The European Polycarbonate Sheet Extruders (EPSE, www.epse.org) are organizing for the second time an internal European award competition among its members.

EPSE was created in 2003 by five prominent polycarbonate sheet manufacturers as a sector group of the European Plastics Converters Association (EUPC, www.plasticsconverters.eu), the European organisation for plastics converters. Today EPSE can count on the effective participation of 11 players in the polycarbonate market.

This award competition aims to raise awareness of the benefits of polycarbonate in different areas of applications.Polycarbonate is a high quality, transparent, thermoplastic synthetic material with exceptional properties. Therefore in this competition EPSE wants to emphasize the uniqueness, creative and innovative character of polycarbonate.

The competition consists of two award categories:

- Best innovation award
- Best project award

Entrants of the competition need to produce evidence of the effectiveness of the submitted concept for at least one of the criteria.The jury will make a pre-selection based on the following criteria:

- Innovativeness
- Translatability
- The use of polycarbonate sheet over another material
- Design

Last year the award in the Best Project category went to Emirates Stadium by Mark Craine, HOC Sports in London UK, and the award in the Best Innovation category went to Ski Tunnel designed by Esa Kylä-Kaila from Kasvihuone ES-AN Oy and Markku Katajamäki from Insinööritoimisto Rakenne-Rauma Oy, in Uusikaupunki, Finland.

The awards will be handed over end of 2008 by the EPSE President and the EuPC President in the winning country.