Ever wondered how you can get the JEC Group innovation award as a sporting goods manufacturer?

This is exactly what I spoke about with Jörg Kaufmann during JEC World 2024.

His statement about his Silbaerg GmbH snowboard "it is the first serial product using the anisotropic coupling effects in a serial product. We started in 2011, one that is pure brand new award with this technology. And since then we are in the premium market with a very special product and a little bit more than the average price for these products and for being available also for other customers. We started to bring glass fibers also into the market.

And nowadays natural fibers are very interesting. We also want to reduce the CO2 footprint of our carbon snowboards and therefore we make a non-woven out of the cutting waste of our carbon snowboards together with the Sächsisches Textilforschungsinstitut e.V. (STFI). And this carbon non-woven is used in the snowboards compared with hemp fibers...: I think we have a the very important and innovative things that nowadays are important to composite technology.FF

First of all, our anisotropic based technology, this is something not a lot other companies have in a serial product. Then we use the dry fiber placement for placing the hemp fibers and these hemp fibers grew up in Saxony, 50 km away from Chemnitz. So I was there at the harvesting of the hemp... And then we have the recycled carbon fibers. So we are circular economy because we use the waste of our dry fiber placement, carbon fiber production for this non-woven. And we have also a bio based resin.

So I think it is a lot of things that are nowadays very important. And I think the combination was the thing why we won the award."

If you have a prototype that you believe deserves to be awarded by the jury hurry up and send your application to JEC for its 2025 round of awards.

Join also our discussions with Christopher Albe and Johannes Leis, both from the STFI about the composites ecosystem and circular Saxony with it's locations in Chemnitz, Dresden and Freiberg.

With this podcast episode we have covered over a dozen interviews from JEC World 2024 and are heading right after KOMPOZYT-EXPO® to JEC Forum DACH in Stuttgart on 22/23 Oct 2024.

Remember also that the next stop of JEC FORUM DACH will be Saxony in 2025. Dresden to be precise.

But before we gather in Dresden, let's meet in Paris at JEC World in March 2025, JEC Forum Italy in June 2025 and JEC Forum Central Europe in September 2025.

For now we are looking forward to interview in Stuttgart

Kerry Lyons of Base Materials
Dominik Riescher of sensXPERT - Optimizing Plastics Manufacturing
Eric Pierrejean of JEC Group 

and more. 

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