AVK - Reinforced Plastics Industry Association
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| legal form | registered association |
| Seat | Frankfurt am Main |
| founding | 1998 (predecessor: 1924)
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| president | Michael Effing (Chair), Jens Ridzewski (Deputy Chair), Tilman Schultz (Finance), Michael Polotzki, Dirk Punke, Rudolf Kleinholz (co-opted) |
| executive Director | Elmar Witten |
| Members | 230 (2019) |
| Website | https://www.avk-tv.de |
The AVK - Industry Association for Reinforced Plastics e. V. is a German trade association for fiber-reinforced plastics .
history
The association has existed with its current name since 2005.
The association is the oldest interest group in the plastics industry . It was founded in 1924 as the “Technical Association of Manufacturers of Rubber-Free Insulating Materials”. V. “founded. At that time, plastics were used almost exclusively as insulators in electrical engineering. The association concluded a monitoring contract with the State Materials Testing Office , in which the monitoring of typical material properties was specified. After the field of application of the materials was expanded, the name was changed after 1937 to the “Technical Association of Manufacturers of Typed Molding Compounds and Pressing Materials”. In 1998 they joined forces with the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft Intenskte Kunststoffe e. V. “to form today's association.
tasks
The association organizes specialist seminars in cooperation with users, experts and scientific institutes as well as an international annual conference in connection with the COMPOSITES EUROPE trade fair. As part of the annual conference, the AVK Innovation Prize is also awarded to excellent new developments (products, processes).
The AVK primarily pursues the following five goals with its actions:
- Increase the image of reinforced plastics in the market and among the general public
- Promote innovation
- Offer further training
- Emphasize the sustainability of the materials and applications
- Expansion of networks.
Members
The AVK currently has over 230 member companies and is one of the largest associations in the field of “composites” in Europe. It represents its members along the value chain in the area of reinforced plastics.
Members are raw material producers and suppliers as well as processors, mechanical engineers, engineering offices, testing offices and scientific institutes. Small and medium-sized companies can be found in the membership structure as well as multinational corporations.
The member companies of the AVK can be found predominantly in the whole of Germany and in other European countries.
Market report
The assessment of the production quantities for glass fiber reinforced plastics (GRP) in Europe is collected annually through a survey by the AVK. For reasons of comparability with previous years, the Europe shown therein only includes those countries whose production is explicitly disclosed to the raw material suppliers surveyed. In 2012, for the first time, figures for Turkey, which is becoming more important for the European composites industry, as well as other Southeast European and West Asian countries that have not been considered so far were also included. For this reason the new working group "Repair of Composites" was founded by the AVK on December 4th, 2012 under the leadership of Jens Ridzewski .
literature
- Handbook fiber-reinforced plastics: Basics, processing, applications , publisher: AVK, Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3834808814
Web links
- Official website
- Literature from and about AVK - Industrial Association for Reinforced Plastics in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature from and about AVK - Industrial Association for Reinforced Plastics in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Literature from and about the Technical Association of Manufacturers of Typed Press Compounds and Press Materials in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ DNB 10187897-7 , accessed on July 21, 2019
- ↑ Arthur Sommerfeld: Rubber-free insulating materials: Technical and economic. Berlin, 1927, p. 54
- ↑ A. Thum and R. Strohauer: Kunstharzpreßstoff-Lager . in: R. Kühnel (Hrsg.): Materials for plain bearings. Julius Springer, 1939, Berlin. P. 130
- ↑ http://www.kunststoffweb.de/ki_ticker/AVK_Preise_fuer_Innovationen_bei_verstaerkten_Kunststoffen_verliehen_t223700
- ↑ http://www.lightweight-design.de/index.php;do=show/site=lwd/sid=169072578850f555256a5b7462650916/alloc=135/id=17108