EARTH DAY 2022: How we can change our lives – starting on Earth Day
1. banish harmful things from your everyday life: eliminate cheap fashion from your life, consider whether you will wear the item you want more than 30 times and buy it from sustainable labels. Ban cheap food and coffee-to-go cups, switch to green electricity. 10 things that could disappear
2. buy better products: Prominent brands manage to be very present through clever advertising. Buy and borrow from unknown stores. More under
3. reduce plastic: look out for fashion made from renewable raw materials such as linen or cotton and buy food without packaging wherever possible. You can find more ideas here
4. choose brands with trustworthy certificates: The choice is ours: pay attention to how the products are labeled. Here are the best seals for your textiles
5. don’t consume absurd things: coffee capsules, deodorant sprays, squeezies, disposable plastic bottles… do you really have to?
6 Change your life: Earth Day is a great opportunity to think about old habits. Why not try out a repair cafe, take a stress-free vacation or find out about solidarity farming and green emails. You don’t have to do everything at once. Try starting each month with a new good idea. You can find more ideas here
These prizes are dedicated to our team!
The year 2021 ends for the internationally active terry weaving mill HERKA GmbH. as it began, with awards: The two most important prizes in the German-speaking promotional market as well as the highest award of the Austrian state were awarded to the soon-to-be 95-year-old weaving mill in Kautzen. This is where old knowledge meets state-of-the-art technology and an innovative and flexible team. Together with its sister company, Textilveredelung Gmünd (TVG), the company employs 120 people.
January 2021: The PSI (Promotional Product Institute), the largest corporate network of the promotional products industry in Europe, awards the most popular and best-selling promotional towel VINTAGE as STAR PRODUCT 2021. The smooth cloth with the dimensions 50 x 50 cm can be woven with logo/lettering from 120 pieces and is popular as a kitchen towel & promotional gift. It is also available in BIO quality according to GOTS. GOTS, the Global Organic Textile Standard, is the strictest international organic standard for textiles.
June 2021: The MUTMACHER 2021 – Opportunity through Creativity – was awarded to companies by the Lower Austrian Chamber of Commerce that have used creative ideas to combat coronavirus. HERKA was honored in the Trade & Crafts category for the newly developed BIO relax fashion SAROM ®, which is 100% designed, woven, finished & made up in the Waldviertel. SAROM ® fulfills all GOTS and OEKO-TEX criteria.
October 2021: For the project “TEX2MAT – New processes for recycling textile waste of multi-material composition”, HERKA GmbH received the STATE PRIZE 2021 Environmental and Energy Technology in the Circular Economy & Resource Efficiency category from Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler. With the help of the process developed together with TU Vienna, BOKU Vienna, Montanuni Leoben, Salesianer Miettex GmbH, Andritz AG, Starlinger & Co GmbH, Fildan GmbH, Ecoplus NÖ and many more, new towels were produced from used textiles that are comparable to new goods. State prizes are the highest awards of the Republic of Austria. An award can be regarded as the highest seal of quality that the Republic of Austria can bestow.
December 2021: HERKA won the PROMOTIONAL GIFT AWARD 2022 with the WALDVIERTLER HAMAMTUCH, a beach towel made of particularly lightweight, material-saving doubleface fabric. The sustainable towel can be produced from 40 pieces from a pool of more than 40 yarn colors adapted to the customer’s CI. One of the highest b2b prizes was awarded for this communicative product.
“The difficult situation of the pandemic has particularly encouraged our creativity. Processes and communication channels had to be changed due to the COVID situation and it has once again shown the strengths, ideas and skills of our employees. These awards are clearly dedicated to our team,” says HERKA & TVG Managing Director Thomas Pfeiffer.
