Bookmark 02-14-2011

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