Nominations Now Open for the 2017 William Cordes Innovation Excellence Award
The American Brush Manufacturers Association is pleased to accept nominations for of the "ABMA William A. Cordes Innovation Excellence Award" which is to recognize outstanding innovation of manufactured products, components or services in the Broom, Brush, Mop and Roller Industry. The award is named after William A. Cordes, who served as the Association's first President from 1917-1928. This award serves as a constant reminder that all new and exciting endeavors have beginnings that connect with real people. This award is to be an annual competition whereby any interested parties may submit nominations to ABMA during any calendar year for consideration. All nominations must be readily available in the marketplace during the year in which they are to be considered. Please see the contest rules for specific details.
Mr. Mark Fultz , ABMA President encourages companies to enter the competition
and says: " The ABMA Innovation Award competition is a great opportunity
for companies to showcase their innovative products, components and services to
the industry, and to the larger audience served by customers, users and
consumers as well. It gives the greater industry a wonderful opportunity to see
just how innovative, creative and vibrant we are as brushmakers."
Nominations will be exhibited at the 2017 ABMA Annual Convention. The current
award winner is Borghi's Jupiter Machine with "e-stroke and KERS".
As Peter Drucker says, "Invention is one of the critical keys to
success." The "ABMA Innovation Award" recognizes those companies
and individuals who pursue the path of creation and innovation in order to stay
ahead of their competition in this most competitive world.
Winner
of ABMA's William A. Cordes Innovation Excellence Award in 2011,
Sanderson MacLeod first introduced their revolutionary patented medical brush
tip, the Z-Tip, at the 2011 ABMA conference held in Austin, Texas. Recently,
the company offered a retrospective look at what winning the award has meant to
the company.
"Winning Innovation Excellence
Award has had a very positive impact on our organization," said Mark
Borsari, President of twisted-in-wire contract manufacturer Sanderson MacLeod.
"Since winning the award, our
Z-Tip technology has become actively utilized in key markets such as medical,
aerospace and cosmetics. The market reception has been beyond our expectations.
Many of our customers are considered innovators in their markets, and knowing
we received the Innovation Excellence Award from the ABMA has enhanced our
credibility as a top tier design and supply partner." Borsari said.
When asked to list the top three
benefits winning the award provided, Borsari offered the following:
"First, winning ABMA's innovation
award gave us the ability to share our innovation and receive vitally important
feedback from our trusted fellow brush association members. Second, the award
has become a source of tremendous pride to our development team...a real
acknowledgement of the long hours and dedication it took to make our concept a
reality," reflected Borsari. "Finally, it reinforced the importance
of bringing new technologies to the brush making industry. Today, when
considering future projects, we ask ourselves if our concepts would be worthy
of another Innovation Excellence recognition."
"For us, the ABMA and the William
A. Cordes Award has made innovating new ideas challenging and purposeful. I'd
recommend to any company that they submit any qualifying product for
consideration...You never know where it may take you."
Entries for the award will be
accepted until November 30 and the award presentation will be made at the ABMA
Annual Convention in March 2017 at the Hyatt Grand Cypress Resort & Spa in
Orlando, FL. For more information, rules and nomination forms please visit: http://www.abma.org/innovationexcellenceaward