JEC Group Unveils Winners of Innovation Awards at JEC World 2019

Thursday, 14th March 2019

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On the international stage of JEC World, composite innovation is everywhere! On the planets, on the live demo zones, on the stands, and also on stage. During the second day of the world’s largest composites exhibition, the winners of the JEC Innovation Awards were announced.

JEC Innovation Awards celebrate the fruitful cooperation between players of the composite community. Over the past 15 years, the JEC Innovation Awards have brought in 1,800 companies worldwide. 177 companies and 433 partners have been rewarded for the excellence of their composite innovations. The JEC Innovation Awards reward composites champions, based on criteria such as partner involvement in the value chain, technicality or commercial applications of innovations.

The ceremony was opened by Bertrand Piccard, the founder and visionary behind Solar Impulse, the first zero-fuel aircraft with perpetual autonomy.

The jury then announced the ten composite innovation champions selected among 30 finalists, from more than a hundred entries, and the public awarded its prize.

“JEC Group supports innovation and has created the Composites Reference Prize to reward industry champions and promote their innovations. Every year, we receive more than a hundred applications from all over the world,” explains Franck Glowacz, Composites Expert at JEC Group.

A Prestigious International Jury

Anurag Bansal, Manager Global Business Development, ACCIONA Infraestructuras
Christophe Binetruy, Professor, EC Nantes
Robert Buchinger, CEO, Sunlumo Technology
Grahame Burrow, Global President, MAGNA EXTERIORS
Dominique Dubois, CEO, Carboman Group
Karl-Heinz Fueller, Manager Hybrid Materials, Concepts and AMG, DAIMLER
Sung Ha, Professor, Hanyang University
Murat Oguz Arcan, COO, Composites, Construction and Business Development, KORDSA
Henri Shin, Director – R&D Composites Innovation Centre, KOLON
Kiyoshi Uzawa, Professor/Director (Ph.D), Innovative Composite Centre

The 11 winners awarded include:

Aerospace application: Herone – injection forming of gears on CF-PAEK drive shafts
Aerospace process: Profactor – zero-defect manufacturing process
Automotive application: Polyscope Polymers – composite guide for a roller-blind sunroof
Automotive process: Evopro Systems Engineering – fast manufacturing of complex TP composites
Construction and infrastructure: Arkema – bendable TP composite reinforcements for concrete
Sustainability: Technical University of Denmark – Bio4self, self-reinforced PLA composites
Sports and healthcare: KTM-Technologies – FMC for the KTM carbon skid plate
3D printing: Continuous Composites – continuous-fibre 3D printing
Land transportation: Stratiforme Industries – ACCUM: universal composite catenary cantilever
Industry and equipment: AZL Aachen – ultra-fast consolidator machine system
Public prize: Cecence – fully FST compliant 16g composite aero seatback