Georg Menges Prize
The Georg Menges Prize (named after the pioneer of plastics technology Professor Georg Menges ) is awarded at the biennial International Plastics Technology Colloquia of the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University . The prize is aimed at outstanding personalities or established groups who have made a name for themselves in the implementation of findings from research and development in the alternation between business and science.
It is awarded by the Association of Rubber and Plastic Machines in the Association of German Machine and Plant Construction , by PlasticsEurope Deutschland eV and by the Association for the Promotion of the Institute for Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and Craft at RWTH Aachen e. V.
The prize was awarded for the first time on March 4, 1999 in the coronation hall of the Aachen town hall , on the occasion of Georg Menges' 75th birthday. The laureate receives a replica of a monocular microscope made by hand by the Leitz company in Wetzlar in 1899 .
Award winners
- 1999 Kurt Weirauch
- 2000 Volker Hülck
- 2002 Rolf Lidl
- 2004 Helmut Potente
- 2006 Gottfried Wilhelm Ehrenstein
- 2008 Erwin Bürkle
- 2010 Hartwig Höcker
- 2012 Herbert Kraibühler
- 2014 Günter Hofmann
- 2016 Hartwig Meier
- 2018 Interest group of innovative Aachen companies in the plastics industry (INTRA)
Web links
- ↑ INTRA awarded the Georg Menges Prize 2018. In: ikv-aachen.de. Retrieved March 1, 2018 .