Awards & Nominations

The uma RECYCLED PET PEN ALUMA continues to make history: We have won the German Design Award 2025! What was once a recycled PET bottle and an aluminum can is now an innovative writing instrument that combines elegance and environmental awareness in perfect harmony. With two recycled materials, we are setting new standards - not only for the environment, but also for communication. Manufactured in Europe, ClimatePartner-certified and equipped with sophisticated color highlights, the uma ALUMA offers the full spectrum for CI-compliant advertising messages, including laser engraving and printing options.

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Wir freuen uns, bekannt geben zu dürfen, dass wir den German Customer Award 2024 für unseren hervorragenden Kundenservice gewonnen haben. Mit maßgeschneiderten Lösungen, die Markenbotschaften mit Stil und Wirkung transportieren, unterstützen wir unsere Kunden auf dem Weg zum perfekten Werbeschreibgerät – von der ersten Idee bis hin zur finalen Umsetzung.

Dieses außergewöhnliche Engagement wurde nun auf höchster Ebene gewürdigt: Wir erhielten den renommierten German Customer Award 2024. Dieser Preis wird jährlich an Unternehmen verliehen, die in den Bereichen Qualität, Service und Innovation herausragende Leistungen erbringen. Die Preisträger werden nach strengen Kriterien ausgewählt, die sich auf sieben Hauptbereiche und insgesamt 131 Unterkriterien erstrecken. Es freut uns sehr, dass wir alle Kriterien überdurchschnittlich erfüllen. Damit setzen wir neue Maßstäbe in der Branche und beweisen, dass exzellenter Kundenservice keineswegs selbstverständlich ist. 

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We are proud to announce that the uma RECYCLED PET PEN ALUMA has been nominated in the Excellent Product Design category. This unique writing instrument combines two recycled materials, a PET bottle and an aluminium beverage can. This not only increases the level of sustainability for communication, but also makes a valuable contribution to the environment.

uma RECYCLED² uses various resources to complete the upcycling project into a recycled aluminium writing instrument manufactured in Europe with recycled rPET beverage bottle accents.  Innovative, sustainable and unique, the ClimatePartner-certified product offers cool elegance with colourful highlights. Paired with the story, the certified production processes and the recognisable carbon footprint, we are taking another step towards sustainable, responsible writing and advertising.

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We have won the title of Top Innovator for the third time. As the world's leading manufacturer of writing instruments, we inspire with our extraordinary, innovative and sustainable promotional writing instruments. Through continuous further development, we prove time and again that there are no limits when it comes to sustainability. Our particularly sustainable corporate philosophy is also reflected in our RECYCLED PET PEN PRO ocean model. With this writing instrument, we combine not only ecological but also social sustainability with our innovative strength!

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Our RECYCLED PET PEN PRO ocean model impressed the jury and is one of the winners of the German Design Awards 2024.

The aim of this award is to recognise cross-industry designs that not only look good, but also inspire and guide others. We are writing lasting history in a unique design with this range of writing instruments in a palette of pastel shades.

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We are pleased to inform you that the uma RECYCLED PET PEN ALUMA has been nominated for the German Innovation Award 2024. This award honours products, projects and ground-breaking achievements that sustainably improve life through innovation and progress. With the uma ALUMA, we were not only able to increase the degree of sustainability by using two different materials, but also to minimise the certified production processes and the CO₂ footprint, this guarantees sustainable, responsible writing and advertising.

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Delicate mesh structure, filigree and intriguing: we were singled out for the excellent design of our MESH. We are delighted to be nominated for the German Design Award for the first time. Like a high-end chronograph, the MESH combines functionality with design. The barrel of the writing instrument is encased in a mesh band in which fine metal threads are ingeniously woven into tiny meshes. This nomination is a testament to our continued development of innovative and aesthetically pleasing products.

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In an independent selection process, we were able to convince the jury with our particular innovation successes and our innovative overall business processes. "uma has established itself in the field of promotional writing instruments, especially through the use of alternative, sustainable raw materials, and is setting trends," said the jury.

With the rPET writing instrument series, which is manufactured entirely in Europe and is ClimatePartner-certified, we are one of the first and currently the only writing instrument manufacturers to use this material. Building on the success of the series, the further development and addition of elegant metal applications will follow in 2022.

