Eight finalists have made it to the final round of the 25th Innovation and Growth Award of the State of Hesse. They are now competing for the title of “Hessen Champion 2024” in the three categories “World Market Leader”, “Job Engine” and “Innovation”. They will be announced on October 29 as part of the 32nd Hessian Entrepreneur Day (HUT) in Wiesbaden.

ITK is one of the three finalists in the Innovation category:

ITK stands for high-precision positioning systems and assemblies for one- to three-dimensional movements. The SensePrecisioner product family impressed the jury. The products offer maximum precision and help to build wafer chips more reliably, develop vaccines faster, make sensors more accurate and accelerate the energy transition.

Tradias GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, and Biowert Industrie GmbH, Brensbach, also made it to the final round “The eight finalists are representative of our Hessian companies and their entrepreneurial successes in the final of the Innovation and Growth Award of the State of Hesse. Just recently on my summer tour, it was impressive to see how broadly Hesse’s economy is positioned and the intensity with which work, research and development is carried out in the companies,” explains Economics Minister Kaweh Mansoori. “The 25th edition of the ‘Hessen Champions’ gives companies the opportunity to present themselves and their work to a wider public. Three out of eight exemplary companies will prevail. I am keeping my fingers crossed and am looking forward to an exciting competition.”