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.
CAMX Award and ACE programs are are no longer accepting applications.
CAMX Awards
The flagship CAMX Award recognizes innovations that have the potential to significantly impact composites and advanced materials in the marketplace. The CAMX Award will be awarded to two game-changing entries that reflect the depth and breadth of the CAMX theme: Combined Strength. Unsurpassed Innovation. The CAMX Award provides industry recognition and prestige to deserving and groundbreaking industry work.
Combined Strength Award
This award is presented to the composites product that clearly demonstrates a team approach and effort that brings together knowledge, resources, and talent to produce an incredible example of the best use of composites materials that solve a problem.
Unsurpassed Innovation Award
This award is presented to the composites product that clearly demonstrates a novel design that incorporates low-cost materials for high-volume applications or high-performance applications with low-volume materials that delivers a product that is innovative and has the potential to significantly impact existing or open new markets.
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.
Design Category
Innovation in Green Composites Design Award
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 Award
This award is presented to the composites product that showcases composites in a new, unique application or uses composites attributes in an imaginative, innovative, or artistic way.
Market Growth Category
Composites Sustainability Award
This award is presented to the composites product that clearly demonstrates an improvement in the environmental impact of the product’s 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.
Manufacturing Category
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.
Poster Session
The Poster Session allows the next generation of researchers, engineers and industry professionals from universities and organizations around the globe to showcase their research and commercial applications of composites and advanced materials. Posters are displayed onsite and 3 entries are recognized for their research content and contributions, and poster creativity and design.
CAMX OUTSTANDING TECHNICAL PAPER AWARDS
Outstanding Technical Paper Awards will be presented to researchers who put together well-written, interesting and groundbreaking Technical Papers that have addressed critical areas of importance to the composites and advanced materials industry from business, applications, and research perspectives. Winning Technical Papers will be granted one complimentary full conference registration. All accepted technical papers are automatically considered for this award.
