In the TOP 100 scientific selection process, innovation researcher Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Franke and his team, commissioned by compamedia IST Metz, examined more than 100 innovation indicators from the five categories of innovation-promoting top management, innovation climate, innovative processes and organization, external orientation/open innovation and innovation success. In principle, the TOP 100 analysis is concerned with the question of whether a company's innovations are just a product of chance or are systematically planned and thus repeatable. A special weighting is given to the question of whether and how innovations and product improvements are successful on the market.
IST Metz is already for the second time among the top innovators. For more than 40 years, the family-owned company has been producing systems that cure printed products and coatings by means of UV irradiation. Particularly in the target sector of the printing industry, the company has had to face up to digital change in recent years. IST Metz then expanded its business field to include the coating of touch displays or UV air sterilization. The medium-sized company also uses the UV technology developed for displays to finish wooden surfaces. In addition, IST Metz has developed a new curing solution that makes it possible to dispense with photoinitiators in the curing process.