The grand Awards ceremony and cocktail party was held at the Renaissance Shanghai Pudong Hotel on May 15, 2013. More than 180 high-level delegates from winning companies such as Bayer, Nuplex Resins, Merck Chemicals, BASF and Air Products together with professionals from authoritative associations, delegates from the China Coatings Summit, Ringier magazine readers and industry media attended the Awards ceremony. Winners shared their latest innovative technologies which drive development in China’s coatings industry.

Mr. Michael R Hay, President of Ringier Trade Media, explains: “This event has been designed to drive innovation in China’s pumps and valves industry. As a celebratory platform, the purpose of the Awards are to encourage, acknowledge and reward those individuals and companies that have developed a new idea, a new methodology, a new product or a new technology for production efficiency, cost effectiveness, or user convenience, which results, for example, in energy saving and more responsible clean manufacturing.”

With the upgrading of the life taste, people highly focus on the health issue nowadays. The water-based coatings will rule the future house renovation market and the furniture paint market. As the basic material for the watery paint, the polymer emulsion plays an important role in it. So in the Innovation Award election for this year, we make a new category --the “Emulsion” for appreciate the contribution which is made by those awarded enterprise and their products. For example,Arkema has provided an innovative single-component emulsion named Encor®2763. The advantage of high chemical resistance,drip-dry property and high hardness may solve the traditional problem that products coated with two-component water-based wood coatings can not be quickly stacked.

The panel of judges and market professionals who presented the Awards to winners included Mr. Deng Jianguo, Director of Sichuan New Materials R&D centre; Mr. Yu Jianfeng, Chief Engineer of Shanghai Paint Co.Ltd; Mr. Lin Xuanyi, General Engineer of Shanghai STO Co., LtdAir Jordan XIII 13 Kid