JEC Forum DACH reveals Startup Booster, AVK Innovation award winners

JEC Forum DACH, launched by JEC Group (Paris, France) in partnership with AVK (Industrievereinigung Verstärkte Kunststoffe e.V., Frankfurt, Germany), the German Federation of Reinforced Plastics, has announced the winner of this year’s JEC Startup Booster competition as well as AVK Innovation Award first, second and third place winners. 

Five Startup Booster finalists pitched their innovations in front of the event’s jury of composites experts. After deliberation of the jury in a closed room, the winner is Carbocon (Dresden, Germany), is an independent service provider in the field of the innovative carbon-reinforced concrete building material. The company operates in different areas of business, ranging from civil engineering services to introducing new products and processes to the market. In this way, Carbocon seeks to advocate progress and sustainability in the building industry.

The AVK Innovation Awards support new products, components and applications made from fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) and promote new processes and methods for the manufacture of FRP products with a specific focus on sustainable solutions. Nine companies and projects were welcomed on stage during the event and awarded for breaking new grounds in the field of composites:

Products and Applications category

First place: “Insulating Coupling Shaft for Rail Vehicles” – Leichtbauzentrum Sachsen GmbH and partner KWD Kupplungswerk Dresden GmbH

Second place: “Electric Car Battery Housing Components Based on Innovative Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Phenolic Resin Composites” – SGL Carbon

Third place: “High-Performance Recycled Carbon Fiber Materials (HiPeR)” – Composites Technology Center GmbH (CTC GmbH) and partners Faserinstitut Bremen e. V, Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V., C.A.R. FiberTec GmbH; Faserinstitut Bremen e.V., Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V., C.A.R. FiberTec GmbH; CFRI Carbon Fiber Recycle Industry Co., Ltd.; IHI Logistics and Machinery Corp.; and ICC Kanazawa Institute of Technology

 

Innovative Processes and Methods category

First place: “Chopped Fiber Direct Processing (CFP)” – KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH and partner Wirthwein SE

Second place: “CIRC — Complete Inhouse Recycling of Thermoplastic Compounds” – Fraunhofer Institute for Production Engineering and Automation (IPA) and partners Schindler Handhabetechnik GmbH; and Vision & Control GmbH

Third place: “CarboScreen — Sensor-Based Monitoring of Carbon Fiber Production” – CarboScreen GmbH, and partner Institute of Textile Technology at RWTH Aachen University

 

Research and Science category

First place: “Development of a Stereocomplex PLA Blend on a Pilot Plant Scale” – Faserinstitut Bremen e. V.

Second place: “Fiber-Reinforced Salt as a Robust Lost Core Material” – Technical University of Munich, Chair of Carbon Composites and partners Apppex GmbH; and Haas Metallguss GmbH

Third place: “VliesSMC — Recycled Carbon Fibers with a Second Life in the SMC Process” – Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI) and partner Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical Technology (ICT).