IACMI members were recognized with multiple awards at the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo this year, including the top two. These spotlight game-changing innovations, manufacturing breakthroughs, and collaborative teamwork in composites. 

We want to give a special congratulations for:

CAMX Combined Strength Award: “Advanced Composite Formwork for Accelerated High-Precision Nuclear Infrastructure” Oak Ridge National Laboratory‘s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility (MDF), U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)‘s U.S. Department of Energy Office of Critical Minerals and Energy Innovation, Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office (AMMTO), Kairos Power, Advanced Manufacturing Center, University of Maine, BARNARD CONSTRUCTION INC, Airtech Advanced Materials Group, JuggerBot 3D LLC, Additive Engineering Solutions, Haddy Designs

CAMX Unsurpassed Innovation Award: “Aligned Recycled Carbon Fiber Delivering High-Performance Composites at Industrial Scale” James Cropper Advanced Materials and Carbon Fiber Recycling

ACE Design Category Environmental Impact Design Award: “NLR Recyclable Resin for Next-Generation Composite Manufacturing” National Laboratory of the Rockies

ACE Manufacturing Category Equipment and Tooling Innovation: “Novel Water-Soluble Large Format Additive Manufacturing Mandrels Enabling Type V Gas Storage Tanks” ORNL, DOE, AMMTO, JuggerBot3D, Infinite Composites, and Oklahoma State University

ACE Manufacturing Category Material and Process Innovation: “Fatigue Resistant, Lightweight Composites through the use of Nano-modified Resins” 3M and Norplex-Micarta

ACE Market Growth Category Infinite Possibility for Market Growth: “Disaster-Resilient and Non-Corrosive FRP Coastal Residential Building Systems” Frost Engineering & Consulting, Northstar Technologies, Inc., Strongwell

ACE Market Growth Category The Hannah Henry Market Application of Sustainable Composites: “Advanced Recyclable Composite with Dynamic Fiber–Matrix Bonding” Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

These awards are driving commercial adoption across aerospace, automotive, energy, and infrastructure.