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DESIGN<br />
<strong>Kemppi</strong> ProNews 2 • 2006<br />
MinarcMig’s journey<br />
from drawing board to<br />
Red dot awards gala<br />
Winning one of the world’s most prestigious<br />
industrial design award is no easy<br />
task. The product has to be functional<br />
and innovative in every way. The objective<br />
of designing good products, however,<br />
is not to win prizes. Prizes are the<br />
result of hard, motivated work, say the<br />
designers of <strong>Kemppi</strong>’s award-winning<br />
MinarcMig Adaptive machine.<br />
Jonne Valola and Jarkko Havia, Industrial Designers<br />
The easiest way for visitors to get to the red dot design<br />
museum from the main railway station in Essen is by<br />
tram. After a twenty minute trip, the visitor is greeted<br />
by an impressive sight: a giant, two-legged steel tower<br />
called ”Dobbelbock”. The red dot design museum is located<br />
in the historic Zollverein Mine Complex, whose<br />
symbol is that tower. The enormous pulleys at its top<br />
were long ago used to bring coal up from the depths of<br />
the mine.<br />
Even though there is no more mining in Zollverein, the<br />
area is being preserved for future generations as a memorial<br />
of the Ruhr Valley’s rise and golden age as a centre<br />
of heavy industry. Zollverein has also been preserved for<br />
its architecture, as the extraordinary objective of this industrial<br />
environment is to unite carefully planned order<br />
and harmony with the enormous scales of the mine in<br />
a completely unique way. Today, Zollverein is home to<br />
museums and businesses, and plays host particularly to
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