Kevlar innovation award winner

DuPont Protection Technologies has announced the winner of the DuPont Kevlar Innovation Awards, which showcase ideas, methods, technologies, applications, products and services using DuPont Kevlar in a new way. This year's EMEA award was bestowed to Techplast, a company based in Poland, for its innovative use of Kevlar in SAFER ultra-light composite cylinders.

The award criteria focused on the use of DuPont Kevlar with new materials or new processing technologies and the creativity in the use of DuPont Kevlar in new applications. It also considered the innovation's capacity to enhance protection of people, processes or the environment, as well as the entrant's collaboration with DuPont or other companies and organisations.