The Service and Bicycle Association (VSF) honored the pioneering Swiss company for its "historic overall achievement", as Chairman Albert Herresthal said in his laudatory speech. Founded in 1985, the VSF is an independent trade association for the bicycle industry with 300 members, which awards the Ethics Prize every two years at the "Vivavelo Congress".

The Huttwil-based company develops and assembles its e-bikes under the Flyer brand name entirely in Switzerland. The company headquarters with its production halls of around 20,000 square meters was built according to the latest environmental standards, including a photovoltaic system on the roof, hot water from solar thermal energy and heating by means of a heat pump via a geothermal probe. "Biketec has always seen the e-bike as part of an ecological orientation," Herresthal continued, explaining why the company was awarded the ethics prize. The fact that it produces in a high-wage country like Switzerland is also "not a matter of course".The association awards its Ethics Prize to players in the bicycle industry who are committed to people and bikes beyond commercial interests. For Biketec co-founder Kurt Schär, who recently handed over operational management to Simon Lehmann, the award is a "wonderful acknowledgement for our team, which fills me with pride and gratitude." The Ernst Göhner Foundation recently acquired a majority shareholding in order to ride the company into the future in the founders' spirit in the highly competitive electric bike market.

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