ITMA Future Materials Awards Finalists announced
The list of the finalists in all categories of the ITMA Future Materials Award is as follows:
Best Start-up Company
Orange Fiber srl
Penn Textile Solutions GmbH
Team MultiFun
ViDi Systems
Wearable Life Science GmbH
Most Innovative Large Size Company
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
Milliken & Company
Most Innovative Medium Size Company
Cotton Incorporated
Europlasma
Polartec
Most Innovative Small Size Company
TissueGen Elizabeth Whelan Design
FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co KG
Kraig Biocraft laboratories
Sensoria Inc.
TissueGen Inc.
Groundbreaking Partnership Development
Coolcore
druckprozess GmbH & Co. KG
Viz Reflectives
Best Innovation – Building and Construction
Cotton Incorporated
Milliken & Company
Moya Power
Solvay Specialty Polymers
Best Innovation – Clothing textiles
Bayer MaterialScience AG (from 1st of September called COVESTRO AG)
KOTERI
Polartec, LLC
Sensoria Inc.
TEXLAB-SOLU
ViDi Systems
Viz Reflectives
Best Innovation – Home Textiles
CEA/LETI
Elizabeth Whelan Design
TORCITURA PADANA
Best Innovation – Industrial Textiles
FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co KG
PHP Fibers GmbH
University of Bolton
ViDi Systems
Best Innovation – Medical textiles
Empa
Hohenstein Institute
TissueGen Inc
ViDi Systems
Best Innovation – Mobile Textiles
druckprozess GmbH & Co. KG
PROCOTEX
Team MultiFun
TORCITURA PADANA
Best Innovation – Protective Textiles
Filidea
Klopman International
Kraig Biocraft laboratories
LeMur S.p.A.
TORCITURA PADANA
Viz Reflectives
Best Innovation – Sports Textiles
adidas AG
Archroma
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
Canterbury of New Zealand
Coolcore
Cotton Incorporated
Elizabeth Whelan Design
Europlasma
Polartec, LLC
ViDi Systems
Wearable Life Science GmbH
Best Innovation – Sustainable textiles (process)
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
Cotton Incorporated
DyeCoo
Kraig Biocraft laboratories
Orange Fiber srl
SEPAREX
Team MultiFun
Best Innovation – Sustainable texitles (product)
adidas AG
CITEVE
cotton Incorporated
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
FR Safety Yarns GmbH & Co KG
Milliken & Company
Moya Power
PROCOTEX
Rhodia – Solvay Group
Schoeller Textil AG
Tonello
TORCITURA PADANA
Innovator of the year
Charlotte Slingsby, Moya Power
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
Dr. Dineshkumar Harursampath, NMCAD Laboratory,
Enrica Arena, Orange Fiber
Gary Smith, Polartec, LLC
Joseph Gallagher, Cohesive Systems LLC
Dr. Reto Wyss, ViDi Systems
Launch of the year
COVESTRO AG (formerly called Bayer MaterialScience)
Klopman International
PROCOTEX
Team MultiFun
Tonello
TORCITURA PADANA