Open to direct and indirect exhibitors registered in the official catalog, the Microns and Nano d'Or awards recognize innovative microtechnology achievements presented for the first time at Micronora. They are awarded by a jury made up of industrialists and researchers active in the field of microtechnology.
In 2022, 4 Golden Microns and 2 Special Jury Mentions were awarded.
The awards ceremony was held on Tuesday, September 27, 2022, after the inauguration of Micronora by Marie-Guite Dufay, President of the Burgundy-Franche-Comté Region, Ludovic Fagaut, President of the French Ministry of Industry, and the President of the French Ministry of Research.er Vice-President of the Doubs Department, Anne Vignot, President of Grand Besançon Métropole and Mayor of Besançon and Thierry Bisiaux, President of Micronora, in the presence of Pascal Vairac, President of the Jury and Jean Verillac, Director of Business and Engineering of the Banque Populaire Bourgogne Franche-Comté, who will present a check for 1,500 euros to each winner.
Golden Micron Winners
Category: Microtechnical components
Vulkam New industrial manufacturing process for more efficient and resilient watch movement parts, based on the thermo-molding of amorphous metal alloys: Vulkalloys.
Category: Microtechnical equipment for production or laboratory machines
Symmetry: Innovative positioning system: the Mauka hexaglide, with its small size, can position loads up to 5 kg with an accuracy of 0.5µm in translation and 5µrad in rotation according to the 6 degrees of freedom.
Category: Production, assembly and measuring/control machines for microtechnical products
Précise France - Pracartis Group : Mini machining center 3-5 axes - the Precibot - takes up the challenge of ensuring a very high precision despite a weight (less than 100 kg) and very small dimensions, while taking into account the current economic and environmental trends.
Category: Micro and nano system demonstrators and prototypes for laboratories
Femto-ST Micro optical tweezers assembled at the end of a stretched optical fiber of 50 µm x 40 µm x 25 µm: first demonstrator of a new generation of nanorobotic structures.
Special Mentions of the Jury
Amada Machinery Europe
System for programming profile grinding operations, reproducible and precise to the µm.
Dixi Polytool
Patented coolant system directly integrated into the tool, allowing the cutting process to be optimized.