ICIS reveals its Innovation Award winner is specialty chemical company, Evonik, for its sustainable rhamnolipid product Rewoferm RL. The ICIS award recognizes companies that show high levels of innovation in products and processes, as well as in digital innovation while benefitting the environment and advancing progress toward sustainability. Judges from sponsoring companies BASF, Accenture, Barentz and Deloitte Consulting together with NNFCC and ICIS reportedly reviewed over 75 entries for six innovation categories.
The winners are:
- Best digital innovation from a large company: Eastman Chemical - Fluid Genius - digital innovation for heat transfer fluid management
- Best digital innovation from a small-to-medium sized enterprise (SME): Electric Ant Lab - digital R&D offering that complements wet lab research
- Best process innovation from a large company: Clariant Catalysts and Technip Energies -reducing carbon footprint and enhancing operation in steam reforming with Earth.
- Best process innovation from an SME: GreeNovel – a process for contaminated plastics recycling and metals extraction from e-waste using a developed chemical agent and microwave
- Best product innovation from a large company: Evonik Operations - Rewoferm RL 100, a sustainable product “revolutionizing” the laundry detergent market
- Best product innovation from an SME: Genomatica – a new plant-based nylon-6 to slash GHGs from textiles, films and plastics that is advancing toward commercialization
ICIS chemical business deputy editor, Will Beacham, who chairs the judging panel, says in a press release from the organization, "With the global economy in turmoil, and the path to zero carbon high on the agenda, innovation has become even more important as a way to secure the planet and chemical industry's future. The ICIS Innovation Awards allows us to celebrate the industry's contribution to a sustainable future."
Read the press release at: www.icisevents.com/ehome/innovationawards
