Silver national innovation award – automated guided vehicle Optimatik 160

Yesterday, the Chamber od Commerce of Slovenia conferred the 15th national awards for the best innovations, which is the highest award for innovative achievements made by Slovenian companies and promotion of innovativeness in Slovenia. Twelve gold, one special  and twenty-five silver awards is the outcome of the national finals which involved 182 innovations and 774 innovators at the regional level. This year, they also awarded the innovation of the year, selected by the public.

TPV Group is placed among the most innovative companies as we received a silver award for the innovation called »Innovative, automated guided vehicle Optimatik 160« whose authors are: Janez Sluga, Dominik Rajšelj M.Sc., Robert Simčič, Aleksander Brence, Aleš Ucman, Matej Mikolič, Matjaž Sotler. Congratulations to all innovators for their outstanding achievement.

Slovenia is a country of innovators which is confirmed by the information published by Union Scoreboard 2017 according to which Slovenia is put second in the group of »strong innovators«. Relative competitive advantages of our country in comparison with  other EU countries lie in human resources, research and development investments and innovation-friendly business environment. According to the global creativity index, we are the eighth most talented nation in the world, while the global technology index has placed us among the first fifth of most successful countries. Therefore, TPV Group has confirmed again to be one of the most innovative and successful companies.