Compuplast® Co-Founder Dr. Jiří Vlček Honored with the Bruce Maddock Award
We are proud to share that both co-founders of Compuplast® have been recognized with the prestigious Bruce Maddock Award by the SPE Extrusion Division.
- In 2025, the award has been presented to Dr. Jiří Vlček.
- In 2017, Dr. John Perdikoulias received this distinguished honor.
This dual recognition highlights the lasting contributions of Compuplast’s founders to the advancement of polymer processing and extrusion technology.
As the Bruce Maddock Award rules say: ”Award recipients are to have contributed significantly to the advancement of single screw extrusion technology or associated processing technology by providing experimental achievements and understanding to the fundamentals of the process. Single-screw processing technologies include but are not limited to solids conveying, melting, mixing, and pumping functions. Associated processing technologies include but are not limited to feed systems, filtration systems, gear pumps, coextrusion, and die systems.”