Congratulations to the 2023 Winners!

Best Digital Innovation from a Large Company - Joint Winners

Evonik Operations GmbH: COATINO® Defect Detection

- Quantifying coating defects by using advanced image recognition methods

 DOW: DOW™ Paint Vision: Shaping the Modern Digital Lab for Paint Formulation

Finalists

Sewage & recycled water networks Dubai Municipality: Development of Fog Watch - a digital platform to manage fat, oil and grease waste

Fatima Fertilizer Company: Sarsabz Pakistan (Fatima Fertilizers Farmer Application)
Fatima Fertilizer Company: Sarsabz Asaan (Fatima Fertilizers Dealers App)

Best Process Innovation
from a Large Company

UPM Biochemicals is part of UPM The Biofore Company: UPM Biochemicals: Future beyond fossils

Finalists:

Nouri Petrochemical Company, PGPIC: Diagnosis, optimization, and compromising the bottlenecks of the benzene extraction process by designing an innovative tower's internal

Wanhua Chemical Group Co.,Ltd.: Methylen Diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI) by-product amine-containing waste brine recycling technology

Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd.: Automatic continuous formaldehyde-free adhesive spray plywood panel process

PPG: PPG Zero Discharge Project
INDORAMA VENTURES: Optimization of cycle reaction propoxylation process time

Best Process Innovation
from an SME

Botanical Solution Inc: Growing & extracting from plants in-the-lab to produce new fungicides for agriculture and QS-21 vaccine adjuvants for human health

Finalists:

LanzaTech: Pollution to products

AmSty: Innovative PolyRenew® circularity solution for accelerating plastics recycling

Origin Materials: Origin Materials

GDB Paint & Coatings: Making every drop count: GDB's commitment towards a net-zero waste paint industry

Best Product Innovation
from a Large Company

Arkema: Recycling of monomaterial shoe

Finalists:

Dow: DEXCARE™ CD-1 Polymer: Boost your shampoo’s conditioning effectiveness with Dow’s renewable, bio-derived deposition aid

Dow Chemical: EcoSense™ GL-60 HA/HL Surfactants: Novel sustainable bio-surfactants for personal care rinse-off and leave-on applications

Celanese International Corp: Achieve even lower carbon footprint with Santoprene® ECO-R Series TPV products

Corteva Agriscience: A modern nematicide with soil health benefits: Salibro™ Nematicide with Reklemel™ Active from Corteva Agriscience 

Best Product Innovation
from an SME

Viridis Chemical Company: Viridis Chemical Company - Commercial Scale Bio-based Ethyl Acetate with Lower GHG Emissions

Finalists:

ECO GLAS Environmental Limited: Septic Tank Smart Box

Locus Ingredients: Leading the charge: Optimizing sophorolipids for real-world applications

LanzaTech: CarbonSmart ethylene from CO2

Oberon Fuels: Decarbonizing the global LPG industry, with new, negative-CI ingredient