JEC Group Composites, a leading composites manufacturer, has announced the 13 winners of the JEC Innovation Awards that recognise the best composite breakthroughs based on their technical interest, market potential, partnerships, financial & environmental impact, to be held from March 14 to 16, 2017, at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, France.
This year, the submissions for the Innovation Awards programme were impressive, both in quantity and diversity, and more importantly in quality.JEC Group Composites, a leading composites manufacturer, has announced the 13 winners of the JEC Innovation Awards that recognise the best composite breakthroughs based on their technical interest, market potential, partnerships, financial & environmental impact, to be held from March 14 to 16, 2017, at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition centre, France.#
Just as last year, a high number of submissions came from the automotive industry, thus perfectly illustrating the current market trends. Process improvement was also one of the most represented themes, highlighting the importance of cycle time reduction. With 13 categories ranging from raw materials to process, to applications in various fields such as aeronautics, automotive, construction, marine and better living, the winning projects offer a complete overview of the composite value chain, and the many future opportunities that are still to be taken in the field of composites.
The winners are Aeronautics – IHI Corporation (Japan) Innovative composite fan system for aero-engines; Automotive, Structural – Forward Engineering GmbH (Germany); T-RTM Automotive, Exterior – LG Hausys (South Korea); One-piece roof rack; construction – ACCIONA Construcción SA (Spain); Innovative composite panels, an alternative to steel and concrete for high-speed railway tunnel construction Process – IRT M2P (France); Fast RTM; Manufacturing – Voith Composites GmbH & Co. KG (Germany); Voith Roving Applicator sustainability – Faurecia (France); NAFILite microcellular foamed material; Marine – VABO Composites (the Netherlands); “Plug-and-play” composite ship door 3D Printing – +LAB - Politecnico di Milano University (Italy); Smart manufacturing of continuous-fibre composites: Atropos SOFTWARE – e-Xstream (Luxembourg); Digimat AM SPORTS – Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF) (Germany); Recurve bow riser Raw Materials – Covestro Deutschland AG (Germany); Desmocomp – a novel solution for composites Better Living – Brødrene AA (Norway); and Vision of the Fjords, Ship of the Year 2016 in Norway.
Frédérique Mutel, JEC Group president and CEO said, “Manufacturing processes for large series are growing in importance this year. This movement is expected to trigger a more massive use of composites. Therefore, we could see a change of scale in our industry, particularly in certain mass production sectors such as the automotive sector, for example, where the supply chain is reconfiguring through mergers and acquisitions, the upstream integration of automotive suppliers and the downstream integration of raw materials producers.” (GK)
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