INOVYN AWARDS 2022 – THE RULES
PURPOSE OF THE AWARDS
The INOVYN Awards 2022 (“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 etc.
To ensure full impartiality, employees of INOVYN and their families may not apply. Likewise, individuals or organisations directly associated or affiliated to judges may not 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 20 May 2022. You can register on the dedicate website for The Awards: www.inovynawards.com/subscription.
Do not hesitate to contact your INOVYN representative for more information or assistance.
In your entry submission you should:
- explain how and why the innovation complies with the aforemention 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 Awards 2022
INOVYN Belgium S.A.
Avenue des Olympiades 20/Olympiadenlaan 20
1140 Bruxelles
Belgium
AUTHORISATION
All entrants authorize 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 INOVYN peaceful use of intellectual property rights related to their entry as a whole.
All entrants expressly release 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 INOVYN, its employees, and the judges by reason of any decision taken by the judges.
THE AWARDS
The INOVYN Awards 2022 will recognise achievements across four categories.
- INOVYN Award for Responsible Care: safety, health and social responsibility
- INOVYN Award for Carbon Neutrality: reduction of CO2 emissions, energy efficiency
- INOVYN Award for Circularity: recycling
- INOVYN Award for Value to Society: innovation and design
Each category will have a gold, silver, bronze and special commendation winner. The Awards will present winning entries with a total amount of 60.000 EUR distributed as follows:
- The INOVYN Award for Responsible Care 15,000 EUR
- The INOVYN Award for Carbon Neutrality 15,000 EUR
- The INOVYN Award for Circularity 15,000 EUR
- The INOVYN Award for Value to Society 15,000 EUR
The INOVYN Awards 2022 are designed to boost innovation and sustainability by providing winners with support to fund research and development, marketing studies or collaboration with universities or research institutes to help bring their innovations to market.
AWARD CEREMONY
The INOVYN Awards 2022 will culminate in an award ceremony on 20 October 2022 which is being held in Düsseldorf (Germany).
GDPR RULES
Please see our GDPR rules
COVID
The Award Ceremony will be organised in the respect of the COVID sanitary rules in application at this moment.
The mask could be obligatory, the COVID Safe Ticket could be asked.
KEY DATES
Entries will be accepted until 31 May 2022.
The panel of judges will select the finalists in September 2022.
Award Ceremony on 20 October 2022.
Disclaimer
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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.