High-ranking visit to KÜBLER - Minister of Economic Affairs Daniela Schmitt at the Hidden Champion
December 4, 2023
The topics are as topical as they were in May, when Minister of Economic Affairs Daniela Schmitt presented the prestigious Rhineland-Palatinate Innovation Award to KÜBLER at the award ceremony. For FUTURA, the multi-energy-capable hall heating system with integrated lighting function. The company visit to the hidden champion and innovation leader for climate-friendly hall heating technology was therefore prepared well in advance. On Thursday, the Minister of Economic Affairs met with the Managing Director of the Innovation Agency Sabine Mesletzky and Managing Director Thomas Kübler at the company's site in Ludwigshafen.
The GEG has been adopted. The funding guidelines have been finalized. But will they really come into force? The latest decision by the Federal Constitutional Court has left a big question mark over the traffic light projects. In Thomas Kübler's view, the building segment of halls with heating requirements that are completely different from multi-storey buildings has still not been adequately addressed by the political decision-makers in Berlin. This is an important topic that Minister of Economic Affairs Daniela Schmitt and Thomas Kübler discuss during the company visit.
National legislation and the current budget crisis are important items on the agenda, but by no means the only ones. The hall heating specialist has long been looking further ahead. How can the energy transition in Germany be successful? How can we jointly implement the hydrogen strategy in Rhineland-Palatinate and what must municipal heating planning achieve? Kübler is convinced that it will not work without cooperation between politicians and SMEs in particular. Their voices have been ignored for far too long.
The entrepreneur has been involved in the transfer of knowledge to politics for a good year now.
"It's not trivial to make forward-looking laws for an entire country," says Kübler. "It's important that expert knowledge is also taken into account."
The Minister of Economic Affairs can only support this point. As a strong business location, Rhineland-Palatinate has long relied on dialog. The innovation agency, which has just been launched under the leadership of Sabine Mesletzky, aims to offer companies even better framework conditions and networking opportunities in the promotion of innovation:
"When we bring business, science and politics together, there is incredible potential. We want to turn what has often been left to chance into a system. Rhineland-Palatinate should become a top location for innovation. With the innovation agency and our companies as beacons."
Kübler knows what he is talking about. His company has been developing highly efficient infrared technologies for the energy transition for almost 35 years. He knows this like no other. Hence the latest development, the FUTURA multi-energy infrared heating system, which was awarded a prize by Minister of Economic Affairs Daniela Schmitt. It transforms the great advantages of the infrared heating principle in hall buildings highly efficiently into the CO2-free era.
Depending on availability, the innovation can process renewable energies such as green electricity, blue or green hydrogen just as well as biogenic gases. The fact that the system can still also be operated with methane is due to the still uncertain availability and natural volatility of renewables, says Kübler. Because:
"In industry and commerce, production safety is right at the top of the list of requirements - as is cost-efficient, economical operation." A requirement that politicians should also take into account.
In the evening, Kübler draws a positive conclusion from the discussion. "Innovations can only be successful if the framework conditions are right. We are very grateful that the Minister is supporting us here." He is also looking forward to the exchange with the innovation agency and the potential that can be tapped into together for the state. And the Minister of Economic Affairs?
"It is an exciting and indeed a major field of action when we think of industrial and manufacturing companies: how do you heat such halls? And at a time when we also want and need to use energy sparingly? Where energy is also a question of economic efficiency for a company? It is of course crucial to proceed efficiently and therefore very, very exciting to see what is being researched here and how innovations are being developed for the future."
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