EDANA is pleased to announce the nominees for the FILTREX Innovation Award

FILTREX™ Europe, the leading nonwovens filter media conference and tabletop exhibition, which will be held in Geneva on the 5^th and 6^th April 2017 in conjunction with INDEX™17, will showcase for the first time the FILTREX™ Innovation Award, the first award recognizing innovation in the filtration industry.

The FILTREX™ Innovation Award recognize the efforts of all manufacturers of nonwoven based filtration products/elements and celebrate their continuous efforts for excellence and innovation.

The five nominees, which best met the requirements concerning societal benefits in the Award regulation, will each receive a 10-minute slot to present their innovation on Wednesday 5^th April from 2pm to 3pm during the FILTREX™ conference. A voting ballot will be at disposal of the conference attendees to vote and elect the winner.

The winner of the FILTREX™ Innovation will be disclosed at the award ceremony taking place at 7pm at the Château des Bois on Wednesday 5^th April. The winner will receive a specially commissioned trophy featuring an artist’s view of a filter media performance.

Nominees, in alphabetic order, are as follows:

• Ahlstrom Tampere
  Ahlstrom Statguard™: A filter media suitable for bag filters that reduce the explosion risk, as a result of added conductive properties.

• Europlasma
  Nanofics®: A high-tech finishing process which improves filter performance but reduces the consumption of energy and chemicals in manufacturing.

• Freudenberg Filtration Technologies
  microAir® blue: A cabin air filter consisting of four filter layers for total protection against air pollution, including allergens.

• Johns Manville
  A 3-layer hybrid filter media for the production of bag filters

• Sandler
  sawasscreen® enAIRsave®: A new pocket filter media with improved energy efficiency

For more information on FILTREX contact delphine.rens@edana.org