Extrusion International 2-2018

30 Extrusion International 2/2018 29TH IKV-COLLOQUIUM During the opening of the 29th IKV Colloquium, the Association of Plastics and Rubber Machinery Manufacturers in the VDMA (German Engineering Federation), along with PlasticsEurope Deutschland and the Association of Sponsors of the Institute of Plastics Processing (IKV) in Industry and the Skilled Crafts at RWTH Aachen University, awarded the Georg-Menges prize for the eleventh time. More than 800 plastics experts from throughout the world attended IKV’s 29th International Colloquium Plastics Technology The Georg-Menges prize 2018 was won by INTRA – the Interest Group of Innovative Enterprises for Plas- tics Engineering in the Aachen Region. The prize, which consists of a replica of a hand-made monocu- lar Leitz microscope from 1899 built in Wetzlar, has been awarded since 1999 by IKV, VDMA and Plastic- sEurope. This year is the first time an institution and not a person has received the award. The Georg-Menges prize is awarded for outstand- ing application-related achievements in research and engineering in the field of plastics processing over the last decade. It aims to encourage dialogue and cooperation between industry and research, and to create a communicative and cooperative cli- mate between them. Against this background, the jury decided to award this year’s Georg-Menges prize to INTRA. The Interest Group of Innovative Enterprises for Plastics Engineering in the Aachen (Germany) Re- gion (INTRA) is an association of companies found- ed predominantly as spin-offs from IKV. INTRA was established in1999 to make the expertise in plastics that exists in the region of Aachen better known. Since it was founded, INTRA’s aim has been to sup- INTRA receives the Georg-Menges Prize 2018 From left to right: Dr.-Ing. Herbert Müller, CEO of Surteco SE and of IKV’s Association of Sponsors, Institute Director Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Hopmann, Dr.-Ing. Erwin Baur, chairman of INTRA and laudatory speaker Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ernst Schmachtenberg, Principal of RWTH Aachen University (photo: Fröls/IKV)