Over 80 awards in 32 years and more to come

At Linde, we are passionate about the success of our customers. For over 100 years, we have been delivering intralogistics solutions that give you exactly what you need for your business. Because your success is our success!

That’s why our brand, our innovations, our design and our communication have won countless awards. We are particularly proud of these awards because they are proof that our commitment to performance, safety and ergonomics is paying off.

Readers of the trade journal materialfluss voted for the materialfluss PRODUCT OF THE YEAR for the first time in 2020. Since then, publishing house WEKA Business Medien GmbH has awarded prizes in 14 categories for outstanding products and projects that have inspired intralogistics customers during the previous year. In only the second year, we were able to take first place with two submissions.

Together with WirtschaftsWoche, DEKRA recognises outstanding concepts, initiatives or processes in the fields of “safety at work”, “safety on the road” and “safety at home”. The award focuses on best practice in these categories. In 2021, we scooped the award in the “safety at work” category with the “interactive warning vest – smart PPE for the protection of persons in internal traffic”.

In the online vote, readers of the trade magazine LOGISTRA vote on the most innovative ideas for more efficient logistics. Every two years, 24 candidates selected by the editorial team compete against each other in eight categories. In addition to innovation, the most important criterion is practical viability – all candidates should be available on the market already or in the foreseeable future. The selection is characterised by the wide range of ideas presented. It is all the more impressive that three awards for forklift trucks from Linde Material Handling already adorn our trophy cabinet. These include the award for our innovative fuel cell technology.

The Red Dot Design Award has been presented for outstanding product design since 1955 and is considered to be one of the most prestigious design prizes of them all. Every year, the panel awards prizes for the most attractive, functional and innovative products from a wide range of industries. We are also regularly awarded the coveted seal of quality for our trucks in the “product design” category. Most recently, we received the Red Dot in 2015 for our P60 - P80/W08 tractor. The Red Dot panel highly commended the tractor in its design verdict, commenting that “this tractor scores highly with its dynamic design and excellent ergonomics, setting standards in its vehicle category.”

The Industrie Forum Design Award for outstanding achievements in the field of design has been presented annually since 1954. The current patron is the iF Industrie Forum Design association, which founded the company iF International Forum Design GmbH to present the award in 2001. Time and time again, Linde trucks have come out on top in the “product design” category, mainly scoring points for factors such as attractiveness, safety, ergonomics and innovation. In their assessment, the panel regularly highlighted the fact that user-friendliness and high performance go hand-in-hand in our vehicles.

The BoB has been awarded for outstanding work in B2B communication since 1997 and is believed to be the most prestigious creative and concept competition in the industry. Since 2017, the award has been presented under the umbrella of the German Marketing Association. Year after year, the most successful communication concepts and measures from Germany, Austria and Switzerland are acknowledged. Over the years, we have already been awarded the BoB several times, for example for our StaplerCup, which is now held worldwide and for our world record-holding kart, the Linde E1. We received another award for our Magic Lifter, which we still use today to showcase the efficiency of our Dynamic Mast Control (DMC) assistance system.

This award has been presented by the German Public Relations Association (DPRG) since 1970 and is one of the most important awards for communications professionals throughout the German-speaking world. The competition is considered a cross-industry yardstick for the innovative strength of concepts and campaigns in the field of strategic communication. All award winners go through a multi-stage process where their work is judged by a high-ranking panel of communications professionals and academics. In 2010, we received this prestigious award for the first time for hosting our StaplerCup. Another award followed in 2013, this time for our Linde E1 electric cart, which we able to use to demonstrate the performance of our electric forklift trucks even to a non-specialist audience.

The ECON Awards have been held since 2007. The competition, organised by the Econ publishing house and the Handelsblatt Group, annually recognises candidates from German-speaking countries for outstanding corporate communication. A panel of proven communication specialists analyses and judges all submissions and allocates the awards. In 2011, the panel of experts awarded us the Special Award in the “PR activities” category for our StaplerCup. Their reason for this was, “since 2005, Linde’s terrific PR campaign centred on a forklift truck operators’ competition has really impressed us. The company’s strengths are established in an extraordinarily sympathetic and intimate way”. Just one year later, we received the award again, this time for our Linde E1 electric cart.