GSC Award: Minister of Economics, Trade and Industry Prize Sumitomo Chemical Company Limited The Development and Industrialization of the Vapor Phase Beckmann Rearrangement Process for the Production of ƒÃ-Caprolactam
	GSC Award: Minister of Education, Sports, Culture, Science and Technology Prize Yasutaka Ishii, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kansai University Tetsuji Yanami and Tatsuya Nakano, Daicel Chemical Industries, LTD. Development and Industrialization of Novel Environmentally Benign Aerobic Oxidation Method
	GSC Award: Minister of the Environment Prize Yukihiro Kiuchi, Masatoshi Iji, NEC Corporation Hiroshi Suzuki and Hironori Oosuga, Sumitomo Bakelite CO., LTD. Development of Environmentally Friendly Self-Extinguishing Epoxy Resin Compound and Its Application to Electronic Devices