These products are 'winnovative'
Cologne, Germany -- The 2016 Eisenwarenmesse -- or, International Hardware Fair -- celebrated innovation in the tool industry by recognizing three winners of the Eisen Innovation Awards.
Judges were looking for innovative product development -- "winnovative and interesting solutions that offer the end consumers a special usage, high functionality and quality." They found them in the following products:
Product: High Speed Disc Alumaster
Maker: Pferd
Description: An alternative to conventional grinding discs
Jury says: "With the High Speed Disc Alumaster, the user doesn't generate any dust when milling aluminium, but instead defined shavings. This offers enormous advantages in terms of health and explosion protection and an extraction system is no longer required either. A totally innovative product."
Product: VDE torque spanner
Maker: Hazet
Description: A smarter torque wrench
Jury says: "The fact that the VDE torque spanner by Hazet can be calibrated is what especially convinced us. Accurate work with accurate tools."
Product: Duopower
Maker: fischer Deutschland
Description: A dowel fastener for solid and perforated building materials.
Jury says: "The fischer Duopower offers an innovative solution for everyday fastening problems: Since the product comprises of soft and hard components it enables things to be fastened in both cavities and to solid materials. Thus, the fischer Duopower covers a wide spectrum of applications
The awards program was a joint effort by the Construction, Home Improvement and Garden Trade Association e.V. (BHB), and the Eisen Innovation Award together with the Central Association of the Hardware Trade e.V. (ZHH).