VANERUM Strikes Gold award and Innovation award at NEOCON 2012!
VANERUM STRIKES GOLD AWARD AND INNOVATION AWARD EDUCATION SOLUTIONS AT 2012 BEST OF NEOCON® COMPETITION
The Best of NeoCon awards – held during NeoCon® World's Trade Fair at Chicago's Merchandise Mart – are the highest honor for commercial furnishings manufacturers.
Grand Rapids, MI USA,11/6/2012 - The annual Best of NeoCon® Awards – presented each year during NeoCon® World's Trade Fair at The Merchandise Mart in Chicago– recognize the most innovative new designs for commercial furnishings and are considered the highest honor commercial furnishings manufacturers can receive. The 2012 edition of this annual awards competition received more than 400 entries in various product categories, and recognized the best new products displayed at NeoCon 2012.
At NeoCon 2012, VANERUM presents eight brand new products in its i3 product range, under the motto "i3 In Action". The new products are designed with the needs of K-12, Higher Ed and lifelong learning in mind.
I3 stands for integrated learning and meeting solutions that foster communication between participants and interaction with various technology devices, and inspire among others by their ease of use, comfort, design, colours,…
I3 products are fresh, durable and innovative designs with a strong emphasis on ergonomics and compatibility with today's and tomorrow's audiovisual and interactive technologies.
The NeoCon jury recognized these features in the VANERUM i3 Board and the VANERUM Lighthouse products and awarded them with the Gold Award and Innovation Award respectively in the category Education Solutions.
i3 Board is an all-in-one interactive whiteboard solution for your digital learning environment, based on a patented height adjustable and pivoting swing wall mount that brings interactivity and differentiated or collaborative learning within reach in any classroom.
Lighthouse is a mobile interactive floor projection unit that converts any room into an interactive learning environment in a flash. It innovates by offering flexible interactive technologies in areas without fixed infrastructure.
Lighthouse is a plug-and-play product that requires no installation. It is a user-friendly concept and thus suitable for children from very young age.
"We are very pleased with the success of our product innovations showing from these awards and the one we struck before with our Opti range," says Gert Van Erum, President of the VANERUM Group.
"Based on the trends we observe in the market, we aim to keep developing products and solutions that fit our i3 philosophy. I3 gives learners and educators easy access to modern and ergonomic learning tools and methods."
"We chose i3 in action as our NeoCon theme for 2012" adds Jim Stelter, CEO at Vanerum Stelter. "We want to emphasize the synergy between the products in our range.
All products developed under our i3 philosophy are designed to complement each other, just like the four functional zones (teacher, student, wall and informal zone -ed) we observed in every learning environment.
This year, the ground work we did with the New World of Learning research culminated in 8 new products under the i3 flag, of which two were recognized by the NeoCon judges for their innovative nature. We are very happy about this recognition.
It shows our international team is on the right track, and motivates us to keep moving in this direction."
See the entire VANERUM product range at NeoCon VANERUM's showroom (Suite 1191) or www.vanerum.be/neocon2012
About VANERUM
With over 40 years of experience, VANERUM has become one of Europe's leading suppliers of integrated environments for learning and visual communication. Every day, VANERUM changes the way people study, work, and communicate visually throughout the world, providing products and solutions for education, corporate and commercial markets.
In 1968, Robert Van Erum formed the foundation of VANERUM. The success story started with the trade in blackboards and continued with a wide product diversification and the offer of total packages.
VANERUM Group has developed into a company with a reputation for quality, performance and outstanding service. With over 40 years of experience, VANERUM Group is changing learning environments by consistently pursuing new paths in design, by introducing new and innovative materials and by truly advanced concepts, integrating technology in traditional environments.
VANERUM Group has 400 employees, production plants and sales offices in the USA, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, France and Denmark and partners all over Europe, the Middle East and Asia. More information: www.vanerum.com
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