Honoring the Best of the Composite Industry at JEC Chicago 2019

Photos courtesy of Nelly Baron, Communication and Marketing Director, JEC Group

The composites industry has a wide-ranging set of applications for other fields of work, and these uses were discussed at the JEC Chicago Forum this week.

The two day conference concluded yesterday but not before 201 delegates attended, 400 professional visits were made, 490 business meetings took place, according to the organization.

For the fifteenth time, the JEC Innovation awards were held. Winners by category this year were:

Mobility: KTM-Technologies GmbH– Austria

Building: Gazechim Composites Iberica– Spain

Automotive: Surface Generation– United Kingdom

Infrastructure: Carbo-Link AG– Switzerland

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