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AWARDS
Thank you, dear customers!
There is probably no other medium-sized company in Germany that has been honoured as often as PARAVAN. But no other company has such wonderful customers. For they have made us what we are; passionate Swabian innovators with social commitment and great success. Since the company was established in 1998, we have been presented every year with important awards that are always both an honour and commitment at the same time. Incidentally, the prize money always flows back directly into research and development. Here is a selection from recent years.
THE HIGHLIGHT IN 2011 – THE PARAVAN SPACE DRIVE SYSTEM - A MASTERPIECE WINS THE “INNOVATION AWARD OF GERMAN INDUSTRY, THE FIRST INNOVATION AWARD IN THE WORLD”
- In the festive atmosphere of Frankfurt Congress Centre PARAVAN Managing Director Roland Arnold was presented with the Innovation Prize of German Industry by the Federal Minister of Research and Education, Annette Schavan PhD. The compère was Cherno Jobatey, the well-known and very popular radio and TV presenter.
- Nobel Prize winner, Professor Klaus von Klitzing and the first West European ASTRONAUT in space, Ulf Merbold PhD, congratulated Roland Arnold and Andreas Frisch from PARAVAN: in their capacity as members of the jury they checked the SPACE DRIVE thoroughly and with enthusiasm, making it the winner by unanimous vote.
PARAVAN OWNER, ROLAND ARNOLD, IS CHOSEN AS GERMANY’S “MOST ENCOURAGING COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY”
Roland Arnold won the title of the “Most encouraging company in the country at a festive Gala with over 350 guests from politics, industry and the media in Tipi am Kanzleramt (a tipi by the Federal Chancellery).
The award reflects the creative strength and spirit of innovation with which Roland Arnold gives people with disabilities new courage to become mobile.
Exemplary entrepreneurs have often had to fight hard for their success. This is also extremely true of Roland Arnold. He started out right at the bottom. In a small garage workshop on his parents’ farm the ambitious car mechanic developed his first innovations with the objective of providing mobility for disabled persons. Initially mocked a little, at 44 he is now world market leader for individually adapted vehicles for the disabled. His Paravan Mobility Park encompasses a development and patent department, production halls, and an advisory centre for customers with handicaps. Tailor-made high-tech vehicles are created out of standard models over an area of 50,000 square metres. Thanks to sophisticated electronics, mechanics and digital technology, even persons with severe disabilities are able to drive cars for themselves. The products made by the Swabian boffs are in demand worldwide, even in New Caledonia.
PARAVAN BOSS ROLAND ARNOLD RECEIVES ENTERPRISE MEDAL IN GOLD
- Minister of Economic Affairs, Ernst Pfister presents Roland Arnold with the coveted Enterprise Medal with the certificate of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
- The PARAVAN team accompanying Roland Arnold in the New Palace in Stuttgart after the award was presented: from left to right: Ute Porsch, Oliver Raach – certified court expert under public law - Roland Arnold, Martina Arnold, member of the Baden-Württemberg Regional Parliament, Karl-Wilhelm Röhm, Anne Arnold, mayor Reinhold Teufel, Gabriele Frisch and Managing Director and Sales Manager Andreas Frisch celebrating this extremely high distinction together with company founder and proprietor, Roland Arnold.
At the New Palace in Stuttgart Roland Arnold received the highest distinction for entrepreneurs from Ernst Pfister, Minister of Economic Affairs in Baden-Württemberg. Roland Arnold’s endeavours for the wellbeing of disabled people all over the world impressed the high-calibre jury which carried out the test procedure at the suggestion and based on the report of the certified court expert under public law, Oliver Raach.
The "German Foreign Trade Award 2009" goes to PARAVAN for making a new quality of life reality for wheelchair users and persons with walking disabilities all over the world
- PARAVAN Managing Director Roland Arnold and his wife Martina receive the extremely reputable and prestigious GERMAN FOREIGN TRADE AWARD 2009 in the festive atmosphere of Bremen’s guildhall.
- The guildhall in Bremen became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004. Where normally only prominent politicians and industrial magnates from all over the world are granted admittance, the PARAVAN Mobility Park was given this honour under the patronage of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Technology.
Following the Bavarian State Prize handed over by the Bavarian Minister for Economic Affairs, Emilia Müller at the beginning of the year and the Hightech Award CyberOne from the Minister for Research and Science, Professor Frankenberg, PARAVAN managing director, Roland Arnold and his innovation team were awarded the 2008 Dr. Rudolf Eberle Prize, the Innovation Award of the State of Baden Württemberg.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Baden-Württemberg's minister-president Günter Oettinger congratulate Roland Arnold and his innovative PARAVAN team upon winning the "German Skilled Crafts Prize", the highest national award available to a crafts company, for their excellent performance in all company divisions.
Martina and Roland Arnold with former minister-president Lothar Späth at the awarding of the "TOP 100 in German industry" and with Markus Seiz from Ernst & Young, the auditing and consultancy company, at the awarding of the "Entrepreneur of the Year" prize.
VR-Innovationspreis - Die begehrteste Auszeichnung auf Landesebene.
VR Innovation prize - the most coveted award at national level.
Innovative technologies, high product quality and customer-oriented reasoning in the field of vehicle conversions for the disabled, for self-drivers and for wheelchair users and for families with disabled children by PARAVAN® convinced the jury of experts headed by minister of state Dr Christoph Palmer and president of the GENO association Erwin Kuhn. In his laudatory speech, minister of state Dr Christoph Palmer honoured Roland Arnold with the words, "An example for companies in Ländle".
Following extensive driving tests and having tested the SPACE DRIVE collection, former minister-president Erwin Teufel didn't miss the opportunity to personally ring-in the new era of Drive-by-wire technology.
Former minister-president Erwin Teufel was visibly impressed by the pursuit of innovation shown by the hard-working Swabians, and opened the PARAVAN visitors' book with his entry. A big thank-you for this great honour.
The honorary president of the Chamber of Handicrafts in Reutlingen, Günther Hecht, and the chairman of the board of the district savings bank in Reutlingen Eugen Schäufele present Martina Arnold with the fifth innovation award in Baden-Württemberg for outstanding innovative performance.
District administrator Thomas Reumann MP is very impressed by the many new technical achievements for regaining mobility. "For this, I extend my respect and appreciation to you and your staff", was the gist of the letter of thanks. "I wish you, your wife and your entire staff further good ideas in the interest of our disabled fellow men".
An excerpt from our extensive gallery of certificates
The download section contains a list of PARAVAN awards which lastingly and impressively documents the company's continuity from 1997 through to the present day, and the innovation of PARAVAN quality in all fields.
These awards reinforce our efforts to keep on improving, to get even better with regard to mobility throughout the world.
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