The winners of the JEC Composites Innovation Awards

The next edition of JEC World, the world’s leading trade fair for the composites industry, will take place in Paris from 10 to 12 March. In the meantime, the organisers have announced the winners of the JEC Composites Innovation Awards. Each year, the JEC Composites Innovation Awards recognize collaborative, innovative, and ambitious projects that showcase the potential of composite materials. Established in 1998, this leading program aims to identify, promote, and reward the most innovative composite solutions worldwide. Over the past 28 years, the JEC Composites Innovation Awards have seen more than 2,200 participating companies from around the globe. A total of 269 companies and 811 partner companies have been recognized for the excellence of their innovations. The competition is open to companies, universities, or R&D centers with a promising concept or collaborative innovation to present. The JEC Composites Innovation Awards also offer a leading international platform, allowing selected innovations to benefit from increased visibility among a professional audience attentive to new trends in composites.

For this edition, 154 applications were submitted, of which 33 finalists were selected, and a winner was chosen in each of the 11 categories by a jury of international experts representing the entire composites value chain. Here are the winners in each category: Highly Loaded TP Wing Rib, Daher (France), category: Aerospace – Parts; Sauber 4.0 – Smart & Sustainable RTM 4.0, CTC (an Airbus Company) (Germany), category: Aerospace – Process; BMW M Natural Fiber Composites, BMW Group (Germany), category: Automotive & Road Transportation – Parts; Plastic EV battery housing for mass production, University of Technology Chemnitz (Germany), category: Automotive & Road Transportation – Process; Recycling A380 secondary structure for A320 NEO, Toray Advanced Composites (The Netherlands), category: Circularity & Recycling; Digital Thread Innovations for Aerospace & Defence, The University of Southern Queensland (Australia), category: Digital, AI & Data; CoPropel - How to Minimize Fuel Consumption, Loiretech Ingénierie (France), category: Maritime Transportation & Shipbuilding; LeiWaCo - Lightweight tank for liquid hydrogen, CTC (an Airbus Company) (Germany), category: Pipes, Tanks & Hydrogen; Composite Twin-Track Cantilever, Composite Braiding (UK), category: Railway Vehicles & Infrastructure; Composite PV Module for Vehicles, Metyx (Turkey), category: Renewable Energies; Lifecycle: A repairable road bike, fenix composites (Germany), category:  Sports, Leisure & Recreation.