JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #103 - March 2016 - 3

End-users are central
to the composites market

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Frédérique Mutel

JEC President & CEO

The composite industry has conquered
new territories with a strong technical background. The technological
dimension still remains one of the
sector's main assets, but it turns out
that dialogue with end customers is also
essential.

from the medical and consumer-goods
sectors.

In a major move, end-users are now
the focus of interest. It started with a
material exhibition called "Journées
Européennes des Composites" featuring mostly resins and fibres, and now
The conquest was based on global
it is the industry making the show with
economic development and higher
21st-century composite products. This
penetration into key markets. In the
new century is characterized by new
two decades from 1996 to 2016, the
concepts, new designs, new shapes
global composites market (including
and new textures, and JEC World is
final parts processing) grew at 5% per
showing just how. The main difference
year in value, reaching 61 billion euros is in who exhibits and who visits. In
in 2015. It is forecast to reach 83 billion the early days, the exhibitors were raw
euros in 2020. In volume, the sector's
materials producers, and the visitors
production grew fourfold during that
were manufacturers who came to buy
same period, from 4 to 12 million
raw materials. Now, raw material and
metric tons. It could rise to 15 million
part manufacturers are exhibiting their
metric tons by 2020.
expertise, and the visitors are end-users
from all markets on the lookout for
This growth relies on the strength of
composite solutions.
industrial innovation - the dynamism
of which is reflected by the number
This year, JEC World has been given a
of applications submitted to our Paris
new format that focuses on end-users.
Innovation Awards Programme. We
Four new spaces, called "Planets", invite
had an incredible range of projects
visitors to indulge their curiosity and
presented this year. An exceptionally
explore the future in the Aerospace
high number of submissions came
Planet, Automotive Planet, Sustainable
from the automotive industry, perfectly Planet and Sports Planet. Each Planet
underlining the current market trends. features a gallery of products, artworks,
Mobility and sustainability were also
an Agora for discussion, and networmajor themes, with a focus on public
king breaks. JEC World 2016 will be the
transportation and greener processes
place where innovative minds can find
and materials. The competition's new
even more diverse - and often unexpecComposites for Better Living category ted - perspectives on composites and
has received some strong proposals
share their discoveries with others.
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