Business Award recognises Outstanding Achievement

German laboratory instrument manufacturer KNAUER Wissenschaftliche Geräte GmbH, has been honoured to receive the VORSPRUNG Business Award for the Berlin region during a ceremony at the city's Federal Chancellery on May 9.

Patron Carsten Schneider, Minister of State and Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany presented the Award, an accolade of the East German Business Forum OWF, to entrepreneur and Managing Director Alexandra Knauer and Managing Director Carsten Losch.

"We are very pleased to receive this recognition and are honoured to be seen as a role model and a contributor to the transformation of the economy. At KNAUER, we are committed to pursuing new opportunities and operating sustainably. It is great that we have been able to network with the outstanding companies also honoured today," Mr Losch said at the ceremony.

The Award winners, selected for their high level of innovation, healthy growth and as being exemplary for the sustainable transformation of the economy, were chosen by an independent jury of experts headed by Matthias Platzeck, former Minister President of the state of Brandenburg.

The East German Business Forum (OWF), is a project of the initiative Germany - Land of Ideas. It offers an important platform for all topics relating to the region as a business sector, aiming to highlight the opportunities and challenges that exist to connect players from business, politics and science, as well as develop approaches to solutions for the structural change and transformation processes that are shaping the future landscape.

Based in Berlin-Zehlendorf, KNAUER has a 60-year tradition in building scientific instrumentation for the life science, pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical, environmental and food industries. As a leading German supplier of liquid chromatography solutions the company proved agile and adept in development of a novel mixing process for mRNA vaccines at record speed, assisting in the production of billions of Corona vaccine doses.

Company owner Alexandra Knauer manages the family business together with Carsten Losch. Both are committed to sustainable and responsible corporate governance with a focus on the users, the 190 employees and society.

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