The invention fair in Nuremberg presented over 700 individual inventions from 32 countries. Polish inventions were presented at two main stands. Polish inventors presenting their solutions at the Promotion Agency Inventor stand won 4 gold, 9 silver and 2 bronze medals, and at the stand of the Association of Polish Inventors and Innovators - 8 gold, 15 silver and 3 bronze medals.

All of the presented solutions were assigned to one of 23 thematic categories of the three competitions: Students and Young Inventors, Independent Inventors, and Technical Colleges and Universities. In addition, special prizes were also awarded.

Two awards - a gold medal and a special prize (IFIA Glory Medal) - went to the creators from the Industrial Chemistry Research Institute in Warsaw for the development of technology "Hydrometallurgical recovery of materials from waste zinc-carbon and alkaline batteries". Gold medal was also awarded to "Eco-Product - fungicidal, bactericidal cabbage concentrate", prepared at the same institute.

Winners of other gold medals are the inventors of the Institute of Ceramics and Building Materials, who developed a method for producing cement from asbestos waste, bedsore bed from the Textile Research Institute, as well as two inventions of ECOENERGIA: dust swirl burner for burning round biomass and low-emission swirl burner for biomass co-firing with coal in the boiler. The award was also given to a mechanism that improves the ring-ball mill operation from the Institute of Power Systems Automation and a collagen membrane for gum tissue regeneration prepared at the Regional Blood Center in Katowice.

Gold medals were also awarded to the Air Force Institute of Technology for a wind turbine with an internal airflow, to KOMAG Institute of Mining Technology and their farm tractor GAD-1, developed and implemented in partnership with Nafra Polska. The award was given to inventors from the University of Rzeszów, who prepared the solution for degradation of pesticides in soil and other bulk materials using fluidized bed reactor with ozone.

Also awarded a gold medal was the winner of "Innovation is a Woman", Dr. Joanna Ortyl from Cracow University of Technology, who presented the iodonium photoinitiators for cationic polymerization of monomers.

The fair took place on 31 October - 3 November in Nuremberg, Germany. It was the 65th edition of the event. Inventors had the opportunity to present their ideas not only to the jury, but also to investors and industry representatives.

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