The 13th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award
Awarded by the Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry
Makoto Endo, Masafumi Ise, Akihiko Kitano, and Nobuyuki Odagiri
Toray Industries, Inc.
Development of carbon fiber composite materials for lightweight commercial airplanes

The 13th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award
Awarded by the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology
Masahiro Miura, Tetsuya Sato and Koji Hirano
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University
Development of New Methods for Environmentally-Benign Dehydrogenative Cross-Coupling

The 13th Green and Sustainable Chemistry Award
Awarded by the Minister of the Environment
Chugoku Marine Paints, Ltd.
Hitachi Chemical Company., Ltd.
National Maritime Research Institute
Cooperative Association of Japan Shipbuilders
Yuge National College of Maritime Technology
Development and practical use of a new paint which enable reduction of VOC and ship hull friction

The 3rd GSC Incentive Award
Shun Hashimoto, Yuji Kinpara, Nobutaka Fujimoto,
Sumitomo Seika Chemicals Co., Ltd.
Yoshihiro Kon, Kazuhiko Sato
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Development of clean oxidation method of producing functional chemicals using hydrogen peroxide as an oxidizing reagent