New Applications Award

In 2022 the following projects were awarded:
Best Market Development Award
In this category the jury was looking for highly original concepts that promote bespoke stainless grades, have a significant global market potential and offer strong environmental improvements in terms of preservation of scarce resources and/or reduction of GHGs and/or reduction in lifetime operational and maintenance costs.
Gold Award |
Acerinox for the ‘Vertical Farming’ concept. Click here. |
Silver Award |
NIPPON STEEL Stainless Steel Corporation for the Liquefied Hydrogen Carrier the “SUISO FRONTIER” |
Bronze Award |
North American Stainless for the Stainless Steel Vehicle Defence Barriers |
Best Technology Award
In this Award category the Jury was looking to recognise original concepts that make significant contributions in either the production methods for stainless steels or for the application efficiency of stainless steels in service, in both existing and new applications.
Gold Award |
POSCO for the High Performance Ferritic Stainless Steel for Large-Scaled Washing Machines and Dryers. Click here. |
Silver Award |
Taiyuan Iron & Steel for the "Hand tearable steel" -- Wide ultra-thin stainless steel precision strip |
Bronze Award |
SIJ Acroni for the Technological development of heat and surface treatment on duplex and super duplex stainless steels SINOXX 4462 and SINOXX 4410 |
For all other entries click here.
For the entries of previous years, please click on the year: 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021