Celebrating the Achievements of the UK Composites Industry
Every November, Composites UK hosts its Industry Awards Dinner to coincide with the Advanced Engineering Show.
This event has gone from strength-to-strength since its creation in 2012, going from 70 attendees to over 300. Here, awards are given out for innovation in materials, manufacture, design, health and safety, environmental/sustainability projects as well as personnel awards celebrating employer, employee and trainee/apprentice of the year.
Case Studies
Below are some case studies from our past winners showing their innovative work and how the accolade has helped their business.
2024 Winners
The winners of the 2024 will be announced on the evening of 30th October at our annual Awards Dinner.
- Apprentice of the Year: James Coxon – McLaren
- Employer of the Year: Leybold UK Ltd
- Social Impact Award: Leybold UK Ltd
- Sustainability Award: Circularity: Composite Braiding
- Sustainability Award: Net-Zero Initiative: JLR & Partners – SOCA Project
- Innovation in Composite Design: Plyable
- Innovation in Composite Materials: Lineat & SHD Composite Materials
- Innovation in Composites Manufacture: Longworth (EMPHASIZING Project)
- Special Recognition Award: Graham Harrison
- Outstanding Contribution to the Composites Industry: Prof. Mike Hinton
2024 Shortlisted Entries
The other companies and individuals shortlisted in 2024 were:
Apprentice of the Year
Social Impact Award
Sustainability Award: Circularity
Sustainability Award: Net-Zero Initiative
Innovation in Composite Materials
Innovation in Composites Manufacture
2023 Winners
The 2023 Composites UK Industry Award winners were:
- Apprentice of the Year: Marcus Mullins
- Employer of the Year: Leybold
- Social Impact Award: GRP Solutions
- Sustainability Award – Circularity: Gen 2 Carbon
- Sustainability Award – Net-Zero Initiative: TISICS
- Innovation in Composites Design: FAC Technology
- Innovation in Composites Manufacture: Far UK
- Innovation in Composites Materials: TISICS
- Outstanding Contribution to the Composites Industry: Mona Jesri
2023 Shortlisted Entries
The other companies and individuals shortlisted in 2023 were:
Apprentice of the Year
Employer of the Year
Sustainability Award – Circularity
- Sustainability Award – Circularity: Longworth and Partners
- Sustainability Award – Circularity: Qube Buildings
Sustainability Award – Net-Zero Initiatives
- Sustainability Award – Net-Zero Initiative: Far UK
- Sustainability Award – Net-Zero Initiative: SHD Composite Materials
Innovation in Design
- Innovation in Composites Design: Carbon ThreeSixty
- Innovation in Composites Design: Chemical Processing Services
- Innovation in Composites Design: National Composites Centre
Innovation in Manufacture
Innovation in Materials
- Innovation in Composites Materials: PRF Composite Materials
- Innovation in Composites Materials: R-Tech Materials
Outstanding Contribution to the Composites Industry
2022 Winners and Shortlisted Entries
You can now download case studies of the 2022 winning and shortlisted entries:
Winners:
- Apprentice of the Year: Britoni Farrer-Williams, McLaren F1
- Employer of the Year: Cristex Composite Materials
- Social Impact Award: Leybold UK Ltd
- Sustainability Award: Circularity – Lineat Composites
- Sustainability Award: Net-Zero – Composite Braiding
- Innovation in Composite Design: Ford Motor Company
- Innovation in Composite Materials: Cygnet Texkimp/B&M Longworth/NCC
- Innovation in Composite Manufacture: Composite Integration
- Outstanding Contribution Award: Prof. Michael Wisnom
Shortlisted:
- Apprentice of the Year: Jasmine Moore, Fluency
- Employer of the Year: Prodrive
- Social Impact Award: Fluency
- Sustainability Award | Circularity: Prodrive Composites
- Sustainability Award | Net-Zero: Jo Bird and Co
- Innovation in Composite Design: iCOMAT
- Innovation in Composite Materials: Lineat Composites
- Innovation in Composite Manufacture: Taziker
- Innovation in Composite Manufacture: Zund UK
- Outstanding Contribution Award – Special Recognition: Robert Burnell
2021 Winners
The winners of the 2021 awards will be announced in November 2021.
- Innovation in Manufacture: Loop Technology
- Innovation in Materials: Composite Braiding
- Innovation in Design: Jaguar Land Rover
- Sustainability Award: B&M Longworth
- Employer of the Year: Leybold
2021 Runners Up
- Innovation in Manufacture: iCOMAT
- Innovation in Materials: Cecence
- Innovation ni Design: Network Rail
- Sustainability Awards: Prodrive Composites
- Employer of the Year: MPM
2020 Winners
- Innovation in Manufacture: Cygnet Texkimp
- Innovation in Materials: Bitrez
- Innovation in Design: Ford
- Health and Safety Award: Bitrez
- Sustainability Award: Prodrive Composites
- Start-Up Business of the Year: iCOMAT
- Employee of the Year: R-Tech Materials – Geraint Havard
- Trainee/Apprentice of the Year: Teledyne CML Composites – Thomas Wakefield
2020 Runners Up
- Innovation in Manufacture: CCP Gransden
- Innovation in Materials: Alvant
- Innovation in Design: Cecence
- Sustainability Award: Chemical Processing Services
- Employee of the Year: MPM – Nick Robinson
- Trainee/Apprentice of the Year: CCP Gransden – James Stewart