Innovation Award EuroTier: Winners 2024_

EuroTier 2024: November 12 to 15, 2024 in Hanover, Germany - Guiding theme: “We innovate animal farming” – More than 2,100 exhibitors from 52 countries – The DLG Innovation Commission awards 4 gold and 21 silver medals

The DLG (German Agricultural Society) has announced the winners of the EuroTier 2024 Innovation Award. The leading innovation award in the international livestock industry, including poultry, recognizes products with a function that has changed significantly, enabling a new process, or has significantly improved an existing process. All exhibiting companies at EuroTier have been eligible to enter their innovations for the EuroTier Innovation Award. This year, 255 innovations were submitted, and, following evaluation, 214 fulfilled the criteria to be included on the EuroTier innovation list. The DLG Innovations Commission awarded 4 gold medals and 21 silver medals.

 The “Innovation Award EuroTier” in gold is awarded to a product with a new concept that offers a function that has changed significantly, enabling either a new process or significantly improving an existing process. The following constitutes evaluation criteria for the award of a gold medal:

• Significance to practice
• Animal welfare
• Advantages for farm and labor management,
• Improvement to the environment and energy supply
• Effects on workload and occupational safety.

A silver “Innovation Award EuroTier” is awarded to an innovation in which an existing product has been further developed in such a way that a significant improvement in function and process can be expected. However, the product does not fully meet the criteria for the “Innovation Award EuroTier” in gold. Key evaluation criteria for a silver medal are:

• Economic significance in practice
• Advantages in work performance and work quality
• Improvement in functional safety
• Positive effects on animal welfare,
• Effects on environment and energy consumption.