Awards for Composites Excellence (ACE), a prestigious composites industry competition, recognizes outstanding achievement and innovation in technology, manufacturing and product development.

AWARD CATEGORIES

ACE recognizes the best submissions in three categories: design, manufacturing, and market growth. Each year, six awards are bestowed annually at CAMX – The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo


DESIGN CATEGORY
The Awards for Composites Excellence (ACE) recognizes outstanding design innovations with two awards.

Innovation in Green Composites Design

This award is presented to the composites product that best exemplifies innovation that lowers or minimizes the environmental footprint or offers an attractive life cycle assessment (LCA) of the product.

Most Creative Application

This award is presented to the composites product that showcases composites use in a unique, new application or uses composites’ attributes in imaginative, innovative, or artistic ways.


MANUFACTURING CATEGORY
The Awards for Composites Excellence (ACE) recognizes outstanding manufacturing innovations with two awards.

Equipment and Tooling Innovation

This award is presented to the equipment, tooling, production aid, or software that is designed to improve manufacturing production, environmental sustainability, or product quality and performance in composites manufacturing.

Material and Process Innovation

This award is presented for a material or process that best contributes to efficient manufacturing and product sustainability.


MARKET GROWTH CATEGORY
The Awards for Composites Excellence (ACE) recognizes outstanding market growth innovations with two awards.

Composites Sustainability

This award is presented to the composites product that clearly demonstrates an improvement in the environmental impact of the products use.

Infinite Possibility for Market Growth

This award is presented to the composites product that demonstrates the potential to significantly increase the use of composites in existing markets or generate the greatest impact to open new and emerging markets for composites.

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