Excellent! The Resysta Universal Performance Board wins Red Dot for high quality design

Munich. The jury has reached its verdict: After several days of assessing thousands of products from all over the world, the Resysta Universal Performance Board received the distinction “Red Dot”. With the UPB, Resysta has created an outstanding product that the expert committee for the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017 awarded the internationally sought-after seal of quality.

Universal Performance Boards made of Resysta are 100% water-resistant and can be handled like wood - just mill, cut, sand, screw nail, staple or bond it. The material Resysta is the world’s only natural fibre material that equals tropical wood in characteristics and materiality without the need to cut down any tree. It consists of approx. 60% rice husks and is 100% recyclable.

Professor Dr. Peter Zec, founder and CEO of the Red Dot Award: “The Red Dot winners are pursuing the right design strategy. They have recognised that good design and economic success go hand in hand. The award by the critical Red Dot jury documents their high design quality and is indicative of their successful design policy.”

The significance of the international design competition, Red Dot Award: Product Design, with its headquarter in Essen, Germany is well established internationally. It was already more than 60 years ago that a jury convened for the first time to assess the best designs of the day. Since then, an expert team has been awarding the seal of quality for good design and innovation to the outstanding designs of the year.

Manufacturers and designers around the globe were also invited to enter their products in the 2017 competition. The jury of around 40 independent designers, design professors and specialist journalists tested, discussed and assessed each individual product, awarding the Honourable Mention for a well-conceived detail solution, the Red Dot for high design quality and the Red Dot: Best of the Best for ground-breaking design. In total, the competition received more than 5,500 entries from 54 countries this year.

The Red Dot Award: Product Design 2017 will culminate in Essen on 3 July 2017. This is when the Red Dot: Best of the Best laureates receive their trophies during the Red Dot Gala award ceremony. At the subsequent Designers’ Night after-show party, the award winners will celebrate in the midst of all the prize-winning products in the Red Dot Design Museum Essen, and the Red Dot winners will receive their well-earned certificates. For five weeks, the special exhibition “Design on Stage” will present the winning products of the year as part of the world’s largest exhibition of contemporary design.

The Red Dot Design Yearbook 2017/2018 also comes out on 3 July. The international reference guide for award-winning design presents all of the year’s winning products. They will also be presented on the Internet, in particular in the online presentation, the Red Dot App and on the design platform Red Dot 21.

About the Red Dot Design Award:

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 of Red Dot Award: Product Design, Red Dot Award: Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept. The Red Dot Award is organised by Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen and is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 1955, a jury convened for the first time to assess the best designs of the day. In the 1990s, Red Dot CEO Professor Dr. Peter Zec developed the name and brand of the award. Ever since, the sought-after Red Dot award has been the revered international seal of outstanding design quality. More information is available at www.red-dot.org.

About Resysta International GmbH

Thanks to his family’s furniture company, Resysta’s CEO Bernd Duna recognized very early that sustainably produced tropical wood is in increasingly short supply with correspondingly rising prices. Therefore, he developed and patented Resysta, the world’s only natural fibre material that equals tropical wood in characteristics and materiality without the need to cut down any tree. The technology company Resysta International licenses the production technology of this sustainable and fully recyclable material to blue chip customers. Thousands of installations, innumerable application possibilities and over 15 years of experience convince producers across the globe. They use diverse manufacturing technologies to craft versatile products made of Resysta with the natural look and feel of tropical wood.

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