This Award has been given to the range of Stanyl polyamide 46 products because they are unique, innovative and have achieved competitive advantage in the marketplace. In addition to Stanyl's impressive portfolio of performance properties, a major advantage of Stanyl versus other performance plastics is that they can be used without any reinforcement, thus offering even greater weight savings to OEMs.
To choose a recipient of this award, the analyst team tracks all new product launches, R&D spending, products in development, and new product features and modifications. This is accomplished through interviews with all the market participants, and extensive secondary and technology research. All new product launches and new products in development in each company are compared and evaluated based on degree of innovation and customer satisfaction. Companies are then ranked by number of new product launches and new products in development.
In addition to the methodology describe above, there are specific criteria used to determine final competitor rankings in this industry. The recipient of this award has excelled based on one or more of the following criteria:
- Significance of new product(s) in their industry
- Competitive advantage of new product(s) in their industry
- Product innovation in terms of unique or revolutionary technology
- Product acceptance in the marketplace
- New product value-added services provided to customers
- Number of competitors with similar product(s)
