DSM and its business groups have been awarded a variety of awards and other forms of recognition by customers, suppliers, the academic world, non-governmental and trade organizations. In this chapter an overview is given of the external recognition received by DSM.
DSM regained its number one position in the chemical industry sector in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index. From 2004 to 2006 DSM was named the worldwide sustainability No. 1 in this sector. In 2007 and 2008 it ranked amongst the top leaders in the sector.
Also, DSM was independently assessed according to the FTSE4Good criteria, and satisfied the requirements to remain a constituent of the FTSE4Good Index Series.
The Product Development and Management Association (PDMA), the leading advocate and comprehensive resource for the profession of product development and innovation, selected DSM as the winner of the 2009 Outstanding Corporate Innovator Award, thus honoring the company's strategic commitment to open innovation and its exceptional skill in continuously creating and capturing value through new product and service
In 2009 DSM was awarded the international GAIN (Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition) Business Award for Innovation in Nutrition 2008 for NutriRice®. The GAIN Business Award for
Innovation in Nutrition was set up to recognize companies displaying outstanding innovation in the development of new products and services to combat malnutrition, improve public health and promote sustainable development.
According to the corporate websites performance study of the leading European web ranking agency Hallvarsson &
Halvarsson, dsm.com was ranked second best corporate website in the Netherlands for the second consecutive year. DSM won the prize for best financial website and was once again nominated for the FD Henri Sijthoff Prijs, the prize for the best annual report.
Rolf-Dieter Schwalb, DSM CFO since 2006, won the CFO of the Year Award 2009. He outperformed the CFOs of all other AEX- listed companies. Feike Sijbesma received the RSM
Distinguished Alumni Award from the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM, Erasmus University) in the Netherlands. The 2009 Frost & Sullivan Award for Global Excellence in Quality in the infant nutrition market was presented to DSM Nutritional Products. The award was conferred in recognition of DSM’s outstanding contribution in setting new safety standards. DSM was awarded the international AVK Innovation Award in the Environment category for a new, lightweight version of air-cargo containers. The containers help airlines to cut carbon emissions by 28,000 tons a year.
®claryl picture glass was awarded the 2009 ICIS Innovation Award for Best Business Innovation.
®claryl is the first commercial product in DSM’s Functional Coatings program that focuses on applying DSM’s proprietary anti-reflective coating technology in various fields.
Maxilact®, a world standard lactase enzyme, won the 2009
China Ringier Technology Innovation Award – confirming its industry-wide recognition as an effective, market leading product. As the second consecutive win for DSM Food Specialties in these international awards, the award further reinforces the company’s position as a major contributor to the advancement of the food and beverage industry through innovation.
DSM’s tensVida® (formerly known as TensGuard™) won the
NutrAward for the most innovative, evidence-based health and
nutrition ingredient. Selected by a panel of industry experts, scientists and nutritionists, plus votes from Nutracon attendees, tensVida® saw off tough competition from two other finalists to
claim this prestigious award.
Etenia™, developed by AVEBE together with DSM Food Specialties, received the prestigious Food Valley Award in the Netherlands.
DSM Engineering Plastics has been recognized as a leading solutions provider that supports the electronics industry and enables it to move away from chemicals that can lead to health and environmental problems. In the report Greening Consumer
Electronics: Moving Away from Bromine and Chlorine, the
International Chemical Secretariat (ChemSec) and US based environmental organization Clean Production Action (CPA) identified seven companies who have engineered environmental solutions that negate the need for most – or in some cases all – uses of brominated and chlorinated chemicals. The seven companies include Apple, Sony Ericsson and DSM Engineering Plastics.
Business consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan awarded their annual Product Innovation Award to DSM Composite Resins and its latest grade of Aeronite® Turane resin in the Global Aerospace
Polymers & Composites category, designed specifically to meet the needs of aerospace manufacturers.
Frost & Sullivan also awarded DSM Engineering Plastics the European Product Innovation of the Year Award in the field of high-performance polymers for electronics for Stanyl® ForTii™.
DSM Anti-Infectives was presented with the Green
Manufacturing Award for its Toansa (India) site. The Toansa site has its own water management facility, utilities and power station, thus making it self-sustaining. The manufacturing practices at Toansa demonstrate a holistic development approach in realizing green initiatives and have made the site a leader in enzymatic technologies.
The Institute for Scientific Information ranked the 2007 publication of DSM scientists and external coworkers on the sequence and annotation of the Aspergillus niger genome in 2009 as the most cited scientific paper in the field of industrial biotechnology in 2008.
Innovation Awards Program
DSM is highly committed to promoting pioneering research that leads to products or applications that enhance people's quality of life and has set up an Innovation Awards Program to recognize
Report by the Managing Board
and reward exceptional achievements by DSM employees as well as by innovative scientists working outside DSM.
In 2009, the DSM Science & Technology Awards were presented for the twenty-fourth time in the North region (Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Germany) and for the third time in the South region (Austria, Northeastern France, Southern Germany and Switzerland). These awards, granted annually, aim to encourage young scientists to undertake creative and groundbreaking PhD research.
The first prize for the North region was awarded to Belgian researcher Peter Dedecker of the Catholic University of Leuven for his PhD thesis entitled The Photophysics of the
Photoswitchable Fluorescent Protein Dronpa and its
Applications in Diffraction-unlimited Fluorescence Microscopy.
The first prize for the South region went to Swiss researcher Alexandra Teleki, who obtained her doctorate from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich (Switzerland), for her PhD research on the production and application of coated nanoparticles.
The DSM Nutrition Award 2009 for research on Human Nutrition was granted jointly to Michael F. Holick, Professor of Molecular Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine in Boston in the USA, and Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, Director of the Centre on Aging and Mobility at the Department of Rheumatology and the Institute of Physical Medicine at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, in recognition of their seminal contributions to research on vitamin D and its role in human nutrition and health.