ICIS Innovation Awards 2015 - entries now required

After a break of some time, I'm back to tell you about the ICIS Innovation Awards 2015.
This is the 12th year I've organised these awards, which seek to recognise and promote innovation in the chemical industry.
I'm looking for entries to be in by 26th June and hoping that as usual we will get some super innovations from large and small companies alike.
The Awards seek to recognise and reward companies that show high levels of innovation in products, processes and ways of doing business, as well as providing benefits to the environment and sustainability.
Winners will be those companies that have made significant steps forward in technological and business innovation, with tangible results emerging during 2014 and the early part of this year.
You can read all about last year's winners in a 16-page publication.
The Awards are open to companies around the world, reflecting ICIS's global coverage of the industry
ICIS is pleased to have Roland Berger Strategy Consultants as the overall sponsor again this year and to welcome back U.S. Chemicals as a category sponsor. We are also delighted to welcome ExxonMobil Chemical as a new category sponsor for 2015.
There are five innovation categories for you to choose from to enter, depending on the type of innovation and size of company.
They are:

• Best Product Innovation
  Sponsored by Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
• Best Process Innovation
  Open to sponsorship
• Best Innovation by a Small or Medium-Sized Enterprise (SME)
  Sponsored by ExxonMobil Chemical
• Best Business Innovation
  Open to sponsorship
• Innovation with Best Benefit to Environment or Sustainability
  Sponsored by U.S. Chemicals

You can see full details of the Awards at www.icis.com/awards, and learn a little more by watching these two short videos. I look forward to receiving your entry!

ICIS launches eighth Innovation Awards

At last - after weeks of preparation I can officially launch the ICIS Innovation Awards 2011. This annual competition, now in its eighth year, recognises outstanding technological and business innovation in the chemical industry.

Dow Corning is the overall lead sponsor for the Awards, as it has been from their inception in 2004. CRA returns as the sponsor of the Best Product Innovation category, and U.S Chemicals is again sponsor of the Innovation with Best Environmental Benefit category.

Joining the sponsors this year is global health, nutrition and materials major DSM, which is supporting the new category of Best Innovation for Sustainability.

The Innovation Awards continue to grow and gain industry support. We have added a new sponsor and new category this year and look forward to being able to highlight the very best of innovation in the industry later in the year.

There is tremendous effort and investment going into innovation in the chemical sector today, as companies seek answers to many of society’s global problems.

The Awards are open to entry from today, with a deadline for entries of 4 July 2011. The winners will be announced on 17 October.

For more information or to enter the awards, visit http://www.icis.com/awards