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Congratulations to the 2023 Winners!
Best Digital Innovation from a Large Company - Joint Winners
Evonik Operations GmbH: COATINO® Defect Detection
- Quantifying coating defects by using advanced image recognition methods
DOW: DOW™ Paint Vision: Shaping the Modern Digital Lab for Paint Formulation


Finalists:
- Sewage & recycled water networks Dubai municipality: Development of Fog Watch - a digital platform to manage fat, oil and grease waste
- Fatima Fertilizer Company: Sarsabz Pakistan (Fatima Fertilizers Farmer Application)
- Fatima Fertilizer Company: Sarsabz Asaan (Fatima Fertilizers Dealers App)
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Best Process Innovation
from a Large Company
UPM Biochemicals is part of UPM The Biofore Company: UPM Biochemicals: Future beyond fossils

Finalists:
- Nouri Petrochemical Company, PGPIC: Diagnosis, optimization, and compromising the bottlenecks of the benzene extraction process by designing an innovative tower's internal
- Wanhua Chemical Group Co.,Ltd.: Methylen Diphenyldiisocyanate (MDI) by-product amine-containing waste brine recycling technology
- Wanhua Chemical Group Co., Ltd.: Automatic continuous formaldehyde-free adhesive spray plywood panel process
- PPG: PPG Zero Discharge Project
- INDORAMA VENTURES: Optimization of cycle reaction propoxylation process time
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Best Process Innovation
from an SME
Botanical Solution Inc: Growing & extracting from plants in-the-lab to produce new fungicides for agriculture and QS-21 vaccine adjuvants for human health

Finalists:
- LanzaTech: Pollution to products
- AmSty: Innovative PolyRenew® circularity solution for accelerating plastics recycling
- Origin Materials: Origin Materials
- GDB Paint & Coatings: Making every drop count: GDB's commitment towards a net-zero waste paint industry
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Best Product Innovation
from a Large Company
Arkema: Recycling of monomaterial shoe

Finalists:
- Dow: DEXCARE™ CD-1 Polymer: Boost your shampoo’s conditioning effectiveness with Dow’s renewable, bio-derived deposition aid
- Dow Chemical: EcoSense™ GL-60 HA/HL Surfactants: Novel sustainable bio-surfactants for personal care rinse-off and leave-on applications
- Celanese International Corp: Achieve even lower carbon footprint with Santoprene® ECO-R Series TPV products
- Corteva Agriscience: A modern nematicide with soil health benefits: Salibro™ Nematicide with Reklemel™ Active from Corteva Agriscience
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Best Product Innovation
from an SME
Viridis Chemical Company: Viridis Chemical Company - Commercial Scale Bio-based Ethyl Acetate with Lower GHG Emissions

Finalists:
- ECO GLAS Environmental Limited: Septic Tank Smart Box
- Locus Ingredients: Leading the charge: Optimizing sophorolipids for real-world applications
- LanzaTech: CarbonSmart ethylene from CO2
- Oberon Fuels: Decarbonizing the global LPG industry, with new, negative-CI ingredient