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FEATURE JEC Asia Innovation Awards Programme 2009 JEC is announcing the new winners of the JEC Asia Innovation Awards Programme 2009. This year, 9 companies and their 15 partners will receive awards at the show. he programme was created in 1998 with the goal of promoting innovation. This top-level competition for Innovation is a focus of attention in the international composite market. Each year, a jury of renowned international experts chooses the best composite innovations, based on their technical interest, market potential, partnership, financial impact and originality. The 2009 jury is composed of 14 international composite experts: Alan Chen -Topkey Corporation (Taïwan), Ebrahim Ghavamshahidi (Umeco Composites United Kingdom), Peizhi Gu (China Composites Group Corp. - China), Frédérique Mutel (JEC – France), Drew Myers (Quickstep - Australia), Kanemasa Nomaguchi (JRPS International Exchanging Committee - Japan), Hariharan PV’s (AgroBiogenics - India), Murray Scott (CRC Composites - Australia), Dr A.Selvam (FRP Institute - India), Henry Shan (Cell Power Co., Ltd - Taïwan), Ravi Shrivastava (Kineco Pvt Ltd - India), Narasimalu Srikanth (Vestas - Singapore), Tong-Earn Tay (National University of Singapore Singapore) and Jung Seok Kim (Korea Railroad Research Institute - Korea). Since the last past 4 years, Umeco Composites (Official Partner) has been actively supporting the JEC Innovation Awards competition: “We work very closely with JEC and we have been supporting the JEC Innovation Awards for the last four years, not only in Europe but also in Asia. The industry has built its success on technical innovation and JEC is doing a fantastic job in promoting innovation for the industry; This is a great opportunity for engineers throughout the industry to collaborate and to gain recognition for the new ideas that they are promoting in terms of solutions for technical and commercial issues. We are very pleased to be an active supporter of these Innovation awards,”explains Andrew Moss, Chief Executive, Advanced Composites Group Ltd. - Umeco. These awards have also been supported by many prestigious companies such as C.A. Litzler, Cray Valley, Cytec Engineered Materials, Diatex, Dow, DSM Composite Resins, Hexcel, Huntsman Advanced Materials, Menzolit, Nanoledge, Owens Corning OCV Reinforcements, Polynt SpA, RocTool, Soficar – Groupe Toray, SGL Group, Ticona, Vestas and Virtek Aerospace. The decision to give prominence to the award projects was based on their atypical nature and various noteworthy aspects. Read through the trade description to discover the 9 winners. T Winner “Environment & Recycling” >> A brand new environment-friendly surfboard, using renewable cellulose reinforcements Cobra International Co., Ltd (Thaïland) Partner: Porcher Industries (France) Cobra International launches a brand new environmentfriendly surfboard, using renewable Greenlite reinforcements developed by Porcher Industries. In this application, standard glass-fibre reinforcement is replaced with Greenlite material, a new generation of highperformance renewable reinforcement. The parts concerned are surfboards, windsurf boards, kite boards and wake boards. Greenlite uses pure cellulose fibres to replace glass fibres.The new material constitutes a significant advance, since the other bio-based solutions considered did not offer the required quality, reproducibility and strength. Greenlite material is biodegradable and highly compatible with bio-based resins, making it suitable for the production of 100%-bio-based composites on a large scale. Greenlite reinforcements are already available in various styles at the industrial scale for a wide range of composite applications, including summer and winter boards. The new material is processed using standard equip-ment, with no modification of the existing technology. The new reinforcement has a unique whiteness and a positive effect on final part surface quality, thus improving aspect and minimizing subsequent rework. The final surfboards offer excellent surface finish, no weight increase, and very good performance. jec composites magazine / No52 October 2009

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