At the 27th edition of the TOP 100 innovation competition, Ewald Dörken has been honoured in the category "Innovative processes and organisation". This is the seventh time the company has been among the top innovators.
Since 1993, TOP 100 awards medium-sized German companies for special innovative strength and above-average innovation success and for the seventh time, Ewald Dörken is among the awarded companies.
"Innovations come about at our company without external management consultants," reports CEO Thorsten Koch. "They arise from a profound knowledge of the respective technical problems and the requirements of the market.
The company was founded by Dr Carl Dörken in 1892, when he recognised the opportunities offered by Chinese wood oil and developed a process for boiling wood oil. The result was a varnish containing wood oil and the product "Eburit" became the leading material for painters for a long time.
Today Dörken employs around 1,000 people and focuses on research and development in the field of sustainable products and technologies for paints and building coatings, pigment pastes, high-performance corrosion protection and industrial coatings.
Recently, the company developed a room-temperature-curing corrosion protection primer that cures without the use of oven technology and is technologically superior to conventional primers thanks to its cathodic corrosion protection concept. Furthermore, with LUCITE Multi Resist, a special paint has been developed that is resistant to germs and bacteria such as MRSA, to bare viruses and to mould.
Dörken has also recently announced an expansion project of its production site.
"We organize such extraordinary changes ourselves. We have proven that we can do this in the field of construction chemistry," says Thorsten Koch.