Breakthrough Solution of the Year

Welcome to the 2017 Platts Global Metals Awards Nomination process!

Each category contains specific criteria that must be completed.  Click here to view the glossary for suggested criteria content. Click here to view the judging process and rules. 

You are welcome to begin your nomination, save and then return to finish. Please click Save and Continue Survey Later at the bottom of the next page. All questions with an asterisk are required for completion. The form will time out so please be sure to save your entry as you go. 

Questions? Please contact the Global Metals Awards Team at +1 720 264 6840 or email globalmetalsawards@spglobal.com

Open to miners, producers, processors, equipment makers, exchanges, clearing houses, recyclers, technology providers, software creators, end-users and others contributing to the metals value chain.

This category acknowledges the work of an organization instrumental in taking a promising metals production technology or process, trading platform or software tool and expanding its use or impact. The award recognizes innovators or first movers, as well as those with the perseverance to transform an existing process or make it remarkably better.

Judges will focus on the research, development and commercialization of ingenious and cost effective-ways to enhance one or more of the following key objectives: greater efficiency, higher productivity, better quality and lower environmental impact. The scope of the award ranges from raw materials supply, through primary production and further processing, to the trading and end-user interface.

The independent judging panel will consider any metals production technology or process launched, patented or fundamentally improved since January 2016. Technologies operating in pilot facilities or initial
phases will be considered.
 

Judging Criteria

• Innovation
• Net job growth (projected)
• Results (non-financial)
• Scope
• Technologically proven