Master M 350 product family awarded with the Red Dot Product Design Award
KEMPPI PRESS RELEASE 4 MAY 2023 14.15 EET
Master M 350 product family awarded with the Red Dot Product Design Award
Kemppi’s Master M 350 product family has been awarded with the distinguished Red Dot Product Design Award. All Master M products are developed and designed in Finland and represent the utmost user experience and ergonomy.
Master M is designed together with professional welders and offers excellent usability and features beyond great welding - making industrial welding effortless.
Master M for industrial welding performance
Master M is the premium compact MIG/MAG series that takes industrial welding performance to a higher level and guarantees excellent usability for manual, synergic, and pulse MIG welding. Digital arc control, fast set-up techniques, and excellent power-to-weight ratio set new standards for welding quality. The integrated LED work lights improves safety and increases productivity in low light conditions.
When Master M product family was introduced in March 2022, it included three class-leader models 353, 355, and 358, featuring alternative Manual, Auto, and Auto Pulse specifications. All three models are now awarded with the Red Dot Product Design Award.
Focus on user experience and easy-to-move
The safe-lift mechanical design ensures the Master M can be carried by hand or suspended above ground level by crane, ensuring the safe and convenient movement of the power source on site. In addition, optional transport carriages support alternative circumstances and movement on site.
“Since the very beginning of Kemppi’s history, Kemppi products have been designed for welders. The ease-of-use, user-friendliness and comfort of use are the core characteristics in mind of Kemppi’s designers. The Master M equipment focuses on ergonomy and transportability,” says Jari Kettunen, Kemppi’s Design Manager.
“The user-oriented design philosophy is something that Kemppi’s designers and engineers have successfully managed to apply to every machine designed since the company was founded in 1949,” continues Jari Kettunen.
Investment to design has brought Kemppi as the first company in the field of welding several international design awards. In 2020, MasterTig welding equipment and Flexlite TX welding torch received the international Red Dot Product Design Award. In 2012, Kempact RA product family received the international iF Design Award. In 2009, FitWeld 300 welding machine and SuperSnake GT02S subfeeder received the Red Dot Honourable Mentions. In 2006 MinarcMig Adaptive 180 received the Red Dot Design Award. In 2022, about 5% of Kemppi’s turnover went to R&D activities. User experience is at the core of all product development.
Master M product information:
https://www.kemppi.com/en-US/offering/discover/master-m/
For additional information, please contact:
Jari Kettunen
Design Manager, Concept & UX Design
Tel: +358 44 2899 562
jari.kettunen@kemppi.com
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Image captions
Image: “Kemppi-Master-M-group-family.jpg“: The Master M elevates industrial welding performance, ensuring outstanding welding quality.
Image: “Kemppi-Master-M-with-cooler.jpg”: Master M is a compact MIG/MAG welder with manual, synergic and pulse welding options. Master M experience can be completed with several accessories.
Image: “Kemppi-Master-M-lights-close-up.jpg”: The integrated and self-charging LED work lights are an unique feature in Master M family.
Image: “Kettunen-Jari-Kemppi-Red-Dot”: Jari Kettunen is the Design Manager at Kemppi making sure that Kemppi’s products are always designed with the user experience in core.
About Red Dot
The international design competition, the “Red Dot Design Award”, is aimed at the companies who would like to distinguish their business activities through design.
The award breaks down into three disciplines: the Red Dot Award: Product Design, Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design and Red Dot Award: Design Concept. Each competition is organised once every year. The products, communication projects as well as design concepts and prototypes entered in the competition are evaluated by the Red Dot Jury consisting of specialists of different areas.
The award-winning designs are presented in the Red Dot Design Museums, in the online presentation and in the Red Dot Design Yearbook.
Kemppi in brief
Kemppi is the design leader in the arc welding industry. We are committed to boosting the quality and productivity of welding by continuous development of the welding arc and by working for a greener and more equal world. Kemppi supplies sustainable products, digital solutions, and services for professionals from industrial welding companies to single contractors. The usability and reliability of our products is our guiding principle. We operate with a highly skilled partner network covering over 70 countries to make its expertise locally available. Headquartered in Lahti, Finland, Kemppi employs close to 800 professionals in 16 countries and has a revenue of 195 MEUR in 2022.
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