Founder and CEO of German BRAIN AG, Dr. Holger Zinke, is awarded with the ”Deutschen Umweltpreis 2008“
German biotech company pacemaker for sustainability
“For industrial or “white” biotechnology , defined as the use of the natures toolbox for industrial applications, helps save energy and materials, eases the burden on finite resources, protects the environment and improves the economic value added. The manifold fields of application and the spectrum of methods offered by this technology make it a key cross-industrial technology that helps to achieve sustainable development”, Dr. Fritz Brickwedde, secretary general of DBU said. “Dr. Zinke represents a type of modern, innovative entrepreneur in a pioneering branch of industry, who combines in his person inventiveness, commitment, creativity and assertiveness in an exemplary fashion“.
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