2011 winners

14 COMPANIES REWARDED FOR JEC PARIS 2011 INNOVATION AWARDS

• Category: Materials

Winner: Cray Valley (France)
Intumescent resin and gelcoat meeting the highest fire railway standard

• Category: Bio-based  Materials

Winner: Innobat (France)
A bio-sourced composite material for window frames

• Category: Thermopla astics

Winner: Cutting Dynamics, Inc. (CDDI) (USA)
Thermoplastic seatbacks for the aerospace industry

• Category: Equipment

Winner: Advanced Composites Group LLtd. (UK)
Carbovar technology for composite mould tools

• Category: Automation

Winner: Brötje-Automation GmbH (Gerrmany)
A fully-automatic machine to produce curved preforms in aircraft structures

• Category: Process

Winner: Sigmatex (UK)
A novel offset weaving method to create a 3D woven generic nodal structure

• Category: Applicationns/ Aeronautics

Winner: Latécoère (France)
An innovative aircraft structure with advanced stitched preforms using an RTM process

• Category: Applicationns/ Automotive

Winner: Jacob Plastics GmbH (Germany)
FIT Hybrid: a process for the p production of composites hollow structures

• Category: Construction

Winner: 3B Fibreglass (Belgium)
Inner lining for the covering surface for the new Sheraton Hotel at the Mila an Malpensa Airport

• Category: Civil Engin neering

Winner: Acciona Infraestructura as S.A (Spain)
A composite bridge beam

• Category: Applications/ Sports and Leisure

Winner: NRG Wh heels Ltd (UK)
New carbon/ magnesium wheels for and high-performance vehicles

• Category: Transportation

Winner: Roelofs Kipperbouw BV (Netherlands)
A Composite tipper

• Category: Wind Energy

Winner: GAMESA Innovation & Technology (Spain)
A new blade technology with a revolutionary, 100%-automated manufacturring process

• Category: Special JEC Magazine Price

Winner: MVC Compon nentes Plasticos LTDA (Brazil)
Inner lining for the covering surface of the new passenger terminal at the Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, Uruguay