INDA | Lifetime Technical Achievement Award

The INDA Lifetime Technical Achievement Award will recognize an individual whose technical achievements, over a career of 20 years or more, have meaningfully contributed to the growth of the nonwovens industry. This technical professional will have a long history of innovation, INDA involvement, and/or commercial success as noted below:

Lifetime Technical Achievement Award Criteria

Nonwovens-related technical advancements that meaningfully contributed to the growth of the nonwovens industry. Measures of meaningful contribution can include:
- Commercialized technologies
- Commercialized products
- Patent portfolio
- Presentations
- Scholarly publications
- Academic training of nonwovens professionals
- Establishment of nonwoven test standards (ASTM, ISO, INDA/EDANA, etc.)
- Recognition within internal/external organizations for their technical contributions, etc.
Membership in INDA for period of ten or more years
Twenty years or more in a nonwovens-related position

Awards Process

Nominations for both award categories will be submitted via the INDA website.Deadline for submission will generally be three weeks prior to the April TAB meeting.
Nominations that are not selected will remain active for three years from submission date and reviewed each year, with any new or additional information since the prior year.
Nominations for both awards will be reviewed annually at the April TAB meeting.
Each nomination will be reviewed independently for acceptance and successful nominations will achieve positive votes from 75% or more of voting TAB members
The combined maximum awards in a given year will be four, with no more than three awards from a single category – Lifetime Technical Achievement or Lifetime Service.
If the number of successful awards exceeds the maximum (four total, three from one category) noted in point 5, the recipients of the current year awards will be determined as follows:
- Highest percentage of positive votes
- Retired, selecting retirees over those still active in the industry
- TAB Chair & INDA Technical Director will decide a tiebreaker
- If the TAB Chair & INDA Technical Director are unable to decide a tiebreaker, then the INDA President will select the award recipient
Once the award recipients are finalized, they will be notified and asked at which INDA event they would like to be recognized (WOW, RISE®, HYGIENIX™, FILTXPO™, or IDEA®).
Those nominations not chosen for recognition within the current year will be automatically rolled over to the following year for consideration.

Timeline

Complete the Online Nomination Submission

3/27/2023
Deadline for nominations

Online Nomination Submission | 2023 Award

Lifetime Technical Achievement Awards Winners

2022	Richard Knowlson
2021	John F. Poccia III	Johnson & Johnson (retired) and Poccia Consulting LLC
2019	Stephen Chester
2018	Ralph Moody, PE	Berry Global, Inc
2017	Bryan Haynes, Ph.D.	Kimberly-Clark Corporation
2016	Edward (Ed) A. Vaughn, Ph.D.	Clemson University
2015	Thomas W. Federle	The Procter & Gamble Co.
2014	Joseph D. Wahlquist	Rockline Industries
2012	David L. Lunceford	HDK Industries, Inc.
2011	Mike Putnam	Retired, PGI
2010	Terry Young	Procter & Gamble
2009	Benham Pourdeyhimi	North Carolina University
2008	Larry Wadsworth (Academic)	The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
2008	David Newkirk (Industry)	Fiberweb
2007	Kays Chinai	Johnson & Johnson, Rayonier
2006	Ann L. McCormack	Kimberly-Clark Corporation
2006	P.C. Wu	Clopay Plastic Products Company
2005	C.Y. Cheng	Consultant
2004	Mike Morman	Morman Consulting
2003	D.K. Smith	Smith, Johnson & Associates
2002	Subhash Batra	NCRC, NCSU
2002	Jay Sommers	Kimberly-Clark
2001	Robert Brock	Kimberly-Clark
2001	Nick Newman	Consultant