KKT chillers a winner in the Red Dot Award 2014:

The Compact-Line is awarded for high design quality.

KKT chillers convinced the 40-member expert panel for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014 with the high design quality of its Compact-Line. In the current competition, the international experts discussed and evaluated 4,815 entries from 53 countries. But only designs which won over the jury with quality and innovative strength won an award. The innovative Chiller-Line was successful and received the coveted Red Dot quality seal as its deserved reward.

On 7 July 2014, the highlight of the internationally renowned product competition will be celebrated in Essen, Germany: the presentation of the acclaimed Red Dot during the traditional Red Dot Gala and subsequent Designers’ Night. On that evening, roughly 1,200 guests from around the world gather in Essen in order to experience the awards ceremony. In the course of the party in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen, the winners’ exhibition will also be opened, presenting the award-winning cBoxX to a wide audience for four weeks before it enters the museum’s permanent exhibition.

The Compact-Line - Efficient. Compact. Innovative.

When it comes to efficiency, compactness and innovative strength, the Compact-Line is a new generation in chiller technology. With a housing featuring the smooth and flowing lines of state-of-the-art industrial design, the powerful device gives away at first sight its great efficiency and the wide range of innovations included in the latest, cool chiller line. Innovative high-efficiency components are arranged in a way to give the chiller the smallest footprint, allowing the Compact-Line to fit seamlessly into almost any gap between machines or facilities. The perfect interplay of components does not only allow for maximum performance in minimum space, but also reduces operating costs significantly. On top of that, the control panel with its user-friendly interface will meet the needs of any operator and also facilitates remote maintenance and updates via the Internet, the app or USB. The communications interfaces between the application and the chiller also leave nothing to be desired.

Prof. Dr. Peter Zec, initiator and CEO of Red Dot, on the decision process in the Red Dot Award: “The 40 experts assessed the quality of the entries with the utmost care and attention. Due to their backgrounds, they also assessed the special cultural aspects of the designs from 53 countries. But only the best products receive an award from the jury. This is especially reflected in the percentage of successful entries in the Red Dot Award, which is much smaller in contrast to other international design competitions. Therefore, the winners can be proud of their achievements – with their entries, they stood out from the rest and were able to pass the test in front of the critical eyes of the experts. This success will be perceptible during the Red Dot Gala, when the laureates will receive the recognition of the international audience.”

The award-winning products in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen

With around 2,000 exhibits spread over an area of more than 4,000 square meters, the Red Dot Design Museum houses the largest exhibition of contemporary design worldwide. The award-winning products from the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2014 will be presented in an impressive special exhibition from 8th July to 3rd August 2014. Since touching and testing is expressly encouraged in the hands-on exhibition, visitors experience the current best achievements at close quarters in “Design on Stage”. This way, design enthusiasts can find out about the trends in international product design and assure themselves of the good quality of the cBoxX by KKT chillers.

The Red Dot Design Award

With the Red Dot Design Award, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen created an internationally renowned product competition. Its prize, the Red Dot, has established itself worldwide as one of the most sought-after quality marks for excellent design. The Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen displays the award-winning products in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen for at least one year.

In order to appraise the diversity in the field of design in a professional manner, the Red Dot Design Award breaks down into the three disciplines and 19 categories. In the discipline Red Dot Award: Product Design, category Industry and crafts the submitted cBoxX are evaluated according to the highest standards. The adjudication process follows a canon of strict criteria, which is constantly adapted to the latest findings in formal, technical, manufacturing, societal, industrial and ecological requirements. These criteria for instance are degree of innovation, functionality, durability and formal quality provide a guiding framework, which is filled in individually by each juror.

Kasendorf, March 2014

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