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.
