For us at INTRAVIS, innovation is a matter of course. In order to meet our customers' requirements in the best possible way, the continuous further development of our systems is essential. It is all the more gratifying when this is noticed not only by our customers, but also by independent juries.
INTRAVIS has been recognized as one of the most innovative medium-sized companies in Germany in this year's “Germany's most innovative medium-sized company” innovation prize awarded by the news magazine stern. In cooperation with the German Society for Consumer Studies (DtGV), stern identified and analyzed the 500 most innovative companies from 31 sectors in the German SME sector. INTRAVIS was among the top 10 companies in the “Optics and Sensor Technology” sector.
Our CEO Dr. Gerd Fuhrmann was extremely proud: "I am delighted that we are one of the most innovative companies in Germany. It is a great acknowledgement of our work and our commitment to constantly finding new, creative solutions for our customers. After all, we don't develop our solutions as an end in itself, but always with the aim of offering our customers real added value."
For the study, all patents granted in 2024 that are attributable to German companies with an annual turnover of less than 1 billion euros were evaluated. The analysis is based on a comprehensive search of all patents granted worldwide for German companies. Not only was the pure number of patents taken into account, but they were also evaluated in terms of their relevance - measured by the frequency of citations. These factors were used to create a score using an index formula that reflects the innovative strength of a company. The 500 best companies were then assigned to an industry, classified into a total of 31 industry segments based on their score values and presented within these in the form of rankings.
"For a manufacturing company of our size, I find it very remarkable how many patents we have been able to register in recent years. Of course, we will not rest on our laurels and will continue to develop creative new solutions. On the one hand, these solution ideas come from our product management, which regularly analyzes the requirements of the market and develops new requirements on this basis.
On the other hand, we invest specifically in our own research and development projects in order to drive forward innovations that go beyond current needs. This enables us to offer our customers exclusive, pioneering technologies that no other competitor has on the market to date," adds Gerd Fuhrmann.
We are proud of this award and look forward to continuing to support our customers with progressive and pioneering solutions in the future.
You can find the stern magazine article here.