Awards

 

A $1.7 million award from National Institute of Standards and Technology, Nortech Innovation Award, Extensive support from Department of Energy and Department of Defense, and multiple R&D 100 'Oscars of Innovation' winning core technologies are a testament to MesoCoat’s game changing technologies.

National Association of Corrosion Engineers (NACE) Materials Performance (MP) Corrosion Innovation of the Year Award Won in the "Coatings and Linings" category, this award was conferred upon MesoCoat’s CermaClad™ high-speed, large-area, metal cladding technology that extends the useful life of metal assets while significantly reducing associated maintenance and downtime costs.

AMM Steel Excellence Award of the Year CermaClad High-Speed Large-Area Cladding Technology wins the Best Process Innovation of the Year at American Metals Market’s Steel Excellence Award. The American Metals Market (AMM) Awards for Steel Excellence recognize processes, products and business developments that have made a profound impact on the steel industry.

Abakan's proprietary CermaClad™ clad pipe product was awarded the coveted “Subsea Pipeline Technology of the Year” award by the Pipeline Industries Guild. MesoCoat, an Abakan subsidiary that developed the CermaClad™ technology, received the award at the Pipeline Industries Guild National Dinner in London on March 12, 2013. The CermaClad™ high-speed large-area clad pipe technology produces a superior metallurgical clad pipe product for the oil and gas industry, where availability of metallurgical clad pipes and the associated lead time have been a major concern.

Abakan subsidiary MesoCoat wins first prize in Wall Street Journal’s global Technology Innovation Awards for Manufacturing Technology. MesoCoat Inc., takes the top spot for its CermaClad™ metal-coating process. CermaClad™ sets a new, hard-to-meet benchmark in productivity, performance, and cost in the metal coating and cladding industry, offering up to two orders of magnitude improvement over current state-of-the-art cladding technologies.

MesoCoat, Inc. has been ranked #50 in Forbes list of America’s Most Promising Companies. MesoCoat was ranked highest amongst four companies that represent the materials industry in the list of America’s Most Promising Companies; and is the only nanotechnology, protective coatings company on this list. Forbes' list of America's Most Promising Companies features 100 privately held up-and-comers with compelling business models, strong management teams, notable customers, strategic partners and precious investment capital.

MesoCoat, Inc., together with The Edison Materials Technology Center (EMTEC) and Polythermics, LLC has been awarded $1.79 million by National Institute of Standards & Technology through its Technology Innovation Program. The funds will be used to develop a novel coating technology using a high-intensity infrared light source to fuse and bond nanocomposite metal coatings and claddings to large steel structures such as bridges, oil rigs and pipelines.

The annual NorTech Innovation Awards program honors the achievements of companies, entrepreneurs, universities and nonprofit organizations who have taken their creative concepts from vision to realities which are impacting our everyday lives. These remarkable organizations are setting new world standards for technological advancement.

The R&D Awards, widely recognized as the "Oscars of Innovation", identifies and celebrates the top high technology products of the year. Sophisticated testing equipment, innovative new materials, chemistry breakthroughs, biomedical products, consumer items, high-energy physics: the R&D 100 Awards spans industry, academia, and government-sponsored research.

2009 Andrew Sherman, Company Founder, Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur Of The Year® Award is the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The award makes a difference through the way it encourages entrepreneurial activity among those with potential and recognizes the contribution of people who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. As the first and only truly global award of its kind, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® award celebrates those who are building and leading successful, growing and dynamic businesses, recognizing them through regional, national and global awards programs in more than 135 cities in 50 countries.

Euclid Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year 2009 The Euclid Chamber of Commerce “Business of the Year” is an award that recognizes and honors a Euclid business that has made a contribution to the economic growth and welfare of the Euclid business community. A business is nominated that continuously provides high-quality services and products, or a business that has recently implemented changes to improve its products, services, or site within the community.

Inc. 5000 August 2008 – Powdermet won Inc. Magazine's Inc. 5000 Award, which is an expansion of the  Inc. 500, that Inc. Magazine introduced in 1982. The Inc. 5000 includes the Inc. 500 but digs deeper to offer the most comprehensive look ever at the entrepreneurial engine driving the  U.S. economy.

2008 Euclid Chamber of Commerce Blue Stone Award The Blue Stone Award was created to honor those businesses & individuals that made a significant, yet specific, contribution to the City of Euclid in 2008. Euclid was once a quarry industry and known specifically for its Blue Stone. That industry has helped shape Euclid into what it is today and they feel the actions of these recipients will also help to shape Euclid's future.