May 7, 2021
Nominations are now open for the Jorma Vitkala Award of Merit, through the end of June 2021. The award recognizes contributors that made a significant impact on the development of the international glass industry.
At the Glass Performance Days event in 2017, the Jorma Vitkala Award of Merit was created to recognize outstanding individual contributions to the glass industry. This award was presented to Jorma Vitkala himself as the first-ever recipient at GPD’s 25th anniversary event. The second award was given to the most known glass specialist and lecturer, Prof. James O’Callaghan, in 2019. Every two years, this award will continue to be granted during each GPD opening ceremony to a new recipient who has been selected through an international nomination procedure.