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06 evonik innovation aWard 2010 New or Improved Processes category: A new route to high-purity isobutene Dr. Christian Böing, Reiner Bukohl, Helmut Kamps, Dr. Dietrich Maschmeyer, Peter Nothhaft, Dr. Udo Peters, Dr. Dirk Röttger, Arnd Schade, Dr. Markus Winterberg C4 Chemistry Business Line Dr. Torsten Balduf, Dr. Wilfried Schmidt Acrylic Monomers Business Line Dr. Thomas Quandt Catalysts Business Line Walter Luh, Dr. Armin Rix, Dr. Horst-Werner Zanthoff Process Technology & Engineering Service Unit elements34 Issue 1|2011 New Products/New System Solutions category: Bringing the power of meat back into feed: CreAMINO® for animal nutrition Dr. Ernst Krämer, Ricardo Gobbi, Dr. Andreas Lemme, Dr. Michael Binder, Dr. Alfred Petri, Dr. Thomas Kaufmann Health & Nutrition Business Unit
evonik innovation aWard 2010 07 Evonik Innovation Award 2010 tHe Winning entries in the 2010 Evonik Innovation Award contest are CreAMINO®, a new feed additive, and a process for making isobutene from MTBE. The sense of excitement among the 200 or so guests was tangible when Patrik Wohlhauser, the chairman of Evonik Degussa GmbH, drew the names of the winners from the envelope at the ceremony held at last year’s Christmas Colloquium in Essen on December 14. Six teams had made the final nomination list and were still in the running to win the Innovation Award—three each in both the categories New Products and New Technologies. Every year, Evonik pays tribute to exceptional development work in the chemicals field, offering prize money of €30,000 for each award. The winning entry in the New Products category was submitted by a team from the Health & Nutrition Business Unit. Its CreAMINO® is a new component for sustainable animal feed. The winning submission in the New Technologies category was from a team comprising members from the C4 Chemistry, Acry l ic Monomers and Catalysts Business Lines and from the Process Technology & Engineering Service Unit. This team was quick to develop a new process for making isobutene from MTBE (methyl tertbutyl ether) and then to translate it into largescale production in both Shanghai and Antwerp. Patrik Wohlhauser Wohlhauser thanked both teams for their excellent achievements, stressing, however, that their victory in the contest by no means equated to a defeat for the other nominees. “Even if there is only room for one team from each category on the prizewinners’ podium, all six have contributed their winning ideas and excellent work towards shaping Evonik’s success.” Twenty teams submitted entries for this year’s competition— eleven in the category New Products and nine in that for New Technologies. In late October, the jury selected its six finalists based on criteria such as commercial value, ecological merits, and benefits to society. In a final session held on the day of the award ceremony, a second jury comprising Mr. Wohlhauser, Dr. Peter Nagler, the head of Innovation Management Chemicals & Creavis, three heads of business units and three professors sel ected the winners. The nominated teams had previously had another opportunity to personally present and discuss their projects to and with the jury and thus convince it of the virtues and commercial potential of their particular development. “After all,” says Wohlhauser, “a new development is only an innovation if it is actually successful on the market. So the business aspects are important, too, namely professional sales and marketing activities.” 777 elements34 Issu e 1|2011
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