The sports science graduate and ex-triathlete has developed a total of nine different training programmes for the BINDER24 app – three each in the Beginner, Advanced and Professional categories.

The sessions are quite varied, and always start with a warm-up and end with a cool-down.

The exercises make use of various swimming aids such as pull-buoys, boards, fins or paddles. In between, there are active recovery phases, which one can use for casual swim, for example. BINDER will initially release one programme from each of the three categories; the remaining training modules will then follow at intervals of two months.

“We’re delighted that Matthias Knossalla has enhanced the BINDER24 app with his training tips. Everyone can learn a lot from his knowledge as an athlete, trainer and coach,” says Managing Director Felix Binder about the new programme content.

As a competitor, Matthias Knossalla was, among other things, German duathlon second-place champion and finished second three times in the Ironman 70.3^® and Challenge^®races.

As a trainer and coach, his tasks include getting his athletes fit for the Ironman triathlon in Hawaii and helping them to achieve personal best times.

One important project with regard to climate protection and sustainability is the photovoltaic system on the roof of the production building, which supplies 100 percent green electricity for production and administration. The e-filling station is another: in addition to the company’s own vehicles, employees and customers can also charge their cars here. In future, BINDER will equip its company fleet with exclusively electric vehicles. Another climate-friendly action was the switch to energy-saving light bulbs in administration and production – a change that was made years ago.

The careful use of natural resources is also close to BINDER’s heart: that’s why the company uses reusable packaging in many areas, which BINDER returns after receiving the goods for the next delivery and which are then used again. BINDER has already spared large amounts of packaging material by means of this process.

The expansion of production capacities is another area of note; this became necessary due to the high demand for the turbine swimming system. BINDER planned the new company buildings according to the latest insights into energy efficiency.

Incidentally, the turbine swimming systems themselves are also true energy savers, as they consume only 15% of electrical energy compared to pump-driven counter-current systems (using the BGA 160 as an example) for the same flow rate. When manufacturing its products, BINDER also uses only high-quality components that have a long service life and are recyclable to a large degree. This reduces the consumption of resources even further.