Innovation Award

AVK Innovation Award 2025

The application round for 2025 starts in January.

The AVK awards prizes for the best innovations in the field of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) / composites

The categories:

– Innovative products/applications

– Innovative procedures/processes

– Research and science

One aim of the Innovation Award is to promote new products/components and applications made of fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) and to promote new methods and processes for manufacturing these FRP products. Another prize is awarded to universities, colleges and institutes for outstanding scientific work in research and science. In all categories, special emphasis is placed on the topic of “sustainability”.

A further aim is to honor the innovations and the companies/institutions behind them and thus present the performance of the entire composites industry to the public. The entries will be judged by a high-caliber jury of experts from the composites sector.

The award ceremony will take place on October 21, 2025 during the JEC Forum DACH in Dresden (October 21-22, 2025).


The Innovation Award jury

NameFirma
Austermann, Vera

Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV)

Lettl, Gerhard

C.F. Maier Europlast GmbH & Co KG

Lorenz, Reinhard

Laboratory for Plastics Technology, FH Münster

Ridzewski, Prof. Jens

IMA Materials Research and Application Technology GmbH

Strohhäcker, Jörg

Hexagon Purus GmbH

Vink, David

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