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Innovation Award

2025 Innovation Award: Automated Manufacturing Solutions 

Thank you for your interest in participating in the 2025 Innovation Award Competition! This form will collect information about your award submission. 

This year, there are two categories of awards:
  • Automated Manufacturing Solutions
  • Artificial Intelligence Incorporation
     

Submission Deadline: July 11, 2025

Begin Submissions Here: https://firstresource.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3PIDFCiiqT3YSjk

Multiple submissions for either category are accepted and encouraged! When submissions close, all entries will be scrubbed to the best of our ability and sent to the membership for voting. Each submission will be judged based on the Level of Impact, Innovation, Sustainability, Value, and In-House Creation. Winners will be celebrated at the 2025 Benchmarking and Best Practices Conference on October 1-3 in Indianapolis, IN.

If you have questions or issues, please don't hesitate to reach out to us at info@mappinc.com.

You can view all the winners & submissions in the annual Best Practices Books.

2024 Innovation Award Winners: Automation Manufacturing Solutions: Smart Manufacturing Solutions or Labor Solutions

Smart Manufacturing Solutions:

  1. Natech Plastics
  2. Hoffer Plastics
  3. Intertech

Labor Solutions: 

  1. Engineering Industries
  2. Falcon Plastics
  3. Hansen Plastics

2023 Innovation Award Winners: Automation Manufacturing Solutions: Smart Manufacturing Solutions or Labor Solutions

Smart Manufacturing Solutions:

  1. Beaumont Advanced Processing
  2. Natech Plastics
  3. Noble Plastics

Labor Solutions: 

  1. Texas Injection Molding
  2. Beacon Engineered Solutions
  3. Falcon Plastics

2022 Innovation Award Winners: Automated Manufacturing Solutions

Greater than $15 Million in Annual Revenue:

  1. KW Container
  2. Beacon Engineered Solutions
  3. Crescent Industries

Less than $15 Million in Annual Revenue:

  1. Champion Plastics
  2. Noble Plastics
  3. Natech Plastics

2021 Innovation Award Winners: Employee Retention

< 150 Employees Winners:

  • Plastic Components Inc.
  • Intertech Plastics, Inc.
  • Greenleaf Industries

≥ 150 Employees Winners:

  • Seitz Corporation
  • Deluxe Plastics - Medford
  • Viking Plastics

2020 Innovation Award Winners: Technology on the Plant Floor

Under $15M Annual Sales Winners:

  • Automation Plastics
  • Noble Plastics
  • Bamar Plastics

Above $15M Annual Sales Winners:

  • Intertech Medical
  • Falcon Plastics
  • HPC

2019 Innovation Award Winners: Workstation Layout

Under $15M Annual Sales Winners:

  • Blue Ridge Molding
  • Wadal Plastics
  • Bruin Manufacturing

Above $15M Annual Sales Winners:

  • Intertech Medical
  • Plastic Components Inc (PCI)
  • Falcon Plastics, Lexington

2018 Innovation Award Winners: Defect Detection 

  • Microplastics, Inc. 
  • Intertech Medical 
  • Byrne Electrical Specialists
  • Donnelly Custom Manufacturing
  • Falcon Plastics - Lexington 

2017: Innovation Award Winners: Automation Deployment

  • Intertech Plastics
  • Microplastics
  • Makuta Technics
  • Wisconsin Plastics

2016: Innovation Award Winners: Water Manifold Systems

  • DeKalb Molded  Plastics
  • Dymotek
  • Nicolet Plastics

2015: Innovation Awards Winners: SMED (Single Minute Exchange of Die) Carts

  • Deluxe Plastics
  • PMT (Plastic Molding Technology Inc)
  • Microplastics

MAPP’s mission is to enable leaders within the plastics industry to achieve new levels of success.

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