
With the GTS Ring of Honour, the GTS Executive Board distinguishes persons of merit for their outstanding services to thermal spray technology.
| 1996 | Prof. em. Dr. Hans-Dieter Steffens |
| 2000 | Prof. Dr. techn. Erich Lugscheider |
| 2000 | Dr. Bruno Walser |
| 2002 | Frithjof Zentner |
| 2003 | Prof. em. Dr. Witold Milewski |
| 2005 | Dr. Hartwig Reimann |
| 2006 | Dr. Gerd Kraume |
| 2007 | Albert Kay |
| 2009 | Dieter Grasme |
| 2010 | Prof. Dr. Klaus Landes |
| 2011 | Will Herlaar |
| 2012 | Werner Dien |
| 2012 | Peter Heinrich |
| 2015 | Christopher Wasserman |