Looking for the best in chemical innovation ENTER TODAY. Closing date for entries: 29 June icis.com/awards. Lead sponsor: Category sponsors:

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1 Looking for the best in chemica innovation ENTER TODAY Cosing date for entries: 29 June 2018 icis.com/awards Lead sponsor: Category sponsors:

2 Once again, ICIS is peased and excited to aunch the search for the very best in innovation in the chemica industry Now in their 15th year, the ICIS Innovation Awards seek to recognise and reward companies and individuas that show high eves of innovation in products and processes, as we as providing benefits to the environment and advancing progress towards sustainabiity. The search for innovation exceence is on! ENTER TODAY icis.com/awards The winners wi be those companies that have made significant steps forward in technoogica and business innovation, with tangibe resuts emerging during 2017 and the eary part of this year. ICIS is peased this year to announce that BASF has taken the roe of overa sponsor of the awards. The eading chemica company gobay has an impressive history of innovation and continues to pace huge emphasis on the roe of innovation. BASF has been a winner in the ICIS Innovation Awards on severa occasions and has heped with judging on others. We wecome its decision to support the Awards even further this year. ICIS is aso gratefu for the continued support of Maroon Group (continuing the ong invovement of U.S. Chemicas in the Awards), ExxonMobi Chemica and Accenture as category sponsors. We thank them for their support for the foowing categories, respectivey: Innovation with Best Benefit for the Environment and Sustainabiity, Best Innovation by a Sma or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME), and the Best Product Innovation. To ensure we identify the very best in innovation from the goba chemicas industry, we have enisted a pane of five eading innovation experts from the industry and wider innovation community, who wi seect the winners in each of the four categories and an overa Best Innovation for This award wi be presented by BASF as overa sponsor. ENTRY CATEGORIES To recognise the breadth of innovation in the chemica sector, the ICIS Innovation Awards offer four categories to enter, as detaied beow. Companies may enter as many innovations as they wish, but can enter each innovation into one category ony. Entries shoud contain a 300-word statement outining the innovation and its importance, the science behind it and key advances/issues overcome, and what the main benefits are to the company, the market and the customer, or the environment and sustainabiity. The statement can be supported by upoaded fies containing technica information and presentations, saes & marketing iterature, press reeases and any editoria coverage the innovation has attracted.

3 WHAT TO ENTER There is a choice of four categories to enter: Best Product Innovation sponsored by Accenture The Best Product Innovation category gives entrants a chance to show how innovative they are in the traditiona but sti vita area of product innovation AkzoNobe: Interine 9001 cargo tank advanced coating system 2016 Dow Chemica: Canvera poyoefin dispersions for food and beverage meta can coatings 2015 AkzoNobe: Interseek 1100SR patented anti-sime reease coating for ships hus Best Process Innovation The Best Process Innovation category gives entrants a chance to show how innovative they are in the fundamenta areas of new process deveopment and process improvement vita areas of innovation underying better use of energy and raw materias, improved economics, safer performance and ower environmenta impact Dow Chemica: Fuidised cataytic dehydrogenation process (FCDh) 2016 Siuria Technoogies: Oxidative couping of methane The ICIS nnovation Awards are open to any chemica company or individua, regardess of where they are based. The judges wi be ooking for innovative projects that sove probems or provide soutions for the company entering and/ or its customers, or demonstrate an innovative approach to business, the environment and/or sustainabiity No award made Best Innovation by a Sma or Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) sponsored by ExxonMobi Chemica The Best Innovation by an SME category gives SMEs, that great source and reservoir of innovation, a chance to shine Genomatica: Geno BG - a more natura, sustainabe way to make butyene gyco 2016 Compact Membrane Systems: Membrane separation of oefins and paraffins 2015 Cea Energy: Soid hydrogen Innovation with Best Benefit to Environment and Sustainabiity sponsored by Maroon Group LLC The chemica industry and innovative can pay an important roe in addressing many of today s environmenta concerns, incuding goba warming, poution, recycing, water suppy security and nutrition. The category is designed to recognise those companies that have incorporated the ideas of environmenta performance and sustainabiity into their innovation in the areas of product and process deveopments and approach to business overa. Entries might incude improved manufacturing processes or products that reduce environmenta impact, or new products that tacke the issues above. They shoud show a distinct benefit to the environment and to the sustainabiity of the company and its customers Enerkem: Driving the circuar economy by converting waste to everyday goods 2016 Covestro and CAT Cataytic Center RWTH Aachen: Use of carbon dioxide in the production of pastics 2015 Goba Green Products: Fresh water conservation in the Bakken WHY ENTER? Winners of an award wi: Enjoy extensive editoria coverage in ICIS Chemica Business and ICIS onine Be abe to buid on further pubicity both within their company and externay, reated to their success in the competition Be invited to an Awards unch with the other winners, sponsors and judges ater in the year Receive an active nnovation Awards ogo to host on their web site, promoting their success in the competition. For fu detais on this and previous years ICIS Innovation Awards, go to

4 CATEGORY SPONSOR MAROON GROUP LLC CATEGORY SPONSOR ACCENTURE TAKING PRIDE IN SUSTAINABILITY Maroon Group is a eading distributor of speciaty chemicas and ingredients that vaues sustainabiity and environmenta responsibiity. We take pride in associating with companies that share these vaues as we strive to create success for our customers by suppying safe and consistent products. Through our dedication as a responsibe organisation, we are proud to sponsor, for the 10th consecutive year, the Innovation with Best Benefit to Environment or Sustainabiity category of the ICIS Innovation Awards. Maroon Group is an active member of the Nationa Association of Chemica Distributors (NACD) and hods a Responsibe Distribution (RD) certification. This thirdparty verification of environmenta, heath, safety, and security programmes demonstrates our commitment to continuous performance improvement and responsibe distribution in every phase of chemica storage, handing, transportation, and disposa. As part of our EcoVadis rating, Maroon Group takes a proactive roe in addressing corporate responsibiity and sustainabiity in 21 Environment, Fair Labor Practices, Ethics/Fair Business Practices, and Suppy Chain criteria. Maroon Group has been recognised by the Environmenta Protection Agency (EPA) for our commitment to reduce waste, improve efficiency, and continuousy work to progress as an environmenta steward. About Maroon Group LLC Maroon Group is one of the fastest growing speciaty chemica and ingredient distributors in North America. Our operating verticas focus on end markets which incude CASE, pastics, CARE and speciaty intermediates. We everage a common infrastructure of industry eading technoogy, vaue-add services, goba sourcing and ogistics network, and a commitment to Creating Customer Success. HELPING CHEMICAL COMPANIES TRANSFORM IN A DIGITAL WORLD Accenture is peased to sponsor the Best Product Innovation category of the 2018 ICIS Innovation Awards. In today s business environment, companies need to continuay reinvent themseves. At Accenture, we take an innovation-ed approach to hep cients imagine and invent their future. We are aways ooking ahead to anticipate what s next. We use an innovation-ed approach to hep our cients deveop and deiver disruptive innovations, and to scae them faster. From research, ventures and abs to studios, innovation centres and deivery centres, we hep companies imagine the future and bring it to ife. Accenture s chemica industry group heps chemica companies appy innovation, transformationa strategies and digita enabement for growth, differentiation and superior operations. We have over 30 years of experience working in a segments of the chemica industry incuding basic and intermediate chemicas, poymers, fibres and eastomers, agricutura chemicas, paints and coatings, industria gases, and other speciaty chemicas across the vaue chain. About Accenture Accenture is a eading goba professiona services company, providing a broad range of services and soutions in strategy, consuting, digita, technoogy and operations. Combining unmatched experience and speciaised skis across more than 40 industries and a business functions underpinned by the word s argest deivery network Accenture works at the intersection of business and technoogy to hep cients improve their performance and create sustainabe vaue for their stakehoders. With approximatey 442,000 peope serving cients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the word works and ives. Visit us at CATEGORY SPONSOR EXXONMOBIL CHEMICAL BROAD PORTFOLIO OF EXPERTISE ExxonMobi Chemica is one of the argest chemica companies in the word. Our unique portfoio of commodity and speciaty businesses generates annua saes of more than 24m tonnes of prime products. The commitment by ExxonMobi Chemica to maintain a eadership position in technoogy is fundamenta to our continued success. We have a broad portfoio of proprietary process, product and product appications expertise. Now, more than ever, chemicas are the buiding bocks of modern ife. Chemicas pay a key roe in fieds integra to human progress, incuding transportation, agricuture, pharmaceuticas and medica equipment, as we as efficient manufacturing and packaging of a wide array of consumer goods. As an organisation with technoogica achievements that have enriched the ives of peope everywhere, ExxonMobi Chemica is peased to sponsor the Best Innovation by a Sma or Medium-sized Enterprise category of the 2018 ICIS Innovation Awards.

5 OVERALL SPONSOR BASF WE CREATE CHEMISTRY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE Chemistry has aways been an enaber for innovations in numerous industries as it provides soutions for current and future needs of our society. The number of peope iving on earth is growing. Latest numbers from the UN project amost 10bn peope by 2050 and by then amost 3bn more peope wi ive in cities. Our growing popuation wi need access to affordabe energy, housing, heathcare and quaity food. At the same time, we must strive to consume fewer resources, be it and, water, mineras, or oi. An exampe, each year the area of arabe and on our panet is shrinking by 12m hectares which is about 50% the size of Great Britain. Chemistry is an essentia driver of sustainabiity. And it is innovation in chemistry that wi provide the products and technoogies that wi enabe us to consume ess, be more efficient and produce better products for a peope. A farmer today produces 30 times more food than over 150 years ago when BASF was founded. A unique track record of innovations is what makes up the core of BASF and consequenty, innovation forms the cornerstone of BASF s strategy. Synthetic dyes, ammonia as the basis for fertiizers, poymers as raw materia for insuation foams and packaging, syntheticay produced vitamins, bockbuster fungicides and pant biotechnoogy are just a few exampes. chaenges of our time, and has enjoyed great success in doing so. And we are continuousy working on many more innovations to improve peope s day-to-day ives says Detef Kratz, senior vice president for technoogy and operationa exceence. We woud ike to share this spirit with those who work on innovations in the chemica industry. For this reason, we are honoured to support the ICIS Innovation Awards for the first time and acknowedge the teams and peope behind contributions for a sustainabe future. We are optimistic that briiant minds wi come up with outstanding ideas. We wish a of them great success. About BASF At BASF, we create chemistry for a sustainabe future. We combine economic success with environmenta protection and socia responsibiity. The more than 115,000 empoyees in the BASF Group work on contributing to the success of our customers in neary a sectors and amost every country in the word. Our portfoio is organised into five segments: Chemicas, Performance Products, Functiona Materias & Soutions, Agricutura Soutions and Oi & Gas. BASF generated saes of 64.5bn in BASF shares are traded on the stock exchanges in Frankfurt (BAS), London (BFA) and Zurich (BAS). Further information at As the most innovative company in the chemica industry, BASF has ong been deveoping soutions for the biggest INTRODUCING THE JUDGING PANEL FOR 2018 Pau Bjacek is a principa director and eads Accenture s chemicas and natura resources strategic research. He has more than 25 years of experience in the process industries, incuding project activities in manufacturing, marketing and distribution. Pau reguary writes and presents on topics impacting the chemica industry. He hods a master s degree from the London Schoo of Economics, with a bacheor s degree in chemistry and business. Detef Kratz is senior vice president for corporate technoogy and operationa exceence at BASF. He has worked in eadership positions in both Asia and Europe since joining BASF in He has a PhD in organic chemistry from the University of Heideberg and spent a year as postdoctora feow at the Caifornia Institute of Technoogy in Los Angees. Mike McKenna is chief operating officer for Maroon Group, a North American speciaty chemica and ingredients distributor. He is responsibe for operationa exceence, goba suppy partnerships and marketing and is a member of the company s M&A team. Before joining Maroon Group he worked for Johnson Matthey. Godefroy Motte is a seasoned goba chemica industry executive. After 31 years at Eastman Chemica, utimatey as a member of Eastman s executive board, he created Adriais. His current focus is to work with speciaty chemica companies and the investment industry to create ong term vaue especiay in the acquisition or divestiture process. David Woods is opportunity identification manager, new product patforms, at ExxonMobi Chemica, based in Baytown, Texas, US. He manages the pursuit of new product opportunities.

6 Lead sponsor: Category sponsors: HOW TO ENTER Decide which category you want to enter in the ICIS nnovation Awards Compete the reevant onine appication form that can be found at Use the ink to emai supporting documents to ICIS Cick submit Confirmation of receipt of your entry wi be sent to you by emai. DEADLINE ENTER BY 29 JUNE The deadine for entries is 29 June TIMELINE A shortist of successfu entries in each category wi be pubished in ICIS Chemica Business in August. Winners wi be notified in September, and the announcement of the winners wi be made in ICIS Chemica Business in October. Award presentations wi be made in eary December at a specia unch in a eading London venue. FURTHER INFORMATION If you have any questions about the ICIS Innovation Awards overa, contact John Baker at or john.baker@icis.com.