Business & Money | Wednesday 14 January, 2015 2:51 am |

The GCC’s plastic industry celebrated the winners of the 5th Plastics Excellence Awards 2015, an initiative of the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association (GPCA) in Dubai last night.

Sponsored by Borouge, the GPCA Plastics Excellence Awards recognize outstanding initiatives in plastics conversion, plastics engineering and product development by companies and individuals from the Arabian Gulf region. Now in its fifth edition, the awards are part of GPCA’s aspirations and continuous contributions to the enhancement of the region’s plastics industry. The winners were honored at a gala dinner held as part of the 6th Plasticon conference in Dubai.

Award recipients were chosen from a 39 applications by a jury that included top executives from Borouge, Tasnee and Sabic:

Best Joint Development of a new Product/ Application by a Resin Producer and Plastic Converter:
Winner: Orpic, Oman together with Skaps and other national and international converters
PP staple fiber grade with enhanced tenacity and elongation for geotextile applications
Runners up: Sabic & Saudi Mais, Saudi Arabia
Using Sabic’s PS grade for Saudi Mais’ nebulizer head

Best Plastic Products and Processes
Winner: Equate, Kuwait
Innovative LLDPE Product with high clarity and low blocking
Runners up: Reifenhäuser and Napco, Saudi Arabia
Evolution of an ultra cool FFS blown film system

Best Researcher
Winner: Dr Orass Hamed, from Sabic’s R&D Center, Saudi Arabia
Polyolefin catalysis
Runners up: Dr Kumar Yadav and Dr Hau Qua, Nipras Tasnee, Saudi Arabia
Conducting polyolefin: a way for commodity converting into specialty polyolefin

Student competition – Fikra: Rising Stars of the Plastics Industry
Winner: Rayan Zakaria Mubarak Al-Ahmadi and Khaleed Saleah Al-Mosalam, Trainees in Diploma course of Plastics Fabrication Technology, Higher Institute of Plastics Fabrication, Saudi Arabia
Eliminating long spues from injection molds
Runners up: Sultan Al-Otaibi and Omar Al-Enezi
Development of injection molding method of elimination of a weld-line