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Updated October 1, 2008

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Awards for sustainability
2008 GF 2007 Annual Report receives two awards. In a rating produced by the Swiss business paper Bilanz GF won first prize in the category "Value Reporting". In another analysis published by the Northwest Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, "Switzerland's Best Annual Reports", the GF report came in second.
2008 MAN Commercial Vehicles has named GF Automotive in Leipzig as "Trucknology Supplier 2007". The environmental aspect was a crucial factor in making the award.
2008 The employee magazine GLOBE won silver at the European BCP Award (Best of Corporate Publishing).
2008 Georg Fischer DEKA has won the Supplier Award given by Airbus, the commercial aircraft company.
2007 The Lower Austria Chamber of Commerce gave GF Piping Systems in Traisen an award for its innovative apprentice training.
2007 The Chinese joint venture Chinaust was named an “excellent supplier” by the vehicle manufacturer FAW Jiefang.
2007 Agie Charmilles Japan, the sales company of GF AgieCharmilles in Yokohama, was given the “Excellent Company” award for the seventh year in a row by the Nihon Kanagata Health Insurance Association.
2007 GF received a number of customer awards: the 2007 VW Group Award for the design of a component made of a new light cast iron material, the Newcast Award in the field of aluminium sand casting, the ZF Supplier Award and the Flow Control Innovation Award for the new electromagnetic flowmeter sensor 2552.
2007 In the company ranking established by the business magazine Bilanz, Georg Fischer is in first place for Corporate Governance. Together with Heidrick & Struggles, Switzerland's leading business medium analysed corporate management at the 100 most important companies in the country.
2007 In the annual ranking established by Bilanz, Georg Fischer is number two in the category "The Leading Communicators". The agency Zenhäusern & Partner studied Switzerland's top 100 corporations on behalf of the Swiss business publication.
2007 At the inkom. Grand Prix of the German Association of Public Relations, GLOBE the employee newspaper of Georg Fischer came in second in the category "Newspapers with a circulation of over 10,000". The publication appears four times a year in five languages. Along with the intranet, it is the platform where employees find regular information on sustainability issues.
2006 For its modern, energy-saving lighting systems, GF Automotive in Mettmann, Germany, has received the GreenLight plaque awarded by the European Commission.
2006 For its contribution to reducing emissions and for energy-saving measures, GF Automotive in Altenmarkt, Austria, has been awarded the Environmental Protection Prize of the State of Styria.
2006 Georg Fischer rises to 9th place in the rankings of sustainably managed Swiss companies published by the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland.
2005     INRATE includes Georg Fischer Ltd in its asset portfolio.
2005 Georg Fischer rises 42 places to 11th place in the rankings of sustainable managed Swiss companies published by BILANZ.
2005 The Swiss "ethos" foundation names Georg Fischer one of the "Swiss leaders" in a study on envirnonmental and social responsibility reporting by Swiss firms.
2005 Beijing Agie Charmilles [BAC], a manufacturing company of GF AgieCharmilles based in China , receives "Safety Production Award" from regional government.
2004 The 2003 Water Award "Business and Water Pollution Control" for Lower Austria is given to Georg Fischer Automotive subsidiaries in Herzogenburg for their project entiteld "Emergency Organization for Water Pollution Control".
2003 A- Rating awarded by Corporate Sustainability Rating SiRi (Sustainable Investment Research International Ltd,) , Geneva, Switzerland.
2002 Georg Fischer foundry in Mettmann, Germany, receives WFO (World Foundrymen Organisation) environmental award for developing methods to prevent odour emissions.
2002 INRATE „Leader-in-Sustainability-Award“ goes to Agie Charmilles for environmentally compatible production.
2001 Thanks to its successes in the field of environmental protection, Georg Fischer is included in the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index Fund (DJSI).
2000 Georg Fischer Fittings GmbH in Traisen, Austria, receives the BDO Auxilia environmental award for environmentally relevant process improvements, taking first place.
1999 Swiss Cantonal Banks and WWF Worldwide Fund for Nature include Georg Fischer in their environmental funds after it received positive ratings.
1998 CIATF Umweltpreis (International Committee of Foundry Technical Association) goes to Georg Fischer foundries in Singen and Leipzig, Germany.
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