Curtain comes down on another successful JEC World event

Frédérique Mutel, president and CEO of JEC Composites
Frédérique Mutel, president and CEO of JEC Composites

JEC World 2018, closes its doors on March 8th with what the organiser is claiming a record increase in attendance over three days of vibrant networking and knowledge sharing.

The show welcomed more than 1,300 exhibitors from every continent and counted 42,445 professional visits from 115 countries.

“The ability of JEC Group to gather the whole composites industry under one roof over three days lies in the fact that we always initiate new precursory programmes to the service of composites professionals,” stated Frédérique Mutel, JEC Group president & CEO. “For instance, the Composite Challenge allowed ten PhD students to pitch their thesis in front of the industry, thus facilitating connections between students and industrialists. In the same spirit, we increased in power our Start Up Booster and Innovation Award Programs to accelerate relations between young or innovative companies with investors or established enterprises.

“We also introduced one new planet called “Make it Real” along with the Aero, Auto and Construction planets. In this planet, we could discover astonishing futuristic products for example the Aeromobil, a flying car that would revolutionize urban transportation in the near future. We launched our new Book on Natural Fibres: Flax and Hemp. We had strong communications on Composites Environmental Input and Recycling.”

The event was the first event to promote and host the new ‘French Fab’, a French government initiative to internationally promote the French industry and manufacture. Also, JEC World welcomed the French Secretary of State to the Minister of Economy and Finance Delphine Gény-Stephann in a visit that demonstrates the growing role of composites in the industry.

Dirk Ahlborn, CEO of Hyperloop opened the Startup Booster ceremony by supporting the spirit of ingenuity in the Industry. Dayton Horvath, industry expert and consultant in additive manufacturing presented his vision of how to apply artificial intelligence to composite Materials and Manufacturing. Finally, Yves Rossy, the ‘jetman’ using the latest carbon-fibre wings for flight introduced the JEC Innovation awards ceremony, motivating the audience to pursue their dreams and explaining how composites could made his dreams come true.

A first at the show this year was the introduction of the public votes to elect their favourite projects among two JEC programs promoting innovation.

“The goal to create the “public choice awards” was to involve and embark our community to make their innovation loud, said Anne-Manuèle Hébert, director for JEC World and European Events for JEC Group. Our vision at JEC is to demonstrate and to make understand towards a broader scope the vast range of possibilities that composite materials offer.”

PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD FOR STARTUP BOOSTER: Inca-Fiber (Germany) with 62.36% of the 2,221 votes

PUBLIC CHOICE AWARD FOR JEC INNOVATION AWARDS: Infusion technology for an aircraft wing by AeroComposit JSC (Russia) gaining 20.96% of the 4,126 votes.

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