WORLD MARKET LEADER INNOVATION DAY 2020 WITH ULM COOLING SPECIALISTS

WORLD MARKET LEADER INNOVATION DAY 2020 WITH ULM COOLING SPECIALISTS

 

pervormance international GmbH, a globally successful specialist for cooling textiles, presented itself as the “global market leader of tomorrow” at Innovation Day 2020 in Erlangen. Selected among only five companies from Germany, pervormance’s managing directors Gabriele Renner and Sabine Stein were able to illustrate how COOLINE SX3 technology can be used for cooling in various areas in a climate-neutral manner and without energy consumption in order to solve the heat consequences of climate change in an environmentally friendly way.

Every year, the summit meeting of world market leaders is one of the highlights of German business life. This platform for leading SMEs, which was co-initiated by Walter Döring, former Minister of Economic Affairs of Baden-Württemberg and owner of the Academy of German World Market Leaders, had invited decision-makers from SMEs to the “World Market Leader Innovation Day” in the business location of Erlangen for the first time together with WirtschaftsWoche and Handelsblatt.

The innovative managing directors from Ulm had prominent listeners at their presentation, such as Dr. Roland Busch, Chairman of the Board and designated CEO of Siemens AG, Uwe Wagner, Member of the Board at Schaeffler or Prof. Dr. Peter Wasserscheid from the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. “The invitation to the Innovation Day has once again shown that we are on the right track with our globally sought-after cooling textiles, innovative technology and with sustainable production,” said Gabriele Renner, Managing Director of pervormance international, pleased about the invitation to the Innovation Day. 

 

PERVORMANCE IS COMMITTED TO A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ECONOMY

PERVORMANCE IS COMMITTED TO A SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL ECONOMY

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The UN Global Compact is one of the world’s largest and most important initiatives for responsible corporate governance. Its vision is an inclusive and sustainable global economy based on its 10 universal principles.

The German UN Global Compact Network supports companies and organizations in aligning their strategies and activities with sustainability goals and the vision of the UN Global Compact. pervormance has been a member of the initiative since 2013 and stands for responsible and sustainable corporate development. Read more in the new UN Global Compact Yearbook.

You can find the UN Global Compact Company Report 2021 of pervormance international GmbH HERE.

PERVORMANCE INTERNATIONAL – PARTNER IN CLIMATE PROTECTION

PERVORMANCE INTERNATIONAL – PARTNER IN CLIMATE PROTECTION

 

As extremely high temperatures become more common as a result of climate change, the dangers to health increase significantly. In 2019 alone, heat was responsible for 356,000 deaths globally (see study in the Lancet journal). Heat also means up to 12 percent loss of productivity in businesses.
That’s why pervormance has revolutionized air-conditioning technology: with cooling functional textiles that cool the body using patented 3D technology with smart fibers – with a cooling capacity of up to 660 watts effectively and climate-neutral.

Climate neutral means: All CO2 emissions of our company and the entire product range are recorded and offset via a recognized climate protection project.

You can find out more about this in our new brochure “pervormance -Partner in climate protection”.

RECEPTION AT PRINCE ALBERT IN MONACO: PERVOMANCE PROMOTES WORLDWIDE TREE PLANTING CAMPAIGN

RECEPTION AT PRINCE ALBERT IN MONACO: PERVOMANCE PROMOTES WORLDWIDE TREE PLANTING CAMPAIGN

 

Gabriele Renner and Sabine Stein were received in Monaco by Prince Albert and “Plant for the Planet” founder Felix Finkbeiner. The Ulm-based entrepreneurs, whose E.COOLINE functional cooling textiles are in demand worldwide by companies such as Daimler and Thyssen Krupp for occupational health and safety, in the health sector and by top international athletes, support the environmental organization Plant-for-the-Planet, whose patron is Prince Albert II. The event was also attended by Professor Franz Josef Radermacher from Ulm, representing the Club of Rome, “Der Bergdoktor” actor Hans Sigl and entrepreneurs Alfred Ritter of Ritter Sport and Michael Durach of Develey, as well as representatives of environmental organizations such as the WWF.

“We have already been the world’s first climate-neutral textile company since 2013, and in Monaco we presented our contribution of 246,920 kilograms of CO2 per year converted into trees for the Trillion Trees campaign of the Plant-for-the-Planet organization to Prince Albert of Monaco, the organization’s patron,” Gabriele Renner reports from the reception in the Principality. So far, the compensation from the Ulm-based company has gone to a forest conservation project in Papua New Guinea. “We don’t just want to protect people against heat stress, we also want to sustainably secure the future of our children and preserve the environment to prevent further heat problems caused by global warming,” explains Sabine Stein. For this reason, the cooling functional textiles are also produced exclusively in Germany and Europe. “We can thus always control how our products are manufactured. It does cost a little more. But it is worth it to us.”

The company also joined the United Nations Global Compact and the Women’s Empowerment program in 2013 to strengthen women’s rights around the world, and the two female entrepreneurs were appointed to the “Senate of Business” back in 2011. “Here we are committed to responsible business practices, sustainability and the Senate’s World Forest Climate Initiative,” emphasizes Gabriele Renner, whose functional clothing works like an “air conditioner to put on”, cooling the body up to 12°C while saving at least 90% CO2 compared to air conditioning. This helps, for example, to protect people with multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease or cardiovascular diseases, but also firefighters or construction workers, as well as athletes, from heat problems. More than 100,000 textiles with the high-tech functional cooling system have already been sold worldwide. “This is a completely new market that we are developing here. Until now, there was no alternative to energy-intensive air conditioning systems, and outdoors – compared to our products – they don’t even work,” Sabine Stein elaborates. In 2011, this was also worth the award of the innovation prize “Land of Ideas” to the Federal President, which was then presented to the entrepreneurs by Minister President Winfried Kretschmann in Stuttgart Castle. In the meantime, cooling vests for dogs and cooling blankets for horses are also in development. “Other exciting projects in the health sector are about to be launched,” announces Gabriele Renner.