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Updated July 26, 2010

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Awards for sustainability
2009 GF Automotive received a number of awards: The employees in Suzhou, China, won two awards for reliable and outstanding delivery performance.
The Altenmarkt site won the first prize in the International Aluminium Die Casting Competition, while Knorr-Bremse awarded the Singen site as the best supplier of cast parts.
2009 In the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index (CDLI), calculated for Switzerland for the first time, GF ranked among the top contenders.
2009 The Austrian Ministry of Economics awarded a national prize for exemplary training of apprentices to GF Piping Systems in Traisen.
2009 GF ranked first for its 2008 Annual Report in the rating produced by the Northwestern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences.
2009 GF also came in first place for its Internet site in the annual report rating of the business magazine Bilanz and the Harbour Club. The consultancy Hallvarsson & Hallvarsson and the ‘Neue Zürcher Zeitung’ also gave top marks to GF for its online communications.
2009 In the inkom. Grand Prix of the German Association for Public Relations, Globe, the corporate employee newspaper, took third place.
2009 GF won third place in the Sustainability Rating of the magazine Bilanz. This was the first comprehensive sustainability rating in Switzerland and comprises over 100 criteria.
2008 In its Grand Prix 2008, the Federation of European Business Communicators Associations FEIEA conferred two awards on the employee newspaper Globe, one of them as the ‘Best multilingual publication’.
2008 Georg Fischer DEKA won the Supplier Award of Airbus. In the decisive criteria Complaint Rate and Delivery Reliability, the GF Piping Systems company in Dautphetal-Mornshausen, Germany, had a perfect performance.
2007 GF received a number of customer awards: the 2007 VW Group Award, the Newcast Award, the ZF Supplier Award and the Flow Control Innovation Award.
2007 In the ranking established by the magazine Bilanz, GF came in first in the category Corporate Governance.
2006 For its contribution to reducing emissions and for energy-saving measures, GF Automotive in Altenmarkt, Austria, was awarded the Environmental Protection Prize of the State of Styria.
2005 The Swiss ‘ethos’ foundation named GF one of the ‘Swiss leaders’ in a study on environmental and social responsibility reporting by Swiss firms.
2003 Corporate Sustainability Rating SIRI (Sustainable Investment Research International Ltd), Geneva, Switzerland, awarded Georg Fischer an ‘A’ rating.
2002 GF Automotive received the WFO (World Foundrymen Organisation) environmental award (1st place) for developing methods to prevent odour emissions.
2001 Thanks to its successful efforts in the field of environmental protection, 
Georg Fischer was included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index Fund (DJSI).
2000 Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH in Traisen, Austria, received the BDO Auxilia environmental award (1st place) for environmentally relevant process improvements.
1999     Swiss cantonal banks and the WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature included Georg Fischer in their environmental fund after it received positive ratings.
1998 The environmental prize of CIATF (International Committee of Foundry Technical Association Environmental Award) went to the Georg Fischer foundries in Singen and Leipzig, Germany.
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