DuPont Protection Technologies has announced the launch of the DuPont™ Kevlar® Innovation Awards, celebrating excellence in innovation, protection and collaboration. The awards recognize and showcase ideas, methods, technologies, applications, products and services using Kevlar® in a new way. Manufacturers and innovators of products containing Kevlar® located in Europe, Central Europe, Middle East, and South Africa are eligible to enter.
“Since its first commercial use in the early 1970s as a replacement for steel in tires, Kevlar® has become the leading protection brand worldwide,” said Thomas G. Powell, president ─ DuPont Protection Technologies. “Kevlar® is especially known for its ability to protect people in law enforcement, the military and industrial personal protection, but it also provides strength and lightweight protection in aircraft and applications such as cables for fiber optics and oil platforms ─ all creative solutions that improve our daily lives. The DuPont™ Kevlar® Innovation Awards give innovators the opportunity to showcase the incredible things they do with Kevlar® in order to help make our world a safer place today and in the future.”
Entries will be judged on a set of criteria based on excellence in the categories of Innovation, Protection and Collaboration. A panel of experts will determine the winners, who will be recognized at an awards ceremony in autumn 2011. Entries must be received by September 15, 2011. For complete submission information and to enter, please visit www.kevlar.com/innovation.
The awards announcement comes during an important year for Kevlar®. A new DuPont™ Kevlar® facility is being built near Charleston, S.C., and represents a $500 million expansion in Kevlar® capacity. The facility is expected to start up by the end of 2011.
