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Awards for Composites Excellence

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

Award Categories

ACMA, host to the long-standing awards program, presents five awards in three categories at the annual CAMX - The Composites and Advanced Materials Expo.

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1. Design Category

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

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Large Scale 3D Printing Using 100% Bio-Composite Materials
Oak Ride National Library

Innovation in Green Composites Design Award

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


The 2017 Winner is Large Scale 3D Printing Using 100% Bio-Composite Materials, by Oak Ridge National Laboratory.



Most Creative Application Award

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.



2. Manufacturing Category

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

Equipment and Tooling Innovation Award

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 Award

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



3. Market Growth Category

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

Composite Sustainability Award

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 Award

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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