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Categories
To recognise the breadth of innovation in the chemical sector, ICIS Innovation Awards are given in five categories, as detailed below.
As well as a winner in each category, ICIS selects an overall winner each year, chosen from the four category winners.
Full details on the winners can be found here
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Best innovation by a Small or Medium- sized Enterprise / Overall Winner
The Best Innovation by a SME category gives SMEs, that great source and reservoir of innovation, a chance to shine.
This year’s winner:
Qpinch - Breakthrough Chemical Heat Pump
for Petrochemicals – A game changer for decarbonization efforts
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Best Product Innovation
Sponsored by: Accenture
The Best Product Innovation category highlights products
that represent the next step in the chemicals industry by focussing on new
offerings from companies at the cutting edge of the industry.
This year’s winner:
Clariant - From Natural Waste to High
Performing Wax Solutions
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The Best Process Innovation category gives entrants a chance
to show how innovative they are in the fundamental areas of new process
development and process improvement – vital areas of innovation underlying
better use of energy and raw materials, improved economics, safer performance
and lower environmental impact.
This year’s winner:
Dow Chemical Company - New LP Oxo INA
Technology
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Product with Best Benefit to the Environment and Sustainability
NEW FOR 2020
Sponsored by: Maroon Group
This category is designed to recognise those companies that have incorporated the ideas of environmental performance and sustainability into their innovation in the areas of. They should show a distinct benefit to the environment and to the sustainability of the company and its customers.
This year’s winner:
Corteva Agriscience - Loyant™ herbicide
with Rinskor™ active
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Process with Best Benefit to the Environment and Sustainability
NEW FOR 2020
Sponsored by: Deloitte
In 2019’s awards the sustainability categories were so popular we decided to split them into two, the new category representing the process innovations so many companies are focussing on in today’s market.
This year’s winner:
Clariant / Casale - AmoMax®-Casale