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The German Design Council has presented companies with the German Innovation Award for the fourth time now. This prize by the renowned institution, which is awarded annually, recognises meaningful product innovations that are on the one hand forward-looking, but also increasingly distinguish themselves through user-centred development and thereby make our everyday lives better and easier.

The uma RECYCLED PET PEN serie was awarded of the German Innovation Award in Gold – the highest accolade awarded by the jury in this prize.

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We are pleased about the nomination for the PSI Sustainability Award 2021 in no less than 6 categories. From the consumer's point of view, the topic of sustainability is increasingly becoming the focus of purchasing decisions.

The PSI Sustainability Award is the only sustainability award in the promotional products industry and we are proud to be able to convince in various categories again this year.

uma was nominated in the following categories:
- Economic Excellence
- Environmental Excellence
- Social Excellence
- Social Initiative
- Sustainable Product
- Innovator of the Year

The category "Innovator of the year", was awarded for the first time this year. It is not only about a sustainable product, but about a comprehensive sustainability strategy in the whole value chain of the products and the company.

Environmental Excellence – 3rd place – Awarded for investments in sustainable action!

At this year’s PSI Sustainability Award 2019 we were lucky to receive an award again. We received the PSI Sustainability Award in the category Environmental Excellence for our investments in the production of climate-neutral writing instruments.

We were also pleased to be nominated in a total of five different categories.

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Creativity, imagination, empathy and the courage to innovate are in demand – this is how innovative ideas are always created at uma. The involvement of our employees in strategic planning and the frequent inquiries of customer wishes enables us to recognize market needs as quickly as possible and often to be faster than the competition.

We were among the best in the TOP 100 innovation competition. In an independent selection process, we scored particularly well with innovative processes and innovative management. The fact that forward-looking action is also reflected in innovative products was impressively demonstrated with the uma recycled PET PEN series. The use of alternative materials and the investment in new production processes make uma one of the TOP 100 most innovative companies in the German SME sector.

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The German Sustainability Award (DNP) is both the best known and the most coveted of all the environmental, CSR and sustainability awards awarded in Germany. Over the past 10 years, the DNP has developed into the largest award for close action in Europe. For this reason we are very proud of our nomination this year.

After an assessment by the Collaborating Centre on Sutainable Comsumption and Production (CSCP), the uma model PET-PEN was nominated for the 11th German Sustainability Award ("Germany's most sustainable products") by the jury of the German Sustainability Award as part of the REWE Group consumer voting.

After winning the PSI Sustainability Award 2017 in the category "Sustainable Writing Instruments", a jury of experts was again convinced by the upcycling idea uma PET-PEN. 

You can find more information about uma PET PEN here: rPET – recycled PET bottle.

In the truest sense of the word 'sustainable', we have presented ourselves at the Sustain-ability Awards for the 4th year in succession. Once again, the result in 2018 is a memora-ble one. Nominated right away in 3 categories, we were awarded 2nd place in the “Social Excellence 2018” category. The jury praised our social commitment towards the men and women who work for uma as well as the social projects associated with our business ac-tivities, facilitating an optimum balance between family life and the world of work in Fischerbach.
7 nominations in 4 years, 2 first places in the categories of “Sustainable Product 2017” and “Social Initiative 2015” and a 2nd place are encouragement enough to continue our efforts along these lines. 

Learn more in umaSECRETS about how we live out our CSR and sustainability. You can become part of our philosophy and discover sustainable products, social projects and the protection of a sustainable supply chain.

With its RECYCLED PET PEN, uma has demonstrated that the end of the plastic bottle does not have to be The End. Old PET bottles are collected, washed and shredded. Then the resultant raw material is melted to form a granulate and is cast into moulds. This enables a 0.5 litre PET bottle to be turned into a uma RECYCLED PET PEN: robust, durable and attractive.

With this effective form of 'upcycling', the writing implement specialist from the Black Forest has not only demonstrated its innovative powers convincingly. It has also set an example in sustainability that others would do well to emulate. For this, uma was presented with the Sustainability Award 2017 in the category of Sustainable Writing Instruments.

The wording of this testimonial reads as follows: “A successful concept, in particular in terms of the communication concept together with Bionade and the regional identity of the product. A success story”! For more information, please visit www.psi-awards.de.