About Perseverance and Winning

© Messe Frankfurt / Jean-Luc Valentin

© Messe Frankfurt / Jean-Luc Valentin

© Messe Frankfurt / Jean-Luc Valentin

Wolfgang Hassa can tell you a thing or two about defeats, setbacks and failures. Like many imaginative, optimistic and innovative entrepreneurs. But while many give up in frustration, the head and owner of Reinraum-Mieten has learned one thing above all in the course of his thrilling professional career: Only those who persevere can reach their goal. Now, after years of striving for recognition in the dynamic cleanroom market, Wolfgang Hassa has won the Cleanzone Award 2022.

As Victor Hugo once said, "Nothing is stronger than an idea whose time has come." Wolfgang Hassa knew from the start that the idea was a great one. But the market was not yet ready for mobile, textile, freely configurable and, above all, rentable cleanrooms. And so the first presentation of the concept at Cleanzone fair, at that time still as a purchase variant, was almost smiled at a little in 2018. Cleanrooms, that had to be something solid, firm, reliable, stable and above all durable. After all, a cleanroom is about something: cleanliness and safety, which, according to the majority's pre-judgment at the time, can by no means be guaranteed in a "tent".

So, with articles in the press, visits to customers, countless conversations, presentations and videos, patient educational work had to be done to advance the idea. Gradually, the realization filtered through that individually configurable cleanrooms with a flexible period of use under full cost control offer considerable economic and organizational advantages. Not to mention the flexibility and functional convertibility.

On the occasion of Cleanzone 2022 in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Hassa presented his transformed concept coherently and demonstrated it in situ - and convinced both the jury and the audience. The Cleanzone Award 2022 went to ... Reinraum-Mieten. Of the eleven applications submitted for this innovation award, five had made it through to nomination and were presented to a broad audience on the two days of the trade show, the majority of whom, like the expert jury, opted for the concept of temporary, rentable cleanrooms.