Major Announcements of this new edition
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On the first day of the 12th edition of JEC Asia 2019, Eric Pierrejean, JEC Group CEO and Yoon Hyuk Bang, President of KCTECH gave a welcoming speech and present JEC Asia 2019’s main features during the opening ceremony.
Eric Pierrejean also thanked Korean government officials, local companies and institutes who took part in the event. Thanks to JEC Asia platform, they were able to sign three major MOUs. The first one was between Jeonbuk region and Korea International Trade Association(KITA), the second one between Korea Pallet Pool Co., Jeonbuk province and Hankuk Carbon. And the third one between Pitchcable Inc., Jeonbuk province and BSM. These agreements reflect the national “Gloden Triangle” Composites strategy announced in August by Moon Jae-in, President of South Korea. Major economic investments of 7 to 8 trillion won (US$ 5.82 to 6.66) will support this strategy in the next seven years to structure and reinforce the local Composites industry.
Within this context, after three successful JEC Asia shows in Seoul, Eric Pierrejean officially announced the new name of the event, JEC KOREA, as of 2020, in order to promote the Korean composites sector and also to reinforce Seoul’s positioning as THE place to meet for the composites industry in the Asia Pacific region.
This strategic positioning has already been confirmed this year by the presence of many foreign government representatives: his Excellency Mr Philippe Lefort, French Ambassador to Korea, Mr Alexander Renner, Head of the Scientific Affairs Division of the German Embassy in Seoul, and Giampiero Valeo, Commercial Attache of the Italian Embassy in Seoul.
A very robust and high-level conferences program
The Technical conferences held in parallel of the show were dedicated to carbon fiber, to Automotive and to Aeronautics with the support of KCTech and Composites United. They confirm the actual global trends in the Composites Business:
Sustainability: the introduction and conclusion presentations were dedicated to sustainability and recycling. Dr. Joachim H. Henning from Composites United pointed out that the main question to introduce composites in a new development was: how much it costs?, it is now: is it recyclable? Mr. Wang Chih-Yung from UHT Unitech introduced a in house microwave recycle system for composite materials. Mr. Gerret Kalkoffen from Carbon TT explained how the iIncrease pay load of commercial vehicules is today a great selling point for composites;
Thermoplastics: wether to increase production volume or to increase recyclability, many speakers insisted of the development of thermoplastics: Oh Gun Son from Samyangsa, Viktor Major from Velocite BVBA, Gu-Youn Kim from Engel Machinery Korea, Charlotte Troubat from Chomarat…
Development of new processes and materials: our industry remains very active in proposing new solutions as showed by:
Ousuke Ishida from Innovative Composite Center - KIT, Jens Boelke from Thomas Technik, Sang-Woo Kim from Korea Institute of Materials Science, Daniel Grauer from c-m-p gmbh, Siyan Qing from Covestro, Bin Wei from NIO, Rob Blackburn from Solvay, Sean Henson from Ascent Aerospace, Seung Beom Kang from KCTECH, Yoong Ahm Kim from the Chonnam National University…
H2 Storage: this application is extraordinary in terms of volume of composites but a new paradigm is needed to dramatically increase production speed. Sung Ha from the Hanyang University, Tadashi Uozumi from Murata Machinery and Emmanuel Flouvat from MF Tech brought this to the fore;
Oil & Gas: Desipte the low price of crude oil, Composites continue to be a must in some Oil & Gas application as Anh-Tuan Do from TechnipFMC and Mohammed W. Al-Qahtani from Aramco Asia pointed out.
JEC Asia 2019 Innovation Awards
The JEC Innovation Awards is a long-established and worldwide program with three simple goals: identify, promote, and reward the most innovative composite solutions in the world. Over the past 15 years, the JEC Innovation Program has involved 1,800 companies worldwide; 177 companies and 433 partners have been rewarded for the excellence of their composite innovations. The JEC Innovation Awards reward composites champions, based on criteria such as partner involvement in the value chain, technicality, or commercial applications of innovations.
The awards ceremony took place place on November 14, 2019, in the COEX in Seoul. Ben Bassat, President and CEO of Plataine Avner opened the ceremony with a keynote about “The 4th industrial revolution: implementing IIOT and AI to composite materials and manufacturing”. The winners have been rewarded for their innovative solutions, in 10 categories:
The Czech company Compo Tech Plus Spol with its PartnersAero Vodochody Aerospace have won in the category Aeropace for the Composite Aileron structure made by filament winding a cured in one step. The production is automated with no sandwich core structure or secondary bonding.
Hyundai Motor Group with its partners Mitsubishi Chemical Corp., SK Chemicals and Hyundai Steel won in the category for their work on the Evolution of Painting for CFRP Auto Body Panels allowing Class A surface finish by on-line / in-line painting processes. It proposes a new method for producing a CFRP trunk-lid based on PCM and SMC process.
Hanyang University with Kolon Plastics and Hyundai Motors were awarded in the category Automotive Structural for their Lightweight Engine Bracket using Hybrid Processing. This lightweight and noise-damping engine bracket is developed using compression molding of chopped and Continuous UD Carbon Prepreg to replace the complex shaped bulky and heavy automotive engine bracket.
In the Category Electrical, Electronics & Appliances, Jiva Materials Ltd from UK with its French partner Eco-Technilin have created Soluboard® - a revolutionary bio-composite material manufactured with Eco-Technilin’s FlaxTape™ - designed to redefine the way that we manufacture Printed Circuit Boards.
M&A Dieterle GmbH and its partners Filacon Systems by Tajima and the University of Stuttgart - Institute of Aircraft Design -IFB (GERMANY) combine FixedTow laying with with tailored fibre placement for simplified and optimized preforming: Novel Tailored fixedTow Placement Machine for fast results and ease of use. They received the JEC Award Trophy in the category Industrial Equipment for this.
The University Of New South Wales – AMAC with the Australian Defence Science and Technology (DST) - Maritime Division Department (Australia) have been awarded in the category Merine for the development of a shape Adaptive Hydrofoil with Fiber-Optic Sensing. It consists in a validated optimized methodology for design of passive shape adaptive structures. This 1:1 scale 3D part was embedded with fiber-optic sensors and manufactured using Automated Fiber Placement robot.
Jiangsu Hengshen received a price in the category Railway for its Maglev train CFRP beam. For the first time, a composite material is used to manufacture the suspension frame beam to meet the flame retardant requirements of EN45545-2013 (HL2). Also for the first time, the OOA process is used to prepare structural members such as suspension frame beams.
Ergon Projetos Ltda - a spin-off of the Brazilian Cogumelo Company – developed a smart station which is an innovative urban structure, off-grid stationary generator that provides shadow, clean energy, night lightening, connectivity and can be used for the IoT Commerce and MOOH. The clever way of using composites allowed them to win in the category renewable energy.
Daimler AG and their numerous partners: ARENA2036 [Active Research Environment for the Next generation of Automobiles], Robert Bosch GmbH, the Institute of Aircraft Design (IFB) at the University of Stuttgart, the University of Applied Sciences Ravensburg-Weingarten (RWU) and ACE - Advanced Composite Engineering GmbH have won an award in the category Smart Composites for their Composites 4.0 – CFRP with wireless sensor systems. Composites with Intelligence on board: This CFRP-part is a completely autonomous system made from carbon fibers in a serial process with wireless power supply, sensors and data Transmission.
And last and not least, Toray Industries, Honma Golf Co. and Suzuki Motor Corporation won the Sports & Leisure Award for the Torayca® Prepreg ET40 with Superior Formability. It achieves superior levels of formability with complex shapes while keeping equivalent mechanical properties to conventional continuous fiber UD prepreg.
JEC Composites StartUp Booster
On second day of #JECAsia 2019
JEC Group is continuously sourcing innovations and promoting them. Its different programs ‒ Startup Booster competition, the Innovation Planet, the Students Program, and the JEC Innovation Awards – enable innovative global composite projects, as well as fruitful collaborations between different players in the value chain.
JEC Startup Booster competition was held for the first time in Asia this year. Five out of the ten finalists are Korea-based, reflecting once again the local economic dynamism.
The competition was a great success and rewarded the following startups:
Gold award: Anisoprint (Russia)
Silver award: Dou Ys’ Chem (South Korea)
Bronze award: Imagine Intelligent Materials (Australia)
Three of them won a chance to present their work at JEC World 2020 in Paris next March.(来源：JEC-KOREA)
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