In the middle of the Rhineland carnival strongholds with Bonn, Cologne and Dusseldorf lays the CeramTec location Lohmar, where on the one hand carnival is celebrated and on the other hand the ceramic expertise comes into play in the production of the carnival decorations of the Rhein-Sieg district. In the best tradition, CeramTec expert Matthias Swerbinka, this year with the support of his colleague Thomas Skibbe, has been manufacturing different carnival medals in Lohmar for over 30 years. For this purpose, the negative form of the medal and the clay are delivered to Lohmar, where the clay blanks are shaped and fired in the CeramTec kilns. They are then hand-painted in the workshops of the GVP Bonn-Rhein-Sieg gGmbH, a workshop for people with disabilities. Hundreds of unique medals are created in countless hours of manual work to honor the carnival royals.