Our awards

Giulio Mazzalupi Award

The Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award, instigated in 2018, aims to reward a person or a team for significant contributions of improving and executing processes aimed at delivering products or services to customers in the most satisfying, sustainable, cost-effective and timely manner.

Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award 2025

The Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award 2025 goes to Chad Chen, Hongwei Wang and Frank Xu, for using a Mechanical Vapor Recompression system to reduce up to 90% of wastewater, creating both environmental and operational benefits for many of our remanufacturing hubs and plants around the world.

The team behind the Mechanical vapor recompression system receives the Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award. Using the technology on our internal processes has had both environmental and operational benefits, the water can be reused and only a small part of concentrated contaminated water needs to be processed leading to an impressive up to 90 percent reduction in wastewater.

Previous Giulio Mazzalupi Award winners

The Giulio Mazzalupi Award for operational excellence was instigated to reward a person or a team for significant contributions of improving and executing processes aimed at delivering products or services to customers in the most satisfying, sustainable, cost-effective and timely manner.

2025

Winner: Chad Chen, Hongwei Wang and Frank Xu
In recognition of: Using a Mechanical Vapor Recompression system to reduce wastewater, creating environmental and operational benefits for remanufacturing hubs and plants around the world.

2024

Winner: Johan Dom, Marcel Horemans, Karel Vennens and Dave Verresen
In recognition of: Developing and implementing an automated manufacturing line that truly shows operational excellence.

2023

Winner: Hyukseo Kwon and Leo Jung
In recognition of: Developing an innovative operation value chain to meet the needs in the semiconductor sector created by a fast-growing global market, combined with continued supply chain risks.

2022

Winner: Anna-Lena Nordqvist, Fredrik Dahlström, Dennis Öhlund, Mattias Schölin, Kerstin Matiasson and Lennart Remnebäck
In recognition of: The achievement of building an efficient and agile, end to end process that enables the delivery of “Saltus attachments” on demand.

2021

Winner: Alexander Irchin and Oezkan Dimir
In recognition of: Moving away from air freight use to rail transportation. A more economical way of sending heavy pumps weighing more than 150 kilograms, plus semi-finished parts like components and rotors, from Cologne in Germany to Tianjin, China, for local production and distribution. 

2020

Winner: Bart Vercammen, Rik Van De Velde and Veerle Van Den Bossche
In recognition of: The innovation of a smart software system based on actionable analytics and artificial intelligence, to increase operational effectiveness and improve collaboration through insights in reliable and single source data.

2019

Winner: Sylwester Manski, Mario Pappalardo, Isabelle De Wolf, Daniele Lucchini, Simone Rabadozza and Ruggero Vencato.  
In recognition of: An automated process in the manufacturing of filters.

About Giulio Mazzalupi

This award is given in honor of the former President & CEO Giulio Mazzalupi, who among other significant contributions during his 31 years (from 1971-2002) of service completely re-shaped Airpower in Belgium and established Compressor Technique. The Giulio Mazzalupi Operational Excellence Award is granted annually for ‘significant contributions of improving and executing processes for delivering products or services to customers in the most satisfying, sustainable, cost-effective and timely way’.

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Peter Wallenberg Award

The Peter Wallenberg Marketing and Sales Award recognizes the most innovative and successfully implemented method in the field of sales and marketing.
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John Munck Award

The John Munck Award, established in 1988, is presented each year to reward the person or group of persons having produced the best innovative technical development contribution during the year.
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Safety and Health Award

Our Safety and Health Award was established in 2012 to honor outstanding commitment and performance in the safety and health area. It aims to promote and inspire operational entities within Atlas Copco Group to improve the safety and health for employees and other stakeholders.
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