RTE Innovation Awards
RadTech Europe recently announced the 2011 winners of the RTE Innovation Award and the Paul Dufour award at its bienniel RTE Conference & Exhibition held in Basel (Switzerland) 18th- 20th October 2011.
Innovation Award 2011
On behalf of the RTE Marketing Committee, DELO has been rewarded for the innovation award with their entry. Wilfried Grob (BASF) as chairman of the marketing committee handed over the award to Mr. Dietmar Dengler from DELO. For more information please see the RTE e-zine November issue (members only). Pictures will follow shorlty.
More information on the Innovation Awards 2009
Paul Dufour Award
The Paul Dufour Award, considered a UV/EB curing industry standard of excellence since it was first presented in 2003, is bestowed upon the most innovative of the papers presented at the biennial RTE Conference, which focuses on the impact of new materials and curing equipment on cutting edge and existing market applications. These papers, usually numbering well over a hundred, cover various aspects of UV/EB curing technology and coatings applications and are routinely of the highest scientific and technical standards. The following papers have been awarded with this price:
- 2011: Cytec, Guido Vanmeulder, paper on Field applied UV curable coatings for flooring
- 2009: IOM Leibniz-institut für Oberflachenmodifizierung, Dr. Tom Scherzer, paper on continuous monitoring of process parameters in UV curing processes
- 2007: Bayer MaterialScience AG, Jan Weikard, Erhard Luehmann, Stefan Sommer, paper on Waterborne UV Coatings for plastics