Inovyn Awards 2025 – Rules
Purpose of the Awards
The Inovyn Awards 2025 (“The Awards”) are intended to promote the image of vinyl as an innovative, sustainable, versatile, cost effective and safe material that is used in products that make significant beneficial contributions to society. Innovations entered into The Awards shall be judged by an independent panel of expert judges. The Awards offer entrants an opportunity to promote their vinyl related innovation.
Entrants
Entrants may be material processors, additive suppliers, machine producers, end-users, specifiers, service providers, communications/media organisations, student and academic institutions, associations, NGOs, designers, architects etc.
To ensure full impartiality, employees of INEOS Inovyn and their families cannot apply. Likewise, individuals or organisations directly associated or affiliated to judges cannot apply. Joint applications between different kinds of applicants or several applications for one applicant are accepted.
Innovations eligible for the Awards
An innovation in the scope of The Awards is a product or a process that complies with the following combined criteria (the list is not exhaustive and is given for example only):
- to have a link with vinyl (for example: additives; processing machines; composites or compounds of vinyl, logistics etc)
- to contribute to the positive image of the vinyl industry (for example: to be a new application for vinyl; to use recycled material; to reduce waste; to improve hygiene; to preserve the environment, to improve well-being etc)
- to bring improvement to existing products (for example: to reduce carbon footprint, to replace another material at lower cost or higher performance; to improve mechanical, chemical or aesthetic characteristics of existing vinyl products; to allow better processing or higher productivity etc)
- it should be under development or have been available on the market from 1 January 2020.
How to enter?
Your entry form should preferably be completed in English and sent to us before 30 May 2025.
You can register on the dedicate website for The Awards: www.inovynawards.com/subscription.
In your entry submission you should:
- explain how and why the innovation complies with the aforementioned combined criteria
- describe it accurately
- attach a high definition picture (300dpi minimum)
- send, if possible, a prototype or sample to the following address using the ID number you will receive as part of your entry:
INOVYN Belgium SA – INOVYN Awards 2025
Avenue des Olympiades 20
1140 Brussels
Belgium
Do not hesitate to contact your INEOS Inovyn representative for more information or assistance.
Authorisation
All entrants authorise INEOS Inovyn to use their entry (including files and photographs) for advertising purposes or for the organisation of The Awards. To this end, entrants guarantee that they have full powers to dispose of all the intellectual property rights related to the innovation they have entered. Applicants will take all precautions to protect their innovation and guarantee INEOS Inovyn peaceful use of intellectual property rights related to their entry as a whole.
All entrants expressly release INEOS Inovyn from any liability and responsibility linked to their entry or the information provided in connection with the entry.
The judges
The Awards will be led by an independent panel of expert judges.
Any decision of the judges is final.
All entrants waive any recourse against INEOS Inovyn, its employees, and the judges by reason of any decision taken by the judges.
The Awards
The Inovyn Awards 2025 will recognise achievements across three categories.
- Reaching Net Zero: reduction of CO2 emissions, energy efficiency, use of renewables,…
- Circularity: integration of recycled content, design for recycling,…
- Performance and Design: product/process improvement and innovative design,…
Awards ceremony
The Inovyn Awards 2025 will culminate in an award ceremony on Thursday 9 October 2025 which is being held in Düsseldorf (Germany).
GDPR rules
Please see our GDPR rules
Key dates
Entries will be accepted until 30 May 2025.
The panel of judges will select the finalists in July 2025.
Award Ceremony will take place on 9 October 2025.
Disclaimer
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INEOS Inovyn does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any information, advice, instruction and/or recommendation.