VCA member a winner of European innovation award
Vinyl Council of Australia member, Chemson Pacific Pty Ltd has taken home the 2016 INOVYN Gold Award for Innovation with Vinyls for its project to formulate and engineer 3-D vinyl to be used as a cost effective and sustainable raw material in 3-D printing.
Chemson's project was researched and conducted in Australia and launched at our conference, PVC AUS 2016, in May. 3-D VinylTM compound has global application.
Managing Director of Chemson Pacific, Greg Harrison, on receiving the award at a special ceremony held at ‘K2016’, Europe's flagship fair of the plastics and rubber industries, said: “It's really an honour to have won this award and to be recognised by INOVYN for our contribution to PVC. We have a great belief in sustainability. We believe that we will now take PVC into the new world of Advanced Manufacturing. It's definitely an opportunity for us, and it's a sustainable opportunity.”
INOVYN Awards judge Dr. Keith Watkinson commented on 3-D VinylTM saying “This development opens up many exciting opportunities for PVC in additive manufacturing. The unique properties of UV and fire resistance will permit many new products to be created.”
Chemson Pacific was a founding member of the Vinyl Council of Ausutralia in 1998 and has been a signatory to the PVC Stewardship Program in Australia since it began in 2002. Based at Eastern Creek, NSW the company manufactures stabilisers for the local PVC manufacturing industry.
The INOVYN Awards 2016 attracted entrants from around the world including manufacturers; distributors; product specifiers; architects and designers; students; academics and research organisations. More than 70 projects were competing for the top accolades in three award categories: Innovation; Sustainability; and Industrial Design.
Winner of the ‘Sustainability’ category was UK-based Axion Consulting for its RecoMed PVC take-back scheme that recycles PVC used in healthcare. This scheme was initiated and developed after learning of the PVC Recycling in Hospitals program the Vinyl Council had initiated in Australia.
The winners in each award category were selected by an independent panel of expert judges comprised leading figures from the world of sustainable development; materials science; life-cycle assessment; industrial design and architecture; and the media. For more information visit https://www.inovyn.com/news/inovyn-awards-2016--winners-highlight-continued-diversity-of-innovation-with-vinyls/
K2016 is being held in Düsseldorf (Germany) until 26 October 2016.
