Roty Awards

Although business innovation and process optimisation often go hand in hand, it is the first time a company wins both awards. The jury commented on awarding both awards to F2J Reman with the following: "F2J Reman's Part recognition Vision system is tackling the right problem, whereby today many companies are depending with core identification on an internal expert, who's hard to replace in the case he/she is not able to work for them anymore. F2J Reman decided to embrace novel smart technologies to support business optimisation by attracting a PhD student and using artificial intelligence."

The winner is Re:CREATe. With Re:CREATe’s vision to be co-creators of a thriving remanufacturing industry in India, the organisation has made a sound impact on the jury with their commitment to being advocates for, and providing tools, resources, guidance and inspiration to the makers, doers, and designers, empowering them to develop and provide remanufactured products and related services that are in harmony with the principles of environmental stewardship.

Special times ask for special recognition. GB Remanufacturing, a company that remanufactures components for gas and diesel engines used their expertise and knowledge to design a vital part for the medical industry when it was most needed. In April this year, normal hospital respirators needed to be converted to pressure controlled respirators. The Original Equipment Manufacturer did not have all the pieces to manufacture the special part, so they used the Emergency Use Act, where they allowed others to add parts to their product. GB Reman provided this life-saving ventilator part to its local hospital.