The European Alliance for SMC BMC is launching the 5th edition of the SMC BMC Design Award. This international Design Competition is recognizing and promoting design excellence in using SMC and BMC advanced materials. The theme of this edition is “Live Better, Live Green” – SMC solutions for improving Quality of Life. The award ceremony will be take place at JEC World 2026 in Paris.
SMC and BMC are composite materials ideal for making light, and intricate parts that combine structural performance with a smooth surface finish. For that reason, SMC and BMC are increasingly used in a broad range of end-use applications and markets.
NEW DESIGN COMPETITION
The European Alliance for SMC BMC is now launching the 5th edition of its well-known Design Competition, seeking ideas and proposals for applying these versatile materials. “We would like to reinforce that SMC and BMC materials are innovative, cost effective and sustainable, bringing major benefits for consumers and end-users,” comments Joan Montobbio, Chairman of the Alliance Board. “The Alliance will support the winners in fine-tuning their designs, improving part manufacturing-ability and business plans, and in bringing their innovations to market.”
This year’s topic is Live Better, Live Green – SMC solutions for improving Quality of Life. “We like the design students to think about how to improve our daily lives”, explains Thomas Wegman, Marketing Lead for the Alliance. “We believe young designers can help to create solutions and products for making consumers live greener, healthier, and for improving wellbeing.”
AWARD DETAILS AND REGISTRATION
The SMC BMC Design Award 2026 is open for Design students and Young Design Professionals (less than 3 years of experience) living in Europe. Innovations entered into the SMC BMC Design Award will be judged by an independent Jury with expert members from both the Design community and the Composites industry.
The Award has some interesting prices to win: total amount is €17.500, including a Gold Award (€7.500 in cash and €7.500 in coaching), Silver Award (€1.500), and Bronze Award (€1.000).
Please visit https://smcbmc-europe.org/award for pre-registering your project team. Projects have to be submitted before December 31st, 2025.
The final Design Award 2026 ceremony will be held at JEC World 2026 in Paris (March 2026).
EUROPEAN ALLIANCE FOR SMC BMC
The European Alliance for SMC BMC is an industry association of European companies involved in SMC and BMC technology, promoting the benefits of SMC BMC composite solutions through:
- Connecting key stakeholders in the supply chain
- Providing details on typical end-uses
- Explaining the features and associated benefits
- Making available design information to engineers and designs
- Facilitating the information exchange at selected events