Freudenberg Sealing Technologies Wins International Creative Media Award

In today’s technology-driven world, innovative industrial companies typically work very hard to explain their significance and work to a broad audience of consumers and potential new employees. “The tremendous investment we make in publishing ESSENTIAL in terms of reporting, writing, graphics, design and printing is a tribute to the importance we place on communications with our employees, customers, business partners and global communities," Grabenauer said. "In contrast to more traditional news journals, we want to use ESSENTIAL to create emotions, tell true-to-life stories and illuminate complex topics for our readers from many different angles. Our writing and design treatments offer an element of surprise and encourage readers to consider topics in a new way. They promote understanding and appreciation for technology and industry in enjoyable online and printed formats that are miles apart from more sober corporate business publications.”

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies launched the ESSENTIAL magazine in 2013. The magazine is published twice a year in German and in English with a circulation of approximately 13,000 copies. Each issue covers current societal and industrial topics that are impacting Freudenberg Sealing Technologies and its customers through informative reports, unexpected interviews, creative news articles and top quality illustrations, infographics and photos. Using the full range of journalistic formats, stories are typically presented from the perspective of users and pioneers. Recurring categories and article series give the magazine structure while short, quickly read content alternates with more thorough, in-depth coverage.