Highest Accolade for FTI Group
2017 COMPOSITES INDUSTRY AWARD WINNERS
On the 1st of November Composites UK revealed the winners of its industry awards at the annual prestigious black-tie dinner held at the National Motorcycle Museum.
The event, which took place alongside the Advanced Engineering Show, saw 250 people from around the world gather to celebrate the innovations of the UK composites industry and the people behind them.
Guests at the event included McLaren, GKN Aerospace, Pentaxia, Safran Nacelles and Sigmatex, with a keynote speech from Iain Bomphray of Williams Advanced Engineering who challenged the UK composites industry to strive to be world-class with the opportunity of significant growth predicted across all sectors.
Ten awards in all were given out on the evening, with FTI Group picking up the award for Innovation in Composite Materials.
Speaking of the award after the event, Neil Smallwood said: “ This award recognises the hard work and innovative research and development carried out in the last few years. FTI has shown that phenolic SMC’s and prepregs can be processed in ways never possible before. Mouldings qualifying for the most difficult aerospace and rail FST standards can now be made at unit costs never before achievable”.