3 projects nominated for the final round

Date : 10 November 2019

The SMC BMC Design Award 2019 was focused on developing new ideas and product solutions for SMC and BMC in Sustainable Mobility.

Student teams from all over Europe sent in a large number of project proposals. These were reviewed in detail by the Jury, against the key selection criteria Creativity, End-user functionality, Feasibility in SMC BMC, and a Minimum of 4 SMC BMC performance criteria used.

The Jury was very happy with the quality of the projects, and the capability of some of the teams to think out-of-the box. While some teams spent a lot of time on the design and manufacture-ability in SMC BMC, others emphasized more the consumer use and marketing aspects.

After a thorough review of the projects, the following three were selected as finalists :

Alle
ESAD Portugal

Maria-João Melo team

SEV Storage
TU Delft Netherlands

Finn Kooijman

Rayboard
ESAD Portugal

Nídia Rodrigues team

These finalists have already been informed and have been invited to present their projects at the Composites Europe show in Stuttgart (September 10, 12.30-13.30 h., location: Lightweight Technology Forum). There we will announce the final prices.
More information about these projects will be presented on our web site by early September.
The European Alliance for SMC BMC would like to thank all participants to the SMC BMC Design Award 2019 for their participation and the invested energy, wishing them great success in their career as professional designers.

The Jury consisted of :

Joan Montobbio: Jury Chairman, Managing Director of Menzolit Spain/ Menzolit UK, Vice-President of European Alliance for SMC BMC
Hubertus Rehermann: Technical Director SMC BMC Component Manufacturing for Mercedes-Benz cars, Germany
Andrea Ratti: Professor Composites Engineering and Design at Politecnico Milano, Italy
Joachim Froment: Independent designer, worked for Skibsted Ideation (Denmark) on Sustainable Mobility projects

SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD 2019
SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

The SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD 2019 is the 2nd edition of the international Design Competition, organized by the EUROPEAN ALLIANCE for SMC BMC. This competition recognizes and promotes design excellence by Design students or Young Design professionals (less than 3 years of experience) while using SMC and BMC advanced materials in their designs.

The SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD is intended to reinforce that SMC and BMC are innovative, versatile, cost effective and safe materials, used in products that make significant beneficial contributions to individual consumers and to society. Innovations entered into the SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD will be judged by an independent Jury with expert members from both the Design community and the Composites industry.

The SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD offers you an opportunity to promote your SMC BMC related innovation. The SMC BMC DESIGN AWARD is designed to boost innovation by providing winners with support for fine-tuning their designs, business plans and market positioning, manufacturing-ability and ultimately help bring their innovations to market.

This year topic is SUSTAINABLE MOBILITY

The Award will present winning entries with a total amount of €17.500: