JEC Innovation Awards 2011
JEC Composites is announcing the new winners of the JEC Innovation Awards Program 2011. This year, 14 companies and their partners will receive awards at the JEC Composites Show (March 29-31, 2011). The 2011 JEC Awards ceremony will take place on Tuesday March 29th at 5:00 pm on the JEC S Show and will be open to all visitors. The winners are:
Materials: Cray Valley (France): Intumescent resin and gelcoat meeting the highest fire railway standard
Bio-based d Materials: Innobat (France): A bio-sourced composite material for window frames
Thermoplastics : Cutting Dynamics, Inc. (CDDI) (USA): Thermoplastic seatbacks for the aerospace industry
Equipment: Advanced Composites Group Ltd. (UK): Carbovar technology for composite mould tools
Automation: Brötje-Automation GmbH (Germany): A fully-automatic machine to produce curved preforms in aircraft structures
Process: Sigmatex (UK): A novel offset weaving method to create a 3D woven generic nodal structure
Applications/Aeronautics: Latécoère (France): An innovative aircraft structure with advanced stitched preforms using an R RTM process
Applications/Automotive: Jacob Plastics GmbH (Germany): FIT Hybrid: a process for the production of composites hollow structures
Construction: 3B Fibreglass (Belgium): Inner lining for the covering surface for the new Sheraton Hotel at the Mila an Malpensa Airport
Civil Engineering: Acciona Infraestructuras S.A (Spain): A composite bridge beam
Applications/Sports and Leisure: NRG Wh heels Ltd (UK): New carbon/magnesium wheels for and high-performance vehicles
Transportation: Roelofs Kipperbouw BV (N Netherlands): A Composite tipper
Wind Energy: Gamesa Innovation & Technology (Spain): A new blade technology with a revolutionary, 100%-automated manufacturing process
Special JEC Magazine Price: MVC Componentes Plasticos LTDA (Brazil): Inner lining for the covering surface of the new passenger terminal at the Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay
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