus, Jens Milthers, Brian Petersen, Flemming Nørskov Larsen, Erik Eskjær Øbakke, Chairman of the Board Niels Due Jensen, Jan Carøe Aarestrup, Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund, Jan Plougmann, Thomas Blad and Peter Mønster. Photo: Lars Holm Celebrating innovative minds Every year at the Grundfos Prize ceremony, we celebrate one of the cornerstones of Grundfos’ success - it's innovative and passionate employees. The Poul Due Jensen Innovation Award is presented to an employee or a group of employees at Grundfos, who have made a particularly innovative contribution. 2017 Innovation Award winners We asked one of the winners of the first prize, Jan Plougmann, what it means to receive an innovation award? “First, the prize recognises the work which is done outside normal working hours. The jury doesn’t take daily issues and organisational structures into consideration,” says Jan, adding: “We would love to have another go at winning the award. It was a fantastic experience to be present at the ceremony with the other winners, and to experience the run-up to the event, the ceremony itself, and afterwards. Our advice to other Grundfos employees on why they should apply for the innovation award would simply be: Be ambitious and believe in your ideas!” The second prize of EUR 10,000 was awarded to Mathias Kielgast Garbus, Jens Milthers, Erik Eskjær Øbakke, Thomas Bødker, Brian Petersen and Flemming Nørskov Larsen for a project addressing and offering a solution to the challenge of connecting Grundfos products to the internet. The third prize of EUR 5,000 went to Thomas Blad and Peter Mønster for a project that is looking at a new way of controlling the flow in multi-loop floor heating systems. 2017 Innovation Award winner The jury awarded the the first prize of EUR 15,000 to Jan Plougmann, Jan Carøe Aarestrup and Klaus Vestergaard Kragelund for a product platform concept, that offers direct digitalisation, easy on-site configuration, significant complexity reduction, cost efficient production and commissioning while at the same time maintaining, or even exceeding present product performance. 58
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