Awards
Awards are presented to entrants with innovative and new technologies that address areas of critical importance to the composites and advanced materials industry from business, applications, and research perspectives. The 2023 award program is now open.
Submission deadline: July 13, 2023
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. The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA), host to the long-standing awards program, will present six awards in three categories at CAMX. Categories include: Design, Manufacturing, and Market Growth.
The ACE Award provides industry recognition and prestige to deserving and groundbreaking industry work.
These awards are sponsored by Composites One.
Outstanding Tech Paper Winners 2022
Every year, CAMX recognizes outstanding research that will impact the next generation of composites innovation. CAMX technical papers cover critical areas that are important to the composites and advanced materials industry from business, applications, and research perspectives. Congratulations to this year’s winners:
- Natural Fiber Composites with Enhanced Impact-Damage Resistance Via Bioinspired Helicoid Fiber Architectures
- Lorenzo Mencattelli,Jia Long Liu, Ping Yee Chua, Van Pham Nguyen Hong, Vincent B C Tan, Tong-Earn
- Effects of Mechanical Recycling on Carbon Fiber-Based Hybrid Composites
- Mitchell L. Rencheck, Vipin Kumar, Halil Tekinalp, Vinit Chaudhary, Samarthya Bhagia, Vlastimil Kunc, Soydan Ozcan, Brian Knouff, Uday Vaidya, and Patrick Blanchard
- Design and Fabrication of an Energy Absorbing Hybrid S-Glass/Epoxy Composite Laminate with Shear Thickening Fluid Infused Fabrics for Impact Applications
- Erik A. Hobbs, Richard D. Dombrowski, Norman Wagner, Bazle Haque
- Large Scale Polymer Additive Manufacturing of Lightweight Foam Structures
- Tyler Smith, Vipin Kumar, Vidya Kishore, Katie Copenhaver, John Lindahl, Vlastimil Kunc
- Through Transmission Laser Welding of PPS and PEI Continuous Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
- Jeff L. Ellis, Miranda Marcus, Matt A. Nitsch
- Influence of Process Conditions on the Extrudate and Inter-Bead Geometries in Extrusion Deposition Additive Manufacturing
- Pasita Pibulchinda, Eduardo Barocio, Anthony J. Favaloro, R. Byron Pipes